If you're ready to steward, iterate and socialise regenerative, distributive-by-design financial systems, as part of an ambitious capital project where many kinds of value are generated and shared, you could be the Financial Systems Lead we're looking for: bit.ly/FinanceCS

What will life be like in Cardiff in 2100? Using speculative fiction to explore the future linkedin.com/posts/professo… Institute of Welsh Affairs National Infrastructure Commission for Wales Derek Walker Future Gen Cymru Geography & Planning

Really enjoyable development day with Ireland u17s⚽️⚽️

Had such a wonderful welcome & experienced great hospitality with WeCanMake already in Bristol. So excited by what they are doing with their Playbox already on site. Entranced by the blue they have chosen. Day 2 will be playful prototyping & onsite play with residents

So many reflections from working with WeCanMake team & melissa mean in Bristol. What an amazing organisation committed to making places for people, sustainable community led homes. The depth of care & connection is felt in every tiny interaction.

Beautiful to spend time with PlayfulAnywhere in Bristol. So much joyful resonance between our creative & place based practices 😍🤩😍 Massive THANK YOU for your generous wisdom. A very nice start to exploring what we could create, make, seed together…… 👀🤘

If you have missed out on our programme with Material Cultures, but would like to get hands on with natural materials, in community, and discover their incredible possibilities, healing powers, and connect around our neighbourhoods plans for the future site CIVIC SQUARE, there

The government is neglecting community-led housing as a source of homes in which people can live healthy, thriving, and well-connected lives. ✍️ 🏘️ Read our latest post on why and how the government should support the community-led sector: nationwidefoundation.org.uk/our-proposals-…

Brilliant to have local MP & Climate Minister Kerry McCarthy visit WeCanMake KWMC: The Factory We shared our Retrofit Street demonstrator project; talked all things biomaterials, renewable energy & how people-led retrofit can bring joy to the climate agenda 😁 #retrofitreimagined

As we start to turn more intentionally towards our retrofit street demonstrator and Neighbourhood Public Square next phases CIVIC SQUARE, we are opening up another collective journey looking to learn alongside the construction industry in the West Midlands who are looking to

The line up for next week from the 3rd - 8th September is looking sublime, there’s far too many people to tag but here’s a few Indy Johar, Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C———, Anasuya Gupta, Jack Minchella, Alys Fowler, seetal solanki, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith, Akil Scafe-Smith and so many more, but come and join to

Join us at the CIVIC SQUARE site for a week filled with food, play, learning, making, talks and more as we disassemble the research, design principles, material possibilities and more for the Neighbourhood Public Square to organise and prototype together. eventbrite.co.uk/o/civic-square…

Enough dystopian science-fiction! We also need some positive, but still gritty, visions of the future. In this piece I explore some ‘ambiguous utopias’ in sci-fi novels pmadden.medium.com/positive-futur…

Looking forward to being with friends CIVIC SQUARE on Thursday 🌞come along if you can!

🚨 Grenfell Inquiry report 🚨 - "Complacent" govt "well aware" of risk of cladding disaster but failed to act - "Systematic dishonesty" by product manufacturers "very significant reason" for fire - "Chronic and systemic" fire safety failures by tower's social landlords

And while there is some good in the recommendations, they also feel a little short of the transformative force the evidence seemed to demand. This was such a root and branch failure, it feels like it merits much more. But perhaps that was always beyond the scope of an inquiry

The dark heart of this catastrophe lies in this simple, depressing narrative: the state stepped back, corporate greed stepped in and innocent people died. Bit by me for The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🍂You’re invited to our ‘hood meet ups! Whether you’re new to the community or have been involved since the beginning, we invite you to join us to get creative, use your hands, and discover new connections through the craft and graft of making together. Tinyurl.com/autumn-meetups

Join me at 11am for the screening of Outgrow the System and workshop, as we open up the convo about our economic system at the scale of our neighbourhoods: what would alternatives look + feel like? what would be happening, how would they operate + how do we move towards that?