Civic imaginaries: how people think, feel and dream about the futures of their places
Published: 1 May 2025
Research insight
Learn more about the Civic Imaginary Partnerships Project, a four-year Future Leaders Fellowship in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy.
The website for the new Civic Imaginary Partnerships project is now live. Funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, the project aims to provoke neighbourhood-level conversations about community participation and the ‘civic’, and make qualitative, lived experiences of civic culture directly available to policymakers.
Inspired by the concept of the civic imaginary, the research brings together communities, policymakers, researchers and artists to ask what being civic means in the United Kingdom right now, and playfully considers how people collectively reimagine and reinvent their places.
The team will live and work alongside community-based organisations, residents and local decision makers in Chester, Frome, Hull, Glasgow and Southampton. The website will be regularly updated with blogs from the project team and guest contributors—along with project updates, events and more.
Visit the Civic Imaginary Partnerships Project website.
First published: 1 May 2025