doughnut economics researcher with @CIVIC_SQUARE
Joined December 2018
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
10 Mar 2025
Love @michaelsheen, but to say @BankJobPictures pioneered this work on very little resources, the original film is excellent and it’s really sad to see not any reference to Dan, Hilary the brilliant late great @davidgraeber and many others who featured and pulled such a shift.
10 Mar 2025
Make sure you're watching Channel 4 at 9pm this evening for @michaelsheen's new documentary.
Sheen pays off £1m of debt using £100k of his own money, and calls on government to take action through a Fair Banking Act.
fairbankingforall.org/
#FairBankingForAll @FBfACampaign
ALT An image of Michael Sheen speaking to the camera, with text saying "I want to be able to force change on the system" @FBfACampaign #FairBankingForAll www.fairbankingforall.org
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10 Dec 2024
V excited to share this one, with all its care, joy possibility that runs through the work of our partners Material Cultures. Interested in bio-based opportunities in theWest Mids; or the types of methodologies that can facilitate a bio-based material transition in our n'hoods?
9 Dec 2024
Building Skills is a new report by Material Cultures, situating social and ecological possibilities and context for the retrofit of the Neighbourhood Public Square at @CIVIC_SQUARE. In part it shares an ecoregional mapping of Birmingham West Midlands.
bit.ly/BuildingSkillsCS
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
26 Nov 2024
New data highlights some Social Landlords have a very large proportion of their homes failing to meet quality standards.
Over 60% of Birmingham City Council and Railway HA homes fail the decent home standard.Huge.
Worst offenders are LAs (perhaps they have more robust surveys?)
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
22 Nov 2024
Working in partnership with business, can only happen if government is clear on what the goals are (e.g. health for all, net zero), and then works with business to make that happen, through collective investment, designing contracts that socialize BOTH risks and rewards. In my book "The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy", and in books like Brett Christophers' "Rentier Capitalism", we look at how Blackrock has benefitted from the opposite: socialization of risk & privatization of rewards. So yes partnership is key, but must first define what a good partnership looks like. I also warned against the bland "business friendly" rhetoric in my pre-election @NewStatesman article newstatesman.com/comment/202…, and how to build symbiotic partnerships giving the concept of "stakeholder value" more meaning in this @HarvardBiz article hbr.org/2022/09/what-role-sh…
21 Nov 2024
I'm determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets.
This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses, like @BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment.
ALT Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts a Blackrock meeting along with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Blackrock founder and chief executive officer Larry Fink in 10 Downing Street.
ALT Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts a Blackrock meeting along with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Blackrock founder and chief executive officer Larry Fink in 10 Downing Street.
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22 Nov 2024
We all need more this!
22 Nov 2024
December 22nd. A Christmas Party for London.
It’s been a tough year. We can all do with a positive atmosphere dancing to good music.
Songs you know, songs you don’t know.
If you are in need the £1 ticket is for you. Students, Parents, NHS, Teachers, Rough Patch, Musicians, everyone. It’s for you.
If you can get a more expensive ticket, we make the dance as inclusive as possible.
No Christmas music. Maybe one joint at the very end. But it’ll be a lovers rock Christmas drop. Fear not, no Mariah. Just Fela and Salsa.
Tickets drop on Sunday, 6pm.
Spread the word.
Link in bio.
See you on the dancefloor.
Femi Koleoso
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
6 Nov 2024
“The ultimate, hidden truth
of the world is that it is
something that we make,
and could just as easily
make differently.”
― David Graeber
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The Reuse Hub, a collaboration between @WoodSaints and the Rebuild Site, intercepts timber and other surplus materials from construction sites and across the construction supply chain, enabling reuse of these materials at their highest use value for as long as possible!
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7 Nov 2024
So much heaviness in global politics this week, it was energising to be in a space clearly stretching imaginations creating new economic possibilities from individual to systemic, city-wide scales, in enabling the generous distribution of skills, know how, materials tools
ALT Artistic illustration depicting possible civic infrastructure from our Reimagined Neighbourhood Fundamentals outlined in our 3 Degree Neighbourhood research.
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7 Nov 2024
Beautiful (Local) Global Doughnut Day here at @CIVIC_SQUARE today, as part of our 'spotlighting the new economy' where we went to visit our region's incredible (recently opened) Reuse Hub Wolverhampton with our neighbours...
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2 Oct 2024
Demonstrations of how retrofit can enable us to reimagine the existing fabric of our cities, from infrastructures in service of vast industrial production to those which service the needs (social and ecological) of our time
1 Oct 2024
Spain is creating some of the best public architecture in the world right now
Conversion of a 1905 factory into
46 social housing apartments and public facilities in Barcelona
By Roldán Berengué
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
2 Oct 2024
In conversation this evening in Birmingham about #HistoryforTomorrow with one the great intellectual pioneers of our time @indy_johar
Join us at @CIVIC_SQUARE #BeyondBooks
eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bo…
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
2 Oct 2024
Organising ABUELOS (23-26 Oct) invites you into a collective enquiry that informs how ABUELOS becomes real. Read more about ABUELOS’ structural layers, what we’re organising around and what's shaping the curation of the programme here: medium.com/p/0d894d8126a1
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
1 Oct 2024
“This is where the craft and graft of imagining and making new economic futures is best situated — close to the action and very much with the people and places that have a stake in those better futures.”
link.medium.com/kxBKwuGklNb
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
29 Sep 2024
📢📢 ANNOUNCING 📢📢
Organising ABUELOS
23-26 October 2024
We're creating ABUELOS, a cultural centre with accommodation. Join us as we prepare for a community space in which culture, radical hospitality and architecture are crafted to meet the moment.
bit.ly/ABUELOS2024
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
30 Sep 2024
What can we learn from our shared history that could inspire solutions to the most urgent challenges facing humanity today?
Explore this with a day of immersive workshops with @KarberryK, @natcphd and @aliyahhasinah, finishing off the day with an evening dinner connecting over what promises to be a rich and inspiring conversation between @indy_johar and author of History for Tomorrow @romankrznaric.
Sign Up: bit.ly/bbtomorrow
#BeyondBooks @CIVIC_SQUARE
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Our afternoon workshops include:
@natcphd - Reform Ain’t Abolition: Lessons from Birmingham’s Struggle Against Slavery
@aliyahhasinah - Surfacing Lessons From Our Histories
@KarberryK - Consumed by Connection: Unpacking The Stories Embedded in the Supply Chains Around Us
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Catriona Rawsthorne retweeted
26 Sep 2024
In #HistoryforTomorrow @romankrznaric says “Other futures are possible”. He joins us in Birmingham next week for an in conversation with @indy_johar. #BeyondBooks bit.ly/bbtomorrow
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