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Imandeep Kaur

@immykaur.bsky.social
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Co - Founder @CIVIC_SQUARE, prev aka Impact Hub Birmingham || @TEDxBrum 2012 - 2017 || Hon Doc. @AstonUniversity ||

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How’s everyone doing, how’s it going over here?
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I miss Twitter. I am going to try more here. Still gutted 10 years of Twitter following and community just dead.
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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great project in Birmingham: “you will build foundational joinery skills, work directly with materials to understand the value of alternative construction materials and processes” Public Square microfactory co-build Regenerative building technology with MJM Bespoke + Material Cultures
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🪵 Co-Builders: Reclaimed Timber Partition Wall 🛠️ Tues 29th + Wed 30th Sept 🕣 9.30am—4.30pm 🏭 Neighbourhood Public Square, Rotton Park Street, B16 0AB 👥 Ages 16+ | No previous experience required 🎟️ bit.ly/WallCoBuild You are warmly invited to a practical co-build on the CIVIC SQUARE site ❤️
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I wrote a book! A whole, real, actual book! Ada Limón, genius poet, said nice things about it! As did other absolute heroes! And now it's in libraries and bookstores in several countries! Be careful what you wish for, it might turn out awesome bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
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Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
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Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻‍♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Great to see this article highlighting Birmingham’s Retrofit House 🌿 eco-friendly, skills-sharing, and full of grassroots innovation 💚 @civicsquare.bsky.social @immykaur.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘It’s about quality of life’: Can Birmingham’s Retrofit House help fix the UK’s terrible housing?
From flood protection and encouraging wildlife to fixing doors and reducing fuel bills, a new initiative aims to empower residents and make their homes more comfortable
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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 12/06/2026
“By design, we dismantled our public infrastructure in the UK” “We need to unlock the creativity, skills and imagination of everyone to create a regenerative future collectively.” “We don’t need to repeat imperial practice from the past to flourish” – @immykaur.bsky.social at #FutureDays #FD26
A woman with darker skin tone in a denim outfit standing on stage in light flooded modern building in front of a large crowd, a massive screen behind her shows 3 posters with photographs, headlines says “neighbour public square”, “neighbourhood doughnut”, “neighbour transitions”
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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 12/06/2026
“90% of what we need is there” “But how come incredibly amazing community projects aren’t able to survive?” “Do we lack the imagination?” “We need to luck at power, finance, land ownership and civic stewardship” – @immykaur.bsky.social in a #FD26 panel discussion with @christianbason.bsky.social
3 people sitting on a stage in front of a massive screen saying “all together now: co-creating neighbourhoods” and their names: Floor Kuitert, Imandeep Kaur, and Christian Bason
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Looking at the work through social value, it’s not about how many people use the building but how much knowledge can you embed locally through turning everything into a learning opportunity" www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Kudos @immykaur.bsky.social
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‘It’s about quality of life’: Can Birmingham’s Retrofit House help fix the UK’s terrible housing?
From flood protection and encouraging wildlife to fixing doors and reducing fuel bills, a new initiative aims to empower residents and make their homes more comfortable
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The systemic risks of underperforming housing. From a (predictably) fab set of slides on Civic Square by @immykaur.bsky.social docs.google.com/presentation...
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I saw @raechelkelly.bsky.social today on a train platform and got to spend 3 hilarious and unexpected hours together. Going to try Blue Sky for real now.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of the best things I’ve read all year.
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The Texture of Quality
A Play in Ten Acts by Kenneth Mikkelsen
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of the best things I’ve read all year.
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The Texture of Quality
A Play in Ten Acts by Kenneth Mikkelsen
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“We must root ourselves back in the land; the way the land speaks to us; the way we build on the land; the way that the land can nurture us, and the way the land nurtures itself.” —Abdi Hassan www.instagram.com/reel/DICsBsp...
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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Just read another post about Nick Booth - this one by Kate Cooper.
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Nick Booth: A dear friend and a wonderful colleague – Birmingham Food CouncilBirmingham Food CouncilSearchFacebookTwitterInstagramBirmingham Food CouncilFacebookTwitterInstagram
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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sad to read the news about @podnosh.bsky.social in this post by @danslee.bsky.social. Nick was one of the early pioneers of social media across charities and local government.
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Remembering Nick Booth
Last week, I heard that Nick Booth had died and as with so many others who knew him even slightly, it stopped me in my tracks. A couple of weeks before I’d heard that Ben Whitehouse had also passed…
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For years I’d managed to avoid the work WhatsApp group life, and tried to keep phone as private as possible. Why is everyone organising on WhatsApp again professionally, please can we use Slack. It’s too much, even if you mute, there’s still stuff constantly.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
But in my experience, there is always one essential ingredient: scrappy people who are willing to work backward from goals that seem impossibly ambitious at the start — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
But in my experience, there is always one essential ingredient: scrappy people who are willing to work backward from goals that seem impossibly ambitious at the start — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
'I thought about it in my head and I felt it in my heart and I longed for it to happen with all of my body and soul , but I made it with my hands.' — Rob Ryan
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The greatest weariness comes from work not done. Eric Hoffer
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The Warehouse - Birmingham Friends of the Earth @inthewarehouse.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We used to have a cartoon that said "Everything I didn't do yesterday plus everything I haven't done today plus everything I won't do tomorrow completely exhausts me". Always rang true.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The greatest weariness comes from work not done. Eric Hoffer
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The post office (+ public libraries) are 🌟. We *could* think so much more capaciously + creatively about what they can be! Check out our Local Media lesson on post offices (relevant slides start @ 48): localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/p... And this recent talk is about civic institutions:
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Shannon Mattern, “Civic Adjacencies” - Events - e-flux
e-flux Architecture Lectures
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Excited to share a new report by Material Cultures, situating social and ecological possibilities and context for the retrofit of the Neighbourhood Public Square at @civicsquare.bsky.social. In part it shares an ecoregional mapping of Birmingham + West Midlands, + much more. bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Excellent work. I was part of a group in Birmingham, UK (cc: @immykaur.bsky.social) that similarly created and distributed benches throughout the neighborhood. Just saw one still in place this morning!
