Living Library of Knowledges
About This Page
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Our Living Encyclopedia is part of our work in creating Living Knowledges. Here you will find community led and scientifically rooted reportings that are in constant progression as injustice is an evolving phenomena.
Living Knowledges is a realm where knowledge finds a sanctuary to flourish, evolve, and expand beyond the confines of conventional repositories. It is a dynamic space dedicated to storing and nurturing knowledge in a manner that allows it to adapt, transform, and grow with the passage of time.
This is a digital ecosystem designed to accommodate the vast array of information amassed by humanity. It goes beyond the static nature of traditional libraries and archives, embracing the concept of living ideas that continuously evolve. Thus, knowledge is envisioned as a living entity that undergoes perpetual enhancement and refinement. Every piece of information is treated as a seed, capable of germinating, branching out, and cross-pollinating with other ideas.
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This Library houses all the work produced therefore you can use the filter to search for topics and formats that suit your query.
You can access a range of works, such as definitions which give a ~200 word summary of a key topic, as well as long form reports.
Some of the works listed here also feature in the Programmes so you can see related works as you go.
- Air Pollution
- Capitalism
- Chemicals
- CHIA
- Children
- Cities
- Classism
- Climate Change
- Colonisation
- Communities
- Data
- Diabetes
- Disabilities
- Disease
- ec
- Economics
- Environmental Data
- Environmental Justice
- Epistemologies
- Gender
- Grants
- Healing
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Indigenous Peoples
- Inequality
- Interviews
- Justice
- Lived Experience
- Marginalisation
- Mental Health
- Migration
- Mobility
- Nature
- Neuroscience
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Obesity
- Physical Health
- Policy
- Pollution
- Racism
- Regeneration
- Science
- Stress
- Trans Health
- Transport
- Trauma
- Urban Planning
- Women
- Workforce
Trans Migrant Person of Colour Micro Healing Reporting
There is a need for complementary healing practices that are culturally literate and led directly by the people. Micro healing grants are small, unrestricted stipends that provide the recipient an opportunity to have space to think about their healing and enquire about healing strategies that are currently not available to them
Trans Migrant People of Colour Health Justice Report
From our Migrant Trans POC Justice programme we bring forward this piece of working on providing micro-grants designed to give autonomy and dignity to individuals and communities.
Healing, Not Thinning
Exploring the Potential of Micro-Grants as a Pathway to Healing and Health Justice for People Living with Obesity
Decolonisation in Precarity: Migration & Trans Healthcare
From our Trans and Gender Non-Binary Health Justice Programme, we bring forward the work of Nina Rivera, who is an organiser, healer, and advocate of Trans Women's Migrant Rights. She is the recipient of our first Healing grant, where she brought together Trans Migrant Women into a space of Kinship and healing.
People, Cities, Nature, and Healing
A report on the role nature plays in cities and the varying pathways to health and healing. It centres non-western epistemologies as guiding tools for a better, more symbiotic living with Nature.
Invisible Nature: The Microbiome & Healing
Given how important the environmental microbiome is both to human health and planetary regulation, it is important that we begin to include it in the context of cities and urbanisation.
Language Stripes
Languages can be a powerful tool to relate to and interconnect with the natural world. Indigenous languages––those developed by First Nations Peoples––embody a deep ecological knowledge that is critical to protecting nature. Biodiversity and Indigenous languages are undeniably intertwined.
The Making of “The Peoples’ Obesity Justice Pamphlet”
Here we provide a brief overview of the creation of “The People’s Obesity Justice Pamphlet”.
Towards Obesity Health Justice
This work aims to demonstrate the harm of the dominant, individualised, narrative of obesity. We present an alternative understanding that views obesity through a neuro-epidemiological, environmental and sociopolitical lens. This serves as an avenue for people who are experiencing obesity to understand their disease and explore potential methods of self-care, self-advocacy and safeguarding.
The Living Indigenous Encyclopaedias for Health Justice
We are very proud and excited to launch this living wisdoms ecosystem. We are coining this term as Knowledges are alive, they evolve through interaction with culture, events, and time. This term also highlights that Indigenous Knowledges are still relevant and will always keep evolving to support our survival and healing.
Principles for Engaging with Traditional Ecological Knowledges in Urban Systems
These are working principles set forth by a group of Indigenous Peoples and Land-Kinned Peoples (IP & L-KP) who gathered in the UK. We see this both as a starting point and an evolving process. These principles are the first iteration, as they interact with more Peoples they will change and evolve.
