Resourcing Knowledge Infrastructure

Project Overview

Conceived through a discussion with colleagues at Centric Lab, this paper was used to motivate resource redistribution towards epistemic justice. Knowledge infrastructures are concerned with the organisational and pedagogical means of producing and sharing knowledge. We developed the paper through a series of conversations with key health justice organisers, asking funders to relinquish decision-making power over strategy and practice; to sustain, archive and make accessible radical knowledges; to fund dedicated gathering spaces free from capitalist financial constraints; and to centre marginalised communities in a restorative justice process.

Project Outcome

The report was followed by a convening of philanthropy leaders, community organisers and resource redistribution practitioners. We explored the purpose of the paper and its implications for how — and, more importantly, why — community projects are resourced, and what "impact" should really look like.