@melissamean
Regenerative neighbourhoods, social infrastructure, community-led housing, just transition. All about making together. Land. Materials. People. Founding Director WeCanMake; Trustee Power to Change; Director MAIA Group. www.wecanmake.org
How to build affordable homes within planetary boundaries? Great to hear @melissamean.bsky.social @cityofsound.bsky.social @indyjohar.bsky.social at the launch of the MULTIMAX Playbook. wecanmake.org Hosted by @wshed.bsky.social
Totally brilliant to have you join us in Bristol. This is a global neighbourhood to neighbourhood, city to city movement that is growing. We have to do housing differently- for people and the planet.
(In Bristol tonight, helping @wecanmake.bsky.social launch their amazing MultiMax community housing system—it’s so good. Congrats to @melissamean.bsky.social + @wecanmake.bsky.social team, plus great support from Dave Lomax from Waugh Thistleton and Bristol council) wecanmake.org/builds/multi...
The New Plan for Neighbourhoods. Six thoughts 🧵.
1️⃣ It’s seeking to learn from the New Deal for Communities (great!) but the ££ involved isn’t anywhere at the same scale.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Tune into the @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Climate Champions podcast to hear @melissamean.bsky.social talking all things retrofit, and putting the power into community hands 🙌
AJ CLIMATE CHAMPIONS PODCAST | Melissa Mean (@melissamean.bsky.social) from community land trust WeCanMake (@wecanmake.bsky.social): ‘Retrofit is seen as really alienating. We’re trying to blow that apart’
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-clim...
Join the @wecanmake.bsky.social team at our next Neighbourhood Meet Up to make a cold-busting 'fire cider' tonic, try your hand at some visible mending 🪡 and learn how to safety-check your bike 🚲
Book a spot 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
At this meetup, you’ll be able to take part in:
🚲 Bike maintenance with Athlyn and Peter
🪡 Visible mending with Hester and Riannan
🍯 Fire cider making with Tay and Meha
🍲 Shared food + drink
😊 Connect with the wider WeCanMake network
Book your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
At our next WeCanMake Hood Meet Up (20 Feb), the team would like to share some of what we like making in our own time with YOU!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
#Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Ordered some too. Thanks for the link. Makes total sense on packaging and food waste 👌
Just as UK subsidies for Drax and Lynemouth power fuel forest destruction in the SE USA and British Columbia, biomass subsidies in Japan and South Korea are fuelling rainforest destruction in Indonesi: news.mongabay.com/2024/12/indo... #BigBadBiomass
Yes to all of this!
And then maybe in refurb especially, where the need for labour is always going to be higher, we consider the possibility that to be a builder/joiner/plumber/spark, you don't actually *have* to be a white man. That adds c.60% of the population to the recruitment pool.
This is one of the most exciting things @wecanmake.bsky.social with @davelomax.bsky.social is working on at the moment.
Pre-app for 1st site using the system submitted: localised MMC production, homegrown timber, pre-approved system.
Hello 👋 unlocking urban infill sites for community-led homes 😁
👇 What are your favourite examples of community music hubs? Or venues you miss? 👇
@mr.place @communityguy.bsky.social @melissamean.bsky.social @wecanmake.bsky.social
Oooh! I like this game 😁
www.trinitybristol.org.uk
Stella music lineup, really rooted in its community, vocal leadership on issues that matter in the city
www.cubecinema.com - so much more than a cinema
Eagle House Social Club in #KnowleWest Many a legend (musical & otherwise) born right there.
Seeking the #CommunityLedHousing people on #Bluesky @wecanmake.bsky.social @tomchance.bsky.social @clhlondon.bsky.social
Where is everyone else? Feel a #StarterPack coming on….
If I’ve met you in 2024, I’ve no doubt shared this brilliant paper & my hack highlighting the role for #CommunityLed in filling out the missing third of “common good” homes that actually meet the needs of people & respect planetary boundaries.
What any overhaul of #NPPF should be aiming to do…
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
📢 Starting our Bluesky journey with exciting news: Footwork’s People & Place 2025 community innovators!
🏘️ These 10 groups & individuals make an ambitious collective, galvanised around a shared mission of locally-led neighbourhood transformation
🔗 www.footwork.org.uk/post/meet-th...
Appreciation 👌
… and any awesome place-based women regenerative change makers you’d nominate for the list ? 💚
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This sounds worth putting in the calendar!
Black Mountains College is partnering with Sparks Bristol to host a Sustainable Futures workshop, bringing people of all ages together to explore what role they can play in creating a just society within safe planetary boundaries.
Free, 25th Jan @ Sparks
We are absolutely over the moon 🌑 to have been awarded the Community Land Trust 'All About Community' award on Saturday! ✨
John, one of WeCanMake's pioneering residents accepted it on our behalf. You can watch his speech here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-Ypm...
This is actually a very funny & nice thing 😁
#blueskyroast.com
Photo of people shopping at Sparks in Bristol, with a sign saying 'Sustainable fashion workshops.' Text: Department stories. 11 December. Online.
Up to 85% of high street department stores have disappeared. But communities are creating new ways to fill these vacant spaces.
Join us 11 Dec with:
@jesscraig.bsky.social
@grahamsoult.bsky.social
@katcj.bsky.social w/ @artspaceuk.bsky.social
Chaired by @jonnelledge.bsky.social
🎫 bit.ly/3OBMdP1
Great #StarterPack incoming, courtesy of @nelandrum.bsky.social 🤘
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