Design
Development
StrikeMap
A worker-powered attempt to map the industrial action taking place across the world.
Design
Development
Pelican House
Website and identity design for Pelican House, a social centre for worker organising, movement building, experimental arts & culture.
Training
Digital Security Trainings
Online trainings with hundreds of climate activists on digital security fundamentals and threat modelling.
Design
Development
Solidarity Knows No Borders
Website for Solidarity Knows No Borders, a community of migrant groups organising in solidarity to end hostility and racism against migrants and refugees.
Design
Development
Safe as Houses
Interactive report for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on how the climate crisis is exacerbating the housing crisis worldwide, and how people can fight back.
Design
Development
Platform
New online presence for climate justice organisation Platform to showcase their work, history and creative approach to organising.
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.
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.
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".
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…
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.
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.
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.
