Introduction

What would it look like to reimagine the systems of a whole city? To really involve citizens in addressing the huge challenges we face today? Imandeep Kaur reflects on what she has learned in the last ten years from being part of an ecosystem of social entrepreneurs in Birmingham who are cultivating ‘radical reimagination’.

From TEDx Brum, to Impact Hub Birmingham, to Dark Matter Labs and finally as the director of CIVIC SQUARE, where she has been greatly influenced by Kate Raworth’s work on Doughnut Economics, Immy shares some deep insights and big questions from her journey about systems change and leadership.

Resources:

• CIVIC SQUARE’s website

• The Doughnut Economics website

• Blogs and other resources related to Dark Matter Labs’ #BreakingTheRules project

• More Dark Matter Labs provocations from their Medium blog

• Indy Johar, one of Immy’s key influences, in a video conversation with Jordan Hall about the need for a new organisational theory and practice

• Related Leadermorphosis episode:

  • One of my favourite conversations with friend of Immy, Meg Lightheart