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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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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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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 · 19/08/2025

We are using the Doughnut for Urban Development now too.

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

So kind, trying our hardest! X

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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 · 16/05/2025

Lord, 3 hour train with no plug, my battery died trying to scan my ticket.

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Would be really happy to, when are you around in Brum? Or did you want to do it virtually?

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We really lucky to host @grindrod.bsky.social a few years ago at Impact Hub Birmingham ❤️

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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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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

That’s very kind John ❤️

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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 · 11/12/2024

What a gorgeous connection! It didn’t quite work perfectly first time some have disappeared but I totally think we should keep trying 🩷

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

… you just get to wield power in a way that is very colonial rooted. So no, I’m not convinced this works either.

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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

@amahra.bsky.social has always said this. I was just more naive that you can graft together and create the most generous policies, etc. But, nothing is ever really enough, to deal with the systemic reality we are within and the trauma and dishonesty, we all hold in our bodies around what this takes.

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

.. right form for liberation work, or even work that tries to build something new within the current system of English law and corporate organisational culture.

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

… no doubt make you sick, make you have an autoimmune disease, the exposure, the constant responsibility, the dehumanisation, the fact you’ll have to stay quiet and power in, in anything that gets said about you, or even lies. So, if there’s another way, try it first, the organisation isn’t the ..

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

… what organisational structures, balances of risk, responsibility, agency, scarcity of resource and runway, all our unhealed stuff from life, and the lack of honesty of what it really takes when things are extremely hard, and it doesn’t fit neatly into hours or a legal contract, for women it’ll ..

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Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I wouldn’t recommend it for doing anything outside the currents norms or systems or substantially shifting the quality of possibility, manifesting really hard things, unless it’s the absolutely only way to do it — if there’s any other way, try that first, do it first, your soul will get eaten by ..

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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

I trued Reformer Pilates for the first time today. I felt like a hippo on a tightrope.

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