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Circ_it
Regen. Rewired.

This isn’t a rebrand. It’s a reboot. Born from disruption, Circ_it is a blueprint for looped, democratic, grassroots regeneration.

  • Not linear — looping.
  • Not top-down — ground-up.
  • Not locked — always in beta.

Circ_it connects people, places, and processes through design hacks, local labs, open-source tools and civic dialogue.

It starts Pre Regen — before any brief is written — to unlock blockers and build authentic futures.

This is regeneration with feedback. With friction. With a pattern that gives back more than it takes.

Plug in. Leave it on loop.

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CITU x Layer.studio x Studio Hoodless Present:
Circ_it LIVE at UKR***F 2025

The North Rewires Regeneration

The North of England doesn’t wait for permission — it builds through challenge, collaborates under pressure, and innovates from the ground up.

At UKR***F 2025 in Leeds, we bring this mindset centre stage.

Join us for a game-changing design hack focused on rethinking regeneration from the outcome backwards:

  • Starting with impact, not outputs
  • Diagnosing what holds projects back
  • Prototyping bold new pathways to success

This isn’t another panel — it’s a live design sprint and themed urban hack, fusing creative strategy with deep systems insight. Together, we’ll generate practical ideas for looped, inclusive, people-first regeneration.

What’s on the table:‍

  • How to unblock stuck schemes
  • How to turn community voice into design logic
  • How to build regeneration that loops back value

20th May, 1:30pm – 3pm
The Place, Climate Innovation District, LS10 1FB

Experience the newly dropped Circ_it format — where regeneration gets rewired through design, dialogue, and looped thinking.

Made in the North. Shaping the UK.

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Ideas circulate. Brands evolve.

Circ_it™
Regen. Rewired.

This isn’t a rebrand. It’s a reboot. Born from disruption, Circ_it™ is a blueprint for looped, democratic, grassroots regeneration.

  • Not linear — looping.
  • Not top-down — ground-up.
  • Not locked — always in beta.

Circ_it™ connects people, places, and processes through design hacks, local labs, open-source tools and civic dialogue. It starts Pre Regen — before any brief is written — to unlock blockers and build authentic futures. This is regeneration with feedback. With friction. With a pattern that gives back more than it takes.

Plug in. Leave it on loop.

Learn more
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MIPIM 2025

The UK North leading the Regeneration Revolution

At MIPIM, our innovative design hack took to the global stage — challenging how regeneration starts, who shapes it, and what success looks like.

Bringing together world-class developers and local authority leaders, the live session created space for honest debate, shared insight, and fresh thinking. Voices from across design, development, and community reworked the brief, tackled blockers, and tested new models for people-first, place-led regeneration.

Driven by Northern innovation, the session proved that the UK’s disruptive edge has global relevance.

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Circ_it™
An interactive design hack that uncovers the win factors by starting at the end and working backwards through the process.
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REBOOTING URBAN RENEWAL
There is no silver bullet! Urban regeneration is a multifaceted challenge, demanding holistic approaches and innovative solutions. BUT there are some win factors you should consider...
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Layer.studio X Studio Hoodless Design Hack
Circ_It Playbook:
50 moves to deliver
regeneration

Join us as we design sprint through a series of themed hacks to identify the blockers and bridges to regeneration success.

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Why is it so difficult to deliver regeneration?
Why do so many masterplans and strategies gather dust on a shelf?
A myriad of factors influence and inform plan making, different in every place.
What if there was a road map to successful delivery of regeneration?…
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Join us

Join us as we design sprint through a series of themed hacks to identify the blockers and bridges to regeneration success.

Mayfield Park, Manchester’s first new public park in a century

This is a collaborative workshop between Layer.studio x Studio Hoodless and will involve some of the UK’s most innovative and forward thinking change makers including; designers, developers, policy makers and community shapers.

The outcome will be a collaborative, experimental learning experience that will test, design, refine and publish a viable place-shaping methodology that can be applied across the UK’s urban centres.

The process will reveal those elusive moves that will deliver your regeneration project, captured and shared online to inform and support your plan making.

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