Imandeep Kaur
@immykaur.bsky.social
Co - Founder @CIVIC_SQUARE, prev aka Impact Hub Birmingham || @TEDxBrum 2012 - 2017 || Hon Doc. @AstonUniversity ||
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Imandeep Kaur
@immykaur.bsky.social
· Dec 17
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
"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
‘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
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"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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The systemic risks of underperforming housing. From a (predictably) fab set of slides on Civic Square by @immykaur.bsky.social docs.google.com/presentation...
May 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The systemic risks of underperforming housing. From a (predictably) fab set of slides on Civic Square by @immykaur.bsky.social docs.google.com/presentation...
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.
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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One of the best things I’ve read all year.
The Texture of Quality
A Play in Ten Acts by Kenneth Mikkelsen
substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One of the best things I’ve read all year.
One of the best things I’ve read all year.
The Texture of Quality
A Play in Ten Acts by Kenneth Mikkelsen
substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One of the best things I’ve read all year.
“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
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—Abdi Hassan
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April 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“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
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—Abdi Hassan
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Just read another post about Nick Booth - this one by Kate Cooper.
Nick Booth: A dear friend and a wonderful colleague – Birmingham Food CouncilBirmingham Food CouncilSearchFacebookTwitterInstagramBirmingham Food CouncilFacebookTwitterInstagram
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April 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just read another post about Nick Booth - this one by Kate Cooper.
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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.
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…
danslee.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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.
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.
January 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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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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
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
January 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
January 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
'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
December 30, 2024 at 10:00 PM
'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
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
December 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
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.
December 18, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
December 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
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:
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:
December 17, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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:
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:
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
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
bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
December 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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
bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
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!
December 11, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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!
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 ..
December 10, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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 ..
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.
December 10, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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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“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...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:37 AM
“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...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
"We map materials, manufacturers and processes that can support our site to embody and work towards social, ecological, and material justice in and beyond our neighbourhood"
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
bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
December 10, 2024 at 7:37 AM
I trued Reformer Pilates for the first time today. I felt like a hippo on a tightrope.
December 10, 2024 at 1:12 AM
I trued Reformer Pilates for the first time today. I felt like a hippo on a tightrope.
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
bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
December 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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
bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
Reposted by Imandeep Kaur
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.
December 8, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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.