Exploring the ecologies of commoning, documenting crimes of solidarity and researching how to use digital platforms to amplify community stories.

A report of my apprenticeship so far

This month we kicked off two exciting new projects, launched a new website for the Left Book Club, continued building distributed, resilient archive software in collaboration with The New Design Congress and spoke at the Weizenbaum Conference in Berlin.

Reflecting on the past year

An integrated and opinionated collection of Django applications and Javascript components that helps you build software for organising and campaigning.

Why we're establishing a new guide to digital tools for organising.

We're working on a project to generalise and share effective tools and best practices for digital organising.

It's the future!

What does a social change organisation look like online? We recently worked with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to explore this question through research and rapid prototyping.

We used a Manual of Me workshop to think about how collaborating better

Sketching, storyboarding, prototyping and testing our ideas

Organisers need automations, but relying on Zapier can be dangerous for your organisation. Here’s an alternative.

Exploring the challenge, identifying our collective goal and surfacing questions

Laying the foundations for a design sprint, in collaboration with a self-organising network of food co-ops

Tools to help workforces build up a picture of working conditions to transform these conditions and build power

New launches, reusable products for organising and community-led design

A review of who we collaborated with and what we got up to

Sociocracy and Scrum, two methods for organising in a collaborative and horizontal way

Air quality monitoring, peacebuilding, community organising

Talking in rounds is a great way to run a meeting. Why not try it?

Starting meetings with a check in can be really helpful. Here's how.

Amplifying grassroots voices and setting collective intentions

Claim the Future and The World Transformed

What we got up to in June.

The Labour Together review is launched! Our contribution to it and reflections on it.

Some recent launches and our user research for United Voices of the World

A few weeks rolled into one

Including our organising safely online for mutual aid stream

Making the shift to organising online in the light of COVID-19

Collective responses to COVID-19 and some thoughts on working remotely

Wrapping up Labour Together and going on a podcast

Thinking beyond precarity and exploring Fortnite

Relational organising, Swedish style

Two articles on the Iowa app debacle for The Guardian and Jacobin

Labour Together, Left Book Club and our take on the failure of digital technology during the Iowa caucus

Our talk for the Left Book Club

We just launched a simple tool to help organisers to find and book spaces.

Supporting autonomous reading group organising, food solidarity networks and networking across CoTech

Setting objectives for the quarter, and how we used Django in the 2019 General Election campaign

We are pleased to be part of the team of commissioners for Labour Together’s General Election Review.

Collaborating with Generation Rent

Workers' inquiries and activist self-care

On the importance of doing deep and dense work, rather than getting caught up in short-term, urgency thinking.

Internal rhythms, consultancy work and building networks of mutual aid

Finding spaces for activism, supporting striking workers, and our approach to tricky problems

Reflecting on how to break big tech open, build a feminist Internet and collectively model threats to open projects.

Establishing a shared vision, collective intelligence and our first week at Space4

Our workshop for The World Transformed