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Collaborative maps for organising and offline relationship-building

Organisers gather lots of data from people, but how do we turn that data into solidarity amongst them? Enter Mapped, a new organising tool to help people find each other, and give your campaign a bird’s eye view of your contact lists through maps, dashboards and reports.

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🔊 Announcement Mar 2025

Our plan for 2025

In response to recent funding challenges and a commitment to transparency, we're sharing our 2025 strategy and inviting collaboration and feedback to address the structural issues in funding long-term movement work.

Nov 2024

A movement practice: eco-social design in grounded context

An essay written for the 2024 By Design and by Disaster Conference on the theme "Power in Transformation".

🎯 Strategy Jun 2024

Our Approach to the 2024 General Election

Introduction Just two weeks ago, Rishi Sunak announced that the next UK General Election will take place on 4 July. The day after, all seven of us in Common Knowledge ran a workshop to collectively decide what we should do…

🔊 Announcement Mar 2024

Mapped launch

Join us for the launch of Mapped, a tool that integrates with common membership systems to enable more strategic organising. Built by Common Knowledge, designed for and with organisers.

Promo image for the Mapped launch event
🧰 Tools & Tech Mar 2024

Mapped: Move to Action

For an introduction to the Mapped project see our previous post on Membership systems and electoral strategy. We are now into the next phase of the project where we are building a prototype to put our ideas into action.

A screenshot of the "mapped" webpage, a tool for organizers and activists to locate their network by constituency and much more.
📚 Research Feb 2024

Membership systems and electoral strategy

Thanks to the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, we’ve spent the last few months supporting grassroots organisations in their preparation work towards this year’s General Election in the UK. Our attention has been focused on where their membership systems meet their campaign strategy.

Screenshot from one of our workshops exploring prototype options