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 in allowing for the production and sharing of knowledge. We developed the paper through a series of conversations with key health justice organisers. The paper asks:

• To relinquish decision-making power within philanthropy over strategy and practice by identifying infrastructure organisations and resourcing them to deliver for the community.
• To effectively sustain, archive and make accessible radical knowledges.
• For a healthy knowledge ecosystem there needs to be dedicated gathering spaces free from capitalist financial constraints. Funders and ecosystem enablers need to recognise their economies of scale and agency in this area.
• Centering marginalised communities in a restorative justice process ensures that healing is focused on those who are carrying the greatest burdens of surviving under racial capitalism.

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 on how community projects are resourced (but more importantly why they're resourced and what "impact" should look like).