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Episode 88 - Imandeep Kaur & Kavita Purohit - Civic Square - System Changing in the Neighbourhood
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Episode 88 - Imandeep Kaur & Kavita Purohit - Civic Square - System Changing in the Neighbourhood

Thinking systemically, acting from the hood.

In this Episode I’m in conversation with the brilliant Immy Kaur and Kavita Purohit from Civic Square in Birmingham UK.

Civic Square’s mission is demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition.

I’m a huge fan of their work, they are pioneers in the UK when it comes to demonstrating what communities can achieve when it comes to responding to some of the gnarliest, complex systemic issues we face as a species.

They use practical, decentralised approaches translating complex systems change thinking into participative inquiry and co-design projects working with  place based communities alongside diverse practitioners, knowledge and wisdom holders and regenerative innovators.

When the times we are in can feel so overwhelming and mainstream political approaches exhausted, look to Civic Square and their ecology of collaborators for how we might create very different ways of imagining and realising better futures which put people and places at the centre around cultures of care, connection and solidarity.

Thinking systemically, acting from the hood.

We explore

  • Systemic Issues and Community approaches to finding solutions

  • The importance of neighbourhoods and Public Goods

  • Health justice and Ecological health in neighbourhoods

  • Demonstrating radical imagination

  • The role of Doughnut Economics in neighbourhoods

  • Community engagement and co-creation approaches

  • Different ways of knowing, re-pairing and re-imagining

Links

Civic Square

Civic Square Medium

Civic Square Instagram

Neighbourhood Doughnut

Stories for Life

Immy Kaur Twitter

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