Welcome To Site As A Classroom
Schedule
Tue May 28 2024 at 10:00 am to Thu May 30 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
CIVIC SQUARE Birmingham CIC | Birmingham, EN
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Fun-filled hands-on days to make, build, learn, play and imagine together, as we manifest possibilities for the Neighbourhood Public Square.About this Event
Join us Tuesday 28th — Thursday 30th May for three fun-filled hands-on days of making, building, learning, playing and imagining during Summer Half Term, as we invite you to share in the next part of the story for CIVIC SQUARE as a physical site together.
A welcoming cuppa at The Floating Front Room and the return of our Neighbourhood Quests await you, alongside a range of Skills For Transition classes and creative activities to connect with neighbours of all ages, spend time with inspiring practitioners, and practice postures of collective learning, wonder, and open sharing.
Through the week, we will be transforming the on site polytunnel together with our friends at MJM Bespoke and JB Solar, and here we can start to discover and manifest possibilities for the future of the Neighbourhood Public Square, along with our homes, streets and the wider neighbourhood, in the here and now. From building water capture systems and honing tool skills to create planters, to learning about how solar panels could power the neighbourhood, there will be lots to discover, test and create together as we explore big ideas in practical, tangible ways, with a role for everyone, and no previous experience required.
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Skills For Transition
We know the practices we need to meet future challenges and abundant possibilities ahead for our neighourhoods are not just technical ones. How we take care of and relate to each other, the land beneath our feet, and the materials we (re)use not only inherently matters to us as people, but will fundamentally shape what becomes possible together for this site, and the future of our neighbourhood(s) more broadly. Therefore, how we unlock, trade and respectfully distribute our existing knowledges and wisdom, as well as all gaining new skills, capabilities, and confidences is vital for our collective goal of thriving, ecologically safe and socially just futures for everyone in the neighbourhood, as well as our kin across the world. There will be many ways to rehearse this together this week and in all that lies ahead.
This is embedded at the heart of how we are designing Neighbourhood Public Square as both a regenerative physical building and layered civic and social infrastructure, informed by and to support many different kinds of learning, relating, exchanging, and flows of value for the climate transition and retrofit of our homes and streets to be designed, owned and governed by the people who live there; an ongoing enquiry that we look forward to exploring in more detail in a range of different ways together in the short, medium and long term.
Come along to this month's Neighbourhood Supper Club for a more in depth update about Neighbourhood Public Square, and find out how we work together towards the shared goal of retrofitting the Icknield Port Loop site to be held in common for the neighbourhood for generations to come.
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About Site As A Classroom
Ongoing as a foundational multi-faceted practice in the years and decades ahead, establishing the Site As A Classroom together will be a way we can continue the collective practice of learning in a myriad of ways throughout the process of putting the land into a neighbourhood covenant for social-ecological benefit, and the deep retrofit and co-build of the Neighbourhood Public Square, including what we need to collectively learn, decide, and practice around how it is designed, built, stewarded and financed. As a working site, it will continue to be an active evolving demonstrator for its lifetime for all who live, work, visit, play, learn and grow here, with near limitless potential opportunities to share and learn on site, as well as what we can demonstrate and make possible for many other neighbourhoods around the world together, for future generations to pick up and take further.
This builds on so many experiences we’ve shared with you all, including Doughnut Economics Peer-To-Peer Learning Journeys, Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhood Trade School, Retrofit Reimagined, learning from Centre For Alternative Technology, The Rediscovery Centre, Le Magasin Électrique, Ubele Initiative, Freedom & Balance, and countless others, and we openly invite you to bring your own examples for us to continually study and build upon practically together.
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Where is it happening?
CIVIC SQUARE Birmingham CIC, Rotton Park Street, Birmingham, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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