Common Knowledge

🚨 My Election Map has landed 🚨 Our new online tool will point you towards the places where your time and energy could tip the scales for inspiring, progressive candidates in the upcoming May election. Swipe to find out more about the tool and why YOU should use it. Reform may have money from their billionaire donors, but we’ve got people power - and if enough of us show up we can swing the results. Use it. Share it. Let’s elect hope this May 💥

Can you help us support social movements with technology? We’re recruiting 4–6 founding members to join our Advisory Circle, bringing external expertise and strategic perspective to support our cooperative’s mission. Apply here: https://bit.ly/ckadvisory

Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology We shouldn’t need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production. Link in bio.

We're on Day 6 of our climate camp - check out our amazing ad hacks, workshops on digital security and prison abolition, and how we can work towards a better world despite political repression. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🔥🍓

Common Knowledge opposes the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

We're very excited to share the timetable for next Saturday! 💬 Talks & Discussions Two talks by @migrantsinculture : What We’ve Learned from Running a Migrant-Led Design Agency / What are Migrants In Culture’s Visual Notes telling us about our Movement for Border Abolition? Towards A People’s Design Service: @sahra_hersi , @resolvecollective & @unit38_ Let us Introduce You Into the Future… with ACFM Solidarity with Palestine: @baesianz , @cwag_uk & @parentsforpalestine , facilitated by @artistscultureworkersldn The ABC of the Projectariat: @szreder.kuba Reflection Matters: @commonknowledge.coop ⚒️ Workshops A Lexicon of Alternative Economies & Activist Strategies: @alternativeschoolofeconomics The Art of Cultivating Desires for a Different World: @critical_hedonisms How to Start a Cooperative: @workers.coop , @not.nowhere , @calverts_london & @calebfjlelliott Archival Imaginaries: @maydayrooms Collectivising Feminist Publishing with Slow + Dirty Press (@jemimayong @anahi_saravia @anna_c.i ) Art for the Streets, Not the Galleries: @we_are_adg Dreaming Nourishing Futures: @platform1983 @foodjusticeldn Smash the Fash! Game Jam: @gamestransformed 🌈 Other activities 📚 Stalls by publishers, printers and collectives @hajarpress , @peckham_keffiyeh , @setmargins , @dope.magazine_ & @notes_from_below 👀 Open studios with @pelican.house residents @migrantsinculture @commonknowledge.coop and @unit38_ 🌸 Kids Activities for over 5's with @nannysolidaritynetwork : zine-making, instaprint photography and creative play. 🎨 Mural Painting with @roxanne_jingco 🕸️ What Resources You? with @some.small.things : a low pressure space for sensorial play. 🌟 Free social afterwards with music and drinks — all welcome! 📌 The full programme is available via the link in our bio. 🎟️ Tickets are selling fast so get yours now!

Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative of technologists, designers, researchers and facilitators. They work in collaboration with social movement organisations, using design and technology to support their work and help them build power.

🚩Tickets on sale! 🚩 Join us for a day of visual culture and politics at Pelican House! Saturday 7 June, 10am – 8:30pm We’re so excited to bring this group of people together! Expect discussions on the role of radical imagination within social movements, case studies from designers and architects working alongside organisers, strategies for addressing precarity in creative work, and practical advice on setting up cooperatives and other solidarity infrastructures 💬 Talks and discussions with ACFM, @alternativeschoolofeconomics , @baesianz , @cwag_uk , @critical_hedonisms , @szreder.kuba , @migrantsinculture , @sahra_hersi , @unit38_ and @workers.coop ⚒️ Workshops from @we_are_adg , @gamestransformed , @maydayrooms , @platform1983 and Slow + Dirty Press 📚 Stalls by publishers, printers and collectives @hajarpress , @peckham_keffiyeh , @setmargins and @stickyfingerspublishing 👀 Open studio tours from @pelican.house residents @migrantsinculture , @commonknowledge.coop and @unit38_ There will be a delicious free lunch, collective art making, a social afterwards and free childcare provided by @nannysolidaritynetwork Get your tickets now — link in bio! Supported by @pelican.house , the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and @theworldtransformed

Solidarity Knows No Borders ✨ We are very excited to see that our illustrations for SKNB are on the network's new website: Designed by the wonderful people at Common Knowledge @commonknowledge.coop the website gives you so many useful resources, ways to join and the whole history of this people powered organising force. Join SKNB to end hostility and racism against migrants and refugees! ✏️Rosalie @rosalieschweiker

Thank you to everyone who worked with us or supported us this year. Here's our non-exhaustive list of highlights from 2024: 1. Launching Mapped, our open source toolkit for collective organising, and using it to power @theclimatecoalition 's People Climate Nature hub during the 2024 UK General Election. 2. Co-designing a digital “time portal” for the @dudleycreates People’s School for Climate Justice. 3. Working with @goodpraxis.coop @savena.online @maxryanxam to launch a new version of the @galleryclimatecoalition Carbon Calculator tool. 4. Travelling to events like @ebsorganising & @troublem8kersatwork where we could learn about what’s happening on the ground, share our latest thinking around building common movement infrastructure, and run training sessions on topics like holistic security for climate activists. 5. Launching a new website for @pelican.house 6. Alex joining the board of NEON and @gemcopeland joining the board of @workers.coop 7. Run participatory strategy workshops on our team retreat in Edinburgh. Read more in our latest newsletter — link in bio. See you in 2025!

New online presence for climate justice organisation @platform1983 to showcase their work, history and creative approach to organising. Our goal with the design was to communicate a sense of active hope, showing how Platform are nurturing the seeds of solutions and cultural shifts as well as organising against oppression. Throughout the design process, we looked for ways to foreground what we thought was most interesting and inspiring about Platform: that they are not only helping people imagine radically different futures, but also finding ways to build alternative infrastructures in the present. Design @gemcopeland , @arbyhisenaj Build Joaquim de Souza, Anna Cunnane Illustrations @ilyannakerr Project management @some.small.things Content @anniebrooker_ Technology WordPress Typefaces Styrene B, PP Mori

📈 The most granular and responsive data on on core deprivation metrics in England. The Annual Deprivation Index (ADI) is a project by the think tank Autonomy .It provides researchers and local authorities with granular, up-to-date data with which to base their analyses. This provides decision-makers with the information they need to allocate government resources, evaluating policies and understanding socio-economic inequalities. Our goal was to communicate the benefits of a more granular and frequent index of deprivation. The challenge here was working out how to keep people engaged on a single page site and convince them to download the data themselves.We decided to keep the communication lean, breaking up the key messages into sections to showcase each of the core features. We harnessed the power of the GSAP plugin library to animate text, trigger transitions and provide a smooth scrolling experience. Design and Build: @arbyhisenaj Project Mangement:@some.small.things Data & Content: Lukas Kikuchi (@autonomy.uk )