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