Using the power of data to make finding land easy, quick and transparent. DemoDev places citizens at the heart of a strategy to tackle the UK housing crisis through building homes enabled by new local, digital supply chains and convening a nationwide open impact movement.
To date DemoDev been running in collaboration with Ordnance Survey, Land Registry, Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Combined Authority. DemoDev will link the built environment directly to neighbourhood outcomes and giving people the opportunity to build their own homes, whilst hosting a strong voice on the need for inclusive, democratic and citizen-centred development at scale across the city.
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Democratising Development
| Andy Reeve
Design guide for our city
| Andy Reeve
Community Response to Birmingham’s Housing Crisis
| Andy Reeve
More Car Parks Than Venice
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Partners
Wikihouse
WikiHouse is an open source building system. Many designers, collaborating to make it simple for everyone to design, print an…
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Wikihouse
WikiHouse is an open source building system. Many designers, collaborating to make it simple for everyone to design, print and assemble beautiful, low-energy homes, customised to their needs.
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey is Britain's mapping agency and partner of the DemoDev project.
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Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey is Britain's mapping agency and partner of the DemoDev project.
IMPACT HUB CO-FOUNDER CONTACTS
Andy Reeve
Co-Founder, Director of Finance & Urban Economics
Andy has followed a diverse career path so far, built upon a strong operational and financial management background. After st…
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Andy Reeve
Co-Founder, Director of Finance & Urban Economics
Andy has followed a diverse career path so far, built upon a strong operational and financial management background. After studying Finance he went on to work in Account Management in design and as Data Analyst at West Midlands Police, where he discovered his passion for analysis and solving problems with data.
Now exploring the role urban economics can have in building a fairer more democratic city, making coffee and working on how to solve housing issues with open data - you’re most likely to find him riding a bicycle.
andy.reeve@impacthub.net
University of Birmingham - Money, Banking and Finance BSc
National Intelligence Analysis Training
Past: The Unagency, West Midlands Police, Faculty Coffee,
Current: Impact Hub Birmingham
Joyjit Sarkar
Co-Founder, Director of Design & Making
Joy is an Engineer and clinical practitioner. He has a background of working within the UK’s National Health Service within…
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Joyjit Sarkar
Co-Founder, Director of Design & Making
Joy is an Engineer and clinical practitioner. He has a background of working within the UK’s National Health Service within an assistive technology service providing clinical engineering and health service development.
Joy now runs his own small consultancy designing medical devices and healthcare service delivery. He is passionate about improving the way healthcare is delivered and help bring back engineering to Birmingham.
joyjit.sarkar@impacthub.net
University of Birmingham - Biomedical Engineering BEng.
Coventry University - Rehabilitation Engineering GradDip.
Cardiff University - Clinical Engineering MSc.
Past: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Current: JJD Innovations (Engineering Design), Partnerships TEDxBrum, Engineers Without Borders UK Healthcare, Impact Hub Birmingham