CIVIC SQUARE

The Physical Infrastructure Design of Neighbourhood Public Square will make 3ºC Neighbourhood and Endowing The Future tangible through co-building regenerative, distributive-by-design neighbourhood civic infrastructure at the heart of Ladywood, Birmingham. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

We are excited to share that, after 6 years of dreaming, designing, rehearsing, and building together with you all, the first planning application for the @CIVIC_SQUARE Neighbourhood Public Square site (2026/01280/PA) is now live. bit.ly/ExplorePlannin…

What if the climate transition and retrofit of our homes and streets were designed, owned and governed by the people who live there? Let us see the challenge, and be great enough to rise to it courageously, boldly and tangibly together in the here and now: bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

We extend our overwhelming appreciation to every person who has joined us along the journey, from Impact Hub Birmingham, TEDxBrum, @__TheFrontRoom; every neighbour, peer, practitioner we have been honoured to learn with and build alongside so far to here. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

We humbly share this as part of our wider Neighbourhood Public Square publication as we shape regenerative neighbourhood civic infrastructure designed to democratise access to the spaces, tools and resources for a bold, imaginative, distributed transition. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

Our design team is comprised of long-term partners @00ecosystem with new commissions from Material Cultures and @ArchitypeUK, actively seeking opportunities to work with partners and investors committed to regenerative transition for the built environment. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

Key spaces in the Neighbourhood Public Square include a microfactory and materials lab, cafe and community kitchen, library, and town hall, designed for social-ecological co-benefits and drawing on what matters to people locally and best practice globally. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

The phasing of Neighbourhood Public Square will prioritise a working site with immediate co-benefits for the neighbourhood; from community energy generation through the site as a power station, to distributed learning together with the site as a classroom. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

Building on 5 years of learning, experimenting and co-creating in the neighbourhood, within a longer arc in the city, we will take an open, creative, participatory approach to the planning process, inspired by projects like Phoenix Housing in Lewes + more. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

This is first and foremost a structural story of the civic infrastructure we all need, in service of the wider transformations that we must continue fighting for, locally and across the world. As our friends at @HJusticeLdn remind us; we get free together. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

Neighbourhood Public Square will reuse existing structures, utilise biomaterials from our ecoregion and minimise energy consumption to cultivate circular regenerative supply chains that enable the wider built environment transition of the neighbourhood. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

Founded upon a @DoughnutEcon-inspired land covenant that enshrines the social and ecological provision of the site in perpetuity, the land and infrastructure of Neighbourhood Public Square will be held in common, designed to distribute many kinds of value. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

The Physical Infrastructure Design of Neighbourhood Public Square will make 3ºC Neighbourhood and Endowing The Future tangible through co-building regenerative, distributive-by-design neighbourhood civic infrastructure at the heart of Ladywood, Birmingham. bit.ly/PublicSquareDe…

We humbly share this as part of our Neighbourhood Public Square publication as we shape physical infrastructure for challenges + abundant possibilities ahead, including what climate modelling means for the criticality of neighbourhood civic infrastructure. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

Building on @DoughnutEcon's foundational work + our #NeighbourhoodDoughnut demonstrator, we utilise The Doughnut For Urban Development as an operational tool to discern strategic interventions that will have the most multi-layered + generative co-benefits. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

Alongside confronting the consequences of a warmer planet, we need to actively reimagine how our neighbourhoods and economies function. We invite you to hold these tensions with us. This work is absolutely not an acceptance or endorsement of a +3ºC future. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

Immediate action to adapt to global temperature rises are necessary but only dealing with climate breakdown on a symptomatic level will create new industries of growth + extraction that exacerbate historic violence whilst feeding local + global injustices. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

An increase of +3ºC by 2100 pushes us far beyond global tipping point thresholds, threatening food supply, energy security + destabilising the global economy. We need to be aware of + prepare for the worst whilst building towards a new more hopeful future. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

3ºC Neighbourhood is a new piece of research co-authored by @CIVIC_SQUARE @DarkMatter_Labs on the risks UK urban neighbourhoods face due to climate + ecological breakdown under a high emissions scenario, likely resulting in +3ºC average global temperature. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

We humbly share this work openly as part of our ongoing collective learning and building together, to invite inspiration, deliberation, and critique and to accelerate our navigation the interdependencies of achieving material, climate and social justice. bit.ly/NeighbourhoodPS

Globally, the built environment and infrastructure sector are driving 30% of all species loss. Resource depletion within a linear economy pushes the extractive frontier ever further, worsening contamination and destruction of life. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3