CIVIC SQUARE

CIVIC adj. about the city; relating to municipal administration; the duties or activities of people in relation to their place SQUARE n. a large open area traditionally found at the heart of a town; used for community gatherings; a place where people come together to meet; often home to markets, concerts, shops and cafes CIVIC SQUARE is demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social and ecological transition, together with many people and partners in Ladywood, Birmingham UK. Principally, we are working to share practically and openly how the climate transition and retrofit of our homes and streets can be designed, owned and governed by the people who live there now in systemic, tangible and participatory ways. This is through organising around three interconnected neighbourhood system demonstrators: Neighbourhood Doughnut – a 21st century compass for ecologically safe and socially just neighbourhoods Neighbourhood Transitions – street-based systemic demonstration of carbon, energy and ecological built environment transitions Neighbourhood Public Square – co-building and democratising access to the spaces, tools and resources for a distributed and regenerative transition, held in the common for the neighbourhood