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Material Matter[s] Open Sessions

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Practical workshops as part of an ongoing enquiry into how we fundamentally reimagine our relationships with materials and the systems that shape how they are made, distributed, and considered at their ‘end-of-life’ through a lens of material justice.

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Material[s] Matter Series: Exploring & Reimagining Neighbourhood Reuse
Tue 5 Aug, 17:00
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Material Matter[s]: Painting Timber Shingles with Natural Paints Session 2
Thu 31 Jul, 14:00
Free
Material Matter[s]: Painting Timber Shingles with Natural Paints Session 1
Tue 29 Jul, 10:00
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Demonstrating the civic infrastructure that our homes, streets and neighbourhoods need to co-lead social, ecological, economic, and climate transition together.

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Beyond Books

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Beyond Books is a platform where books and other means of sharing stories are used to democratise knowledge, agency and imagination through spaces for reading, lending, purchasing and discussing what books are, have been and could be to us.

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Clay Week-Material Matter[s] x Site As A Classroom

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Three days of hands-on, collective learning exploring the opportunity of local clay in regenerative construction across our homes, streets + neighbourhoods in Birmingham & the West Midlands, rooted in our ecoregion and Building Skills research.

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Ground Lab

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Ground Lab is a shared open enquiry by CIVIC SQUARE, Material Cultures, and all of you who join us, to discover together how we design, construct and steward our homes, streets and neighbourhood(s) in relation to the ground as living infrastructure.

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Re_ Club

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Re_ Club is a regular, welcoming space to share practices of care, repair, creativity and connection in our homes, streets and neighbourhoods to unlock more possibility, more relationships, and more life for the land, materials and people that make them.

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Re:Builders 2025—26

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A growing collective developing practical skills and deepening their knowledge of regenerative construction methods and business strategies, in response to the material and climatic futures we face together. Find out more at: bit.ly/RebuildersWMRetrofit

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Retrofit House: Open House

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Retrofit House opens its doors for a week-long exploration of reimagining retrofit for +3°C futures at the scale of our homes and streets.

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Site As A Classroom Summer Celebration

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Celebrate stories, learnings and progress for care and repair from the Neighbourhood Public Square site and across the neighbourhood so far this year, and explore what becomes more possible when we learn, build, eat, grow, care and organise together.

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Site As A Classroom: Autumn Harvest

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Join us for Site As A Classroom Autumn Harvest Week as we gather to share, learn, and reflect on this year of seeding practices of everyday care and repair, co-builds and open enquiries and pause to prepare for Winter Celebrations and the year ahead.