Place-Based System Change

CIVIC SQUARE is demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic and climate transition together with many people and partners in Ladywood, Birmingham UK.

Principally they are working to demonstrate how the climate transition and deep retrofit of our homes, streets and neighbourhoods can be designed, owned and ... See more

It is easy to generalize “community” as any group of people with shared interests, or as structures, digital tools, or events. For us, the essence of community is relationships of care, held together by a sense of kinship and mutual support.

Vernacular, in these contexts, no longer indexes a rigid traditionalism but a space of possibility that could be articulated to creative projects integrating vernacular forms, concrete places and landscapes, ecological restoration, and environmental and digital technologies in order to deal with serious problems of livelihood while reinvigorating c

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Adaptation and resilience will have to be revisited through the creation of grounded, situated, and pervasive design capacity by communities themselves who are bound together through culture and a common will to survive when confronted with threatening conditions, not by global experts, bureaucrats, and geoengineers who can only recommend the busin

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