The Dryden Enterprise Centre was built during the pandemic to provide a state of the art enterprise, workspace and training centre for Nottingham Trent University students during and after graduation, local start up and hybrid businesses and Nottingham and Derby businesses in the D2N2 geography to have a brilliant connecting space.  The DEC that Natalie Gasson Mckinley chose for […]

Featured Image: Prof Alasdair Rae’s: Ranking of electoral results by political party linked to social and economic deprivation There are plans to reduce the number of political constituencies from 650 to 600: this is an act of vandalism against representation that we should oppose. When we rebuilt Britain after the second world war people returning […]

Jonathan Reeves is part of the groundworks team working across the Metropolitan Housing estate in Nottingham and Derby. Living in Derby with a young family he’s part of Dale Hayward’s and Shaun Thompson’s team with partner Jeremy Bult Working on groundworks mean they’re involved in anything: Jonathan is repointing cement around the drain at the rear […]

Featured image: Architecture and Urbanism’s People Powered Places brand that raises the possibilities for more representative neighbourhoods and communities, more of the time. In social housing there’s been a debate over the last forty years about how the cost of managing the privately owned housing estate can be efficiently run, supervised and scaled as well […]

Featured Image: Let’s Love Our Community on The Disruptive Inequalities blog How can we reconnect the aspirations of working class people who rent privately and in social housing with the aspirations of people who have mortgages, who have bought their homes? Because we need people to make meaningful relationships across class, age, ethnicities, genders that […]

Featured Image: how a watercolour of Hucknall by JC Hallam adds a softness and diversity we all seek in the neighbourhood. The divides in neighbourhoods everywhere need to be mended by new kinds of relationship between professional people and working class people where instead of deferring the problems they each see under their noses they […]

Charles Murray is an American right wing shock-journalist activist, nurtured and paid to become a sociologist propagandist for conservative eugenics over the last forty years. Murray began his transatlantic campaign during the Thatcher/Reagonmics era when the idea of how restricting the capacities, representation of working class people through agency, gig and gang labour under/overemployment and […]

Featured image: Duncan Johnson Street Cleaner, Telford Morton below: Irene Welburn, Nurse Brown ‘Every so often a moment comes along that snaps everything into sharp focus… this chapter in history has seen society shift its attention on to some of the people in this country who are not usually afforded the spotlight.’ Edward Enninful, Editor […]

Featured Image: A Vegetal City by Solar Punk architect Luc Schuiten profiled on Rob Hopkins blog Since the introduction of the category ‘limiting long term illness’ in the census in 1991 we’re beginning to realise that it wasn’t ever used in the way people living in Britain expected. Census data has been used to enable venture […]

Featured Image: Tony Hickmott and parents at 13: when he was 26 he was deprived of his liberty, incarcerated in a Assessment and Treatment facility that changed ownership, managership and client group many times during his eighteen years of incarceration In Black History month it’s worth thinking about the parallels of the underground railway that […]