A great video showing explaining the Playing Out idea in action!
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Playing out in Birmingham
The Kings Heath Centre for Space Exploration is coordinating efforts to organise one or more ‘Playing Out‘ events for National Play Day, which is Wednesday 7 August 2013. “Playing Out” is after-school street play led by neighbours for neighbours and only publicised within the immediate streets. Residents close their road to traffic for a couple of hours, […]
The Winter Equinox. The Roman Saturnalia. The birth of Jesus. Some time off work. What ever it is that you are celebrating this yule season, it is highly likely that during the holiday you will have some time on your hands. I know it’s hard to believe when all around you, people struggle to “get […]
I’d like to be able to urge you to watch this, but I can’t. If you watch it, you’ll understand why. What I can do is let you know that I found it very inspiring.
There is an introductory session for the Space Explorers ‘Community Conversations‘ project on Thursday 6 December 11:30 at the Baptist Church Cafe on Kings Heath High Street. This session is open to adults, and adults with children. Food will be supplied for limited numbers, but if that all goes you can buy more from the […]
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A message to Strix
John Lewis you will have heard of, Strix probably not. Strix make the controls and components that go inside electrical goods from many different brands. They made the controls inside my three-year-guarantee, John Lewis kettle. The controls failed after three years and five months. Both John Lewis and Strix have been utterly professional and customer-caring in their responses to my […]
Our kettle stopped working a few days ago. And the socket behind the dishwasher that occasionally switches itself off half-way through the wash did just that. In other news, as a (newly joined) member of Kings Heath Transition Initiative I attended a Green Deal ‘go early’ training session for community recruiters. The green deal is […]
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Mission Statement
I’ve just updated the tag-line for this site to: ‘Living space, working space, public space, private space. Can the spaces where we live, become places of well-being?’. This is my latest attempt to pin down the mission focus of The Centre. I thought that it might be worth tracking how this mission statement has developed […]
Those of us who live in small areas of dense population with diverse inhabitants, we imagine, perhaps even congratulate ourselves, that our lifestyle is cosmopolitan. Thanks to national and global mobility, people of different ethnicity, nationality, language and faith live side by side in a huge, life-enriching melting pot. But is it melting? Surrounded by […]
The Kings Heath Centre for Space Exploration is a family exploring the space in which they live. We’d like to meet other families who are interested in investigating how our homes and other spaces, both private and public, affect our well-being. We’ll also be encouraging families we meet to embark on their own missions; to […]