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 […]
I’d like to put forward a theory. Our beloved corporations, which exist to feed themselves, which are fiercely self-protective, which despite being abstract entities, can effectively steamroller over the feelings and rights and of individuals and indeed, of whole communities, which are a force composed of human will, but which do not have a pro-human agenda, are […]
These are the government’s road safety guidelines for setting a good example to your children: You can set a good example by: explaining road safety and getting them to talk about it using the Green Cross Code encouraging your child to notice and discuss what they see around them on the road always crossing roads […]
One of the junior members here came up with the idea of using genetically modified bacteria to break down Nuclear waste. Although this seemed a very advanced and technical proposition for us, we decided to do some research on the subject and were amazed to find that scientists showed that bacteria could be used to ‘recycle’ […]
We’re delighted to announce that our Space Explorers project is to be included in the Co.Lab module of this year’s architecture post-graduate course at BIAD, BCU. This means that in two weeks I’m going to be pitching my project to students, along with others from The Public, Flatpack Film Festival and Dudley Zoo! This development […]