CIVIC Square co-created the Ladywood neighbourhood Doughnut Portrait. The Doughnut Portrait is a participatory tool which supports communities and practitioners to identify local needs and align neighbourhood aspirations with planetary boundaries and responsibilities to global communities. Working with architects at Material Cultures, learnings from the Doughnut Portrait were combined with a Material Strategy for Birmingham and the West Midlands, including local skills building.
Including regionally sourced materials in procurement can link regional producers and manufacturers to local construction. This demonstrates how place-based strategy can strengthen local and community economies, while stewarding reciprocal relations with different places and sectors. This can address embodied carbon emissions and other environmental impacts by promoting sustainable, locally rooted supply chains.
