Civic Square

Civic Square grew out of a deep, practical and experimental approach at Impact Hub Birmingham. It has three key areas for the next decade:

Public Square – CIVIC SQUARE will co-design and co-build spaces at the heart of the neighbourhood for meeting, connecting, creating, working, and dreaming together; to find support, give support, learn, grow, build and experiment. It will trade money, skills and time. It will be designed to be regenerative, flexible, adaptable, open and sustainable, acting as a local economic multiplier. It will co-create social infrastructure, and be home to practical resources and physical spaces for making, cooking, working, growing, and playing, with a purpose-built home developed by and for children and families, known as BABHaus.

Neighbourhood Economics Lab – CIVIC SQUARE will launch a new partnership with Dark Matter Laboratories and Doughnut Economics Action Lab, working together as a wider ecosystem to test and experiment with bold ideas in practice, co-build these ideas with local residents, create practical tools in a neighbourhood setting that can be spread and changed to context, building on local and indigenous expertise and connecting ambitious global thinking, wisdom and practice.

Creative and Participatory Ecosystem – Alongside many long-standing, recent and future partners CIVIC SQUARE will grow a platform that creates ever-changing entry points for bridging across people’s everyday experiences and imaginations, their inspirations and what captivates them, democratising our collective capacity to dream as we work together over the long term to create the future.