Civic Square

Building neighbourhoods of the future

Civic Square, based in Birmingham, is a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. It builds on the Impact Hub Birmingham and reimagines the public square by working within the neighbourhood as a unit of change.  

Future Observatory is keen to showcase Civic Square’s bold ten-year vision to build a new public square in Birmingham, retrofitting and repurposing old industrial buildings to reimagine and collectively build a vibrant, well-resourced, 21st-century place where communities gather. This public square will be designed to be regenerative, flexible, adaptable, open and sustainable, acting as a local economic multiplier. It will co-create social infrastructure, and be home to practical resources and physical spaces for making, cooking, working, growing and playing, with a purpose-built home developed by and for children and families. This could offer a model for civic development in which sustainability, culture and community come together with powerful results.