What is a squilometre?
First off - we made the word up! Please don't be alarmed if you haven't come across it before!
It just means that it operates within (roughly) one square kilometre. Between 2015 and 2026 there were six neighbourhood Squilometres, each celebrating one street at a time and allowing residents there to pay any surplus forward for the next street project in their area to happen. In that way it was always based on circular, gifting economy and never had any significant top-down funding. Everything happened through kind, voluntary effort, with no one on salary, leaving ownership with residents and making it unique and maybe before its time. We're incredibly proud to have fostered 11 years of resident-led community development and activity using these new economic approaches and couldn't have developed Quiet Voice Methodology without our Squilometres.
It just means that it operates within (roughly) one square kilometre. Between 2015 and 2026 there were six neighbourhood Squilometres, each celebrating one street at a time and allowing residents there to pay any surplus forward for the next street project in their area to happen. In that way it was always based on circular, gifting economy and never had any significant top-down funding. Everything happened through kind, voluntary effort, with no one on salary, leaving ownership with residents and making it unique and maybe before its time. We're incredibly proud to have fostered 11 years of resident-led community development and activity using these new economic approaches and couldn't have developed Quiet Voice Methodology without our Squilometres.
Connecting People to People and People to Place
-Here are the essential ingredients:-
A Squilometre is always community nominated and community-led. Each street based project within that Squilometre is run by a residents' steering group, or "Pod". They make all the decisions.
A Squilometre is sustainable. One street pays it forward to allow the next street project to happen. All within one Squilometre. What goes around comes right on around again meaning that Squilometre activity, in that community, is based on a sustainable, circular-economy.
A Squilometre is celebratory. The emphasis is always on celebrating the unique features of community and place. Each individual street project brings residents together in a shared celebration. Pop-up exhibitions, community star-gazing, roving performances, inter-generational tea-parties - the Pod decides!
Squilometre is all about the place! Working in this hyper-local way, street by street, around and around inside one square kilometre means that residents come to know and care about their own place - taking a more active part in decisions about it's future.
Most of all a Squilometre is transferable. Any place, any place at all - rural, urban, derelict, green - will support a Squilometre. Just contact us to find out how.
A Squilometre is always community nominated and community-led. Each street based project within that Squilometre is run by a residents' steering group, or "Pod". They make all the decisions.
A Squilometre is sustainable. One street pays it forward to allow the next street project to happen. All within one Squilometre. What goes around comes right on around again meaning that Squilometre activity, in that community, is based on a sustainable, circular-economy.
A Squilometre is celebratory. The emphasis is always on celebrating the unique features of community and place. Each individual street project brings residents together in a shared celebration. Pop-up exhibitions, community star-gazing, roving performances, inter-generational tea-parties - the Pod decides!
Squilometre is all about the place! Working in this hyper-local way, street by street, around and around inside one square kilometre means that residents come to know and care about their own place - taking a more active part in decisions about it's future.
Most of all a Squilometre is transferable. Any place, any place at all - rural, urban, derelict, green - will support a Squilometre. Just contact us to find out how.
