Catriona Rawsthorne
@Catraws
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doughnut economics researcher with @CIVIC_SQUARE
Manchester, UK
Joined December 2018
Love @michaelsheen, but to say @BankJobPictures pioneered this work on very little resources, the original film is excellent and it’s really sad to see not any reference to Dan, Hilary the brilliant late great @davidgraeber and many others who featured and pulled such a shift.
Make sure you're watching Channel 4 at 9pm this evening for @michaelsheen's new documentary. Sheen pays off £1m of debt using £100k of his own money, and calls on government to take action through a Fair Banking Act. https://t.co/iUKehoBB1p
#FairBankingForAll @FBfACampaign
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V excited to share this one, with all its care, joy + possibility that runs through the work of our partners Material Cultures. Interested in bio-based opportunities in theWest Mids; or the types of methodologies that can facilitate a bio-based material transition in our n'hoods?
Building Skills is a new report by Material Cultures, situating social and ecological possibilities and context for the retrofit of the Neighbourhood Public Square at @CIVIC_SQUARE. In part it shares an ecoregional mapping of Birmingham + West Midlands. https://t.co/cx4oxm7xgx
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New data highlights some Social Landlords have a very large proportion of their homes failing to meet quality standards. Over 60% of Birmingham City Council and Railway HA homes fail the decent home standard.Huge. Worst offenders are LAs (perhaps they have more robust surveys?)
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Working in partnership with business, can only happen if government is clear on what the goals are (e.g. health for all, net zero), and then works with business to make that happen, through collective investment, designing contracts that socialize BOTH risks and rewards. In my
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Labour should forge a new settlement that prioritises the common good over private profit.
I'm determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets. This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses, like @BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment.
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We all need more this!
December 22nd. A Christmas Party for London. It’s been a tough year. We can all do with a positive atmosphere dancing to good music. Songs you know, songs you don’t know. If you are in need the £1 ticket is for you. Students, Parents, NHS, Teachers, Rough Patch, Musicians,
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“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber
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So much heaviness in global politics this week, it was energising to be in a space clearly stretching imaginations + creating new economic possibilities from individual to systemic, city-wide scales, in enabling the generous distribution of skills, know how, materials + tools
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After a presentation by their Project Lead Debbie Ward, + a site tour with Paul+Kirsty (@WoodSaints), we reintroduced the Doughnut Economics framework, vision and tools, and used the Four Lenses to sense-make our learnings and rehearse interconnected, systemic thinking
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The Reuse Hub, a collaboration between @WoodSaints and the Rebuild Site, intercepts timber and other surplus materials from construction sites and across the construction supply chain, enabling reuse of these materials at their highest use value for as long as possible!
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Beautiful (Local) Global Doughnut Day here at @CIVIC_SQUARE today, as part of our 'spotlighting the new economy' where we went to visit our region's incredible (recently opened) Reuse Hub Wolverhampton with our neighbours...
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Demonstrations of how retrofit can enable us to reimagine the existing fabric of our cities, from infrastructures in service of vast industrial production to those which service the needs (social and ecological) of our time
Spain is creating some of the best public architecture in the world right now Conversion of a 1905 factory into 46 social housing apartments and public facilities in Barcelona By Roldán + Berengué
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In conversation this evening in Birmingham about #HistoryforTomorrow with one the great intellectual pioneers of our time @indy_johar Join us at @CIVIC_SQUARE #BeyondBooks
https://t.co/zN9HRjOKw0
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Join us for a day of provocations and conversations exploring what we can learn from our history about the changes we can make today.
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Organising ABUELOS (23-26 Oct) invites you into a collective enquiry that informs how ABUELOS becomes real. Read more about ABUELOS’ structural layers, what we’re organising around and what's shaping the curation of the programme here:
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In 2024, the MAIA team are making a fundamental shift, to step into the next stages of making transformative cultural infrastructure…
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“This is where the craft and graft of imagining and making new economic futures is best situated — close to the action and very much with the people and places that have a stake in those better futures.” https://t.co/rhzTpwEWTt
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Using community-owned tech to create a different kind of future
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📢📢 ANNOUNCING 📢📢 Organising ABUELOS 23-26 October 2024 We're creating ABUELOS, a cultural centre with accommodation. Join us as we prepare for a community space in which culture, radical hospitality and architecture are crafted to meet the moment. https://t.co/7jSXgOfnVb
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What can we learn from our shared history that could inspire solutions to the most urgent challenges facing humanity today? Explore this with a day of immersive workshops with @KarberryK, @natcphd and @aliyahhasinah, finishing off the day with an evening dinner connecting over
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Our afternoon workshops include: @natcphd - Reform Ain’t Abolition: Lessons from Birmingham’s Struggle Against Slavery @aliyahhasinah - Surfacing Lessons From Our Histories @KarberryK - Consumed by Connection: Unpacking The Stories Embedded in the Supply Chains Around Us
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In #HistoryforTomorrow @romankrznaric says “Other futures are possible”. He joins us in Birmingham next week for an in conversation with @indy_johar. #BeyondBooks
https://t.co/nHRiwFLLhd
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