Pathways to Poor Health (health injustice) for Indigenous Peoples
There are disproportionately high rates of psychological and psychological distress and health disparities among Indigenous Peoples. That is, regardless of their geographical location or sociopolitical situation, health indicators are always poorer for Indigenous Peoples than for non Indigenous ones.
Urban Sacrifice Zones & the Right to Pollute
The purpose of this data led study is to bring attention to everyday people those who have the right to pollute in their neighbourhoods, so that people can make more informed decisions when it comes to voting and priorities for our shared health and climate change action points.
The Mental Distress of Environmental Injustice
There is now a very clear understanding that environmental hazards, such as air pollution have a direct effect on our health. However, what is often missing from the conversation is how environmental hazards, due to being an experience of stress and trauma can lead to mental distress. In addition to the disproportionate exposure to health hazards, being aware of the injustice underlying this disproportionate exposure may be a psychosocial stressor that affects health negatively.
An Introduction to Trans Health
Trans Peoples have opened up our minds to another way of imagining our personhood, to have mental and spiritual autonomy over our beingness. Imagination and autonomy are significant and essential elements in our liberation which is rooted in our healing. This report is an introductory look at the different pathways of stress and trauma impacted Trans communities.
From Care to Healing
This report explores how healthcare, like many other systems, is under the hegemony of western society; how the body is conceptualised to how the body is restored are influenced by western norms. It explores how when we are in community, we are able to share resources, tend to each other, nourish each other - this is healing
Gender, Care, & Equity
This report explores how sex and gender are one way of conceptualising a complex ecosystem made up of multiple cells and microbes which digests, reproduces, thinks, and loves, rather than a universal truth.
Growing up in Crisis
This report is not intended to alarm, but to put the child to old age health trajectory into the context of planetary dysregulation and its secondary effects. Currently, children are experiencing multiple stressors or pathways of poor health; forced displacement, family separation, pollution of water, land, and air, acute weather events, malnutrition, poverty, and a global pandemic that is causing long term effects
The Planetary Dysregulation & Disabled Communities
This report provides a lived experience led insight into the inequities that put Disabled People’s health at risk further risk from climate change.
The Planetary Dysregulation & Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples are from all over the world and cover various and distinct cultures, languages, practices and knowledges. It is not a race nor is it a monolith. Colonisation has affected Indigenous Peoples in varied and unique ways, ripping some of us from Ancestral Lands, Peoples, and culture whilst others are currently fighting to keep their territories as colonisation continues to evolve.
The Planetary Dysregulation & Transgender Communities
This report provides a lived experience led insight into the inequities that put Transgender People’s health at risk further risk from climate change.
The Planetary Dysregulation & the Multi-Ethnic Working Class
This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems.
The Planetary Dysregulation
This report will focus on the pathways that are contributing to planetary dysregulation and their impacts on human health. With the purpose of updating policies that will support the work of environmental and health justice practitioners.
Depression as a Brain/Body Disease and its Links to Air Pollution
Depression is often framed as a mental health problem, however, the more we understand the more we uncover its physical symptomology. Additionally, it is important to understand how environmental factors, such as air pollution are contributing to its prevalence.
The Environmental Factors of Diabetes
We are going to use diabetes as a case study to produce three learnings. (1) Genetics are not the full story when it comes to non communicable diseases such as diabetes. (2) Understand that disease prevention and even cure is not just in the confines of medical institutions. (3) The need for geospatial studies to understand the interlink between diabetes and place.
Obesity & Trauma
This report will take an ecological approach, focusing on the bidirectional pathway between trauma and obesity to highlight the disparity between scientific evidence and communication around obesity, as well as the psychosocial factors that contribute to, and maintain, this disparity. This is to ensure health organisations and policies support a holistic and equitable prevention strategy for obesity.
Health as Ecological
This report lays out why there is a need to understand the history behind framing health as “individual choices” or “behaviours” to better appreciate what an ecological health approach looks like and its significance in eradicating health inequities.
Using Data for Health Justice
The mission of this report is to reframe the culture around data to ensure that we understand its limitations, reframe from supremacy to a tool for justice, and introduce a more accurate lexicon so we can better our collective understanding of data.
Data Culture Framework for Health Justice
Data does not operate in a vacuum as every part of the process is coloured by top down factors such as culture. Which data is collected, how it is analysed and the insights drawn from data are all decision points practitioners have to make and all practitioners belong to a specific culture which influences them.
Equitable Working with Community Expertise
In this report, we look at equitable engagement with community expertise and why it is essential to move towards equitable health solutions. We will define ‘equitable engagement’; reframe the relationship between community and science; and provide a ‘How To’ manual.