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
When I sit on my boards the position makes you feel so powerful, because you get to just say stuff to people delivering with no responsibility in reality for whether it’s actually possible, you don’t actually hold the risk and if you do, you then stop anything transformative or really risky ..
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Friends, organisers, movement of peeps organising together, shifting to the organisational logic is not for the faint hearted. I also really think that the amount of things you have to hold on, not say what happened in reality, causes illness, the performative nonsense, is exactly that nonsense.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“I want the separation between the expression of politics in the gallery & the practice of politics in life to disappear. I want the institution to understand: if you want us inside you need to listen to us outside. Ceasefire now, arms embargo now free Palestine.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Jasleen Kaur wins the Turner prize 2024
The competition’s youngest contestant scoops the award for animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and community
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I trued Reformer Pilates for the first time today. I felt like a hippo on a tightrope.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Excited to share a new report by Material Cultures, situating social and ecological possibilities and context for the retrofit of the Neighbourhood Public Square at @civicsquare.bsky.social. In part it shares an ecoregional mapping of Birmingham + West Midlands, + much more. bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 08/12/2024
Reading back meeting notes from ten years ago, and it’s still all funding uncertainty and insufficient time to think and plan, even when we were 20% as big as we are today. Fifteen years of running an NGO come February and it’s a run in a hamster wheel, the wheel just gets bigger.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“We're off track against where we should be - and that's things like flood defences, or are our houses built on flood plains? In the summer are our cities ready for extreme heat? These basic things” Good to see Emma Pinchbeck settled in at the CCC and making clear the need for climate adaptation
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UK 'not ready' for extreme weather, says climate change head
The head of the Climate Change Committee calls on the government to invest in adaptations now.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It’s a privilege to be responsible for something. I’d take responsibility over motivation any day.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Directorship in this field isn’t about how skilled you are alone, it’s really honestly just about how much responsibility and risk you’re willing to be responsible for in this current system.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
BlueSky making liberals feel safer not just because Twitter went to shit, but they can more Gaza / Palestinians even more here.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I may - cough - just be finishing our submission to the Industrial Strategy, and am v struck by how small a part Net Zero plays in the doc and the question set. Reminded of comment by @immykaur.bsky.social asking why everyone isn't just *opening their eyes* and looking at what's happening outside.
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Melissa Mean @melissamean.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Well this is turning into a pretty ok space to be :) Hello EVERYONE If you're seeking more #HopeInTheDark (gratitude & citations to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) - here's a starterpack of place-based changemakers who're making some of those better futures we all hope for happen. go.bsky.app/6BNBPgg
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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just spotted in Harborne: a well looked after Impact Hub Brum Kickstarter tote bag 💛 I don’t think I know the owner. @immykaur.bsky.social
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Made another highly specific apology card.
A red dog painting with the caption “Sorry I didn’t mention you on my Bluesky starter pack
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WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
... and we harness the power of making to bring people together. Join us next Thursday at our monthly neighbourhood meet up to hear more about our work, make together, and connect with us and our wider ecosystem of partners (most of whom aren't on here yet!) tinyurl.com/21nov-retrofit
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WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up
Re-imagine, remake and retrofit your home, street and neighbourhood!
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WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
... we co-design and make tangible infrastructure with local people that creates space for shared community life through projects like the Front Garden Retrofit Kit: wecanmake.org/builds/library-of-social-infrastructure
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Library of social infrastructure - WeCanMake
The Library of Social Infrastructure supports communities to retrofit their front gardens to create space for nature and neighbourliness.
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WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
... we retrofit existing homes using biomaterials, and our expanded approach to "retrofit" creates opportunities to activate streets and 'hoods in ways that are beneficial for people and the planet. We're hosting an evening about this on Thurs 21 Nov – come find out more! tinyurl.com/21nov-retrofit
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WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up
Re-imagine, remake and retrofit your home, street and neighbourhood!
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WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
... build new homes using modern methods of construction, meaning we can bring local people into the process and keep jobs, skills and the value of development within the local neighbourhood. The film on our website explains a little more: wecanmake.org
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WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi, we're WeCanMake and we've joined the exodus from that other platform... WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test space in south Bristol, imagining and making low-carbon homes that grow social infrastructure and community wealth in the process. Operating out of a community microfactory, we... 🧵
Image of people standing outside a community factory, smiling and brandishing tools.
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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Is it finally time to come over here? Hey there BlueSky, will you feel like the early days of Twitter?
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