After more than 10 years of organising in their home city, CIVIC SQUARE are actively working on site to co-build Neighbourhood Public Square as an significant demonstrator, orientating development and construction towards the many layers of redesign required for regenerative civic infrastructure at the heart of our neighbourhoods.
Together with many people and partners they are reimagining land stewardship, finance, and governance, as well as deeply committing to ecological building design, bio-based material retrofit, and acting in an infrastructural capacity to enable wider built environment transition.
Neighbourhood Public Square will democratise access to the spaces, tools and resources for our homes, streets and neighbourhoods to be at the forefront of their own social, ecological, economic and climate transition in ways that are bold, imaginative, distributed and held in common for generations.
Whilst rooted in place, CIVIC SQUARE are working openly to discover and share new forms of public goods to meet the challenges and opportunities that our neighbourhoods will face now and in the future, as part of a wider ecosystem of interconnected movements at local, national and global scales.
To do this, they simultaneously continue to develop, maintain and build out three interconnected system demonstrators, all born directly out of their work so far:
Neighbourhood Public Square
Co-building and democratising access to the spaces, tools, resources and infrastructure that neighbourhoods need to co-lead the social, ecological, economic and climate transition of the 21st century, through a significant demonstrator and capital project for the many layers of regenerative redesign around land stewardship, finance, governance, building design and more.
Neighbourhood Doughnut
A 21st century compass to orient us to the scale of challenge and opportunity in the face of interconnected challenges, democratising knowledge, data, and collective neighbourhood research practices grounded in the everyday as we mobilise around shared metrics for social and ecological flourishing.
Neighbourhood Transitions
A street- based systemic demonstration of carbon, energy, ecological, and built transitions that are designed, owned and governed by the people who live there, going beyond a single household approach to retrofit and into designing from the starting point of our streets as living systems, where agency to meet challenges is highest.