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
- Covid
- Covid-19
- 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
- PTSD
- Racism
- Regeneration
- Science
- Stress
- Trans Health
- Transport
- Trauma
- Urban Planning
- Women
- Workforce
Mapping & navigating British systems of power
This working board is for people who are not “professionals” within the legal, policy, or advocacy space (NGOs) but for community-led organisers looking to develop action plans and theory of change models. The MIRO board has a series of instructions after an introduction section that you can refer to at different times.
Environmental Data for Health Justice Working Board
The purpose of the Environmental Data for Health Justice board is to build confidence in how those seeking structural health justice outcomes through research, campaigns, and other forms of advocacy use data as a language to directly address health injustices and develop strategies for health justice.
Endocrine Disruptors
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that are ingested from our external environment through our skin, respiratory tracks, and mouth.
Biological Inequity
Biological inequity, also known as biological inequality, refers to “systematic, unfair, and avoidable stress-related biological differences which increase risk of disease, observed between social groups of a population”.
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.
Heating & a Healing Home
This data led article explores how this winter homes in areas of high pollution and deprivation with low EPC ratings are a toxic cocktail for health risks.
Gasworks, Regeneration and Communities
This article explores how “regeneration” is a word used to promote positive benefit from construction and urbanisation. It focuses on the “regeneration” of former gasworks, brownfield sites, in existing urbanised areas and the health implications with an economic led “regeneration” mantra.
Susceptibility
At the crux of this theory is that when the body is faced with stressors it adapts through a process called allostasis, which means “achieving stability/homeostasis through change”.
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.
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.
Community Sovereignty
Community Sovereignty is an umbrella term that brings together methods of practice for organisations and scientific researchers to establish equitable engagement with communities.
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.
Knowledge Supremacy
This is a term identified by Centric Lab to define a knowledge pool that self-identifies as supreme to systematically dictate the knowledges that are valuable, trusted, and acknowledged, resulting in hegemonic policies that affect our health.
Psychosocial factors of stress
Our body does not only suffer chronic stress due to pollutants. Psychosocial factors also play a part in our long-term health. The psychosocial relationship to health is a widely investigated field.
Equitable Urban Mobility
This report is for those working in transport planning and in policy and who are interested in understanding the link between equitable mobility and health. This report will lay out the need for equitable solutions around transport, how health is related to mobility, and a breakdown of equitable mobility zones.
Stressors & the Stress Response
A stressor is defined as a novel threatening environmental agent that alters the baseline human biological system in either of two ways: bringing the system to an unstable biological state, or slowing down the system’s internal response so that it cannot reach equilibrium.
Gaslighting Communities
Environmental inequity is the systemic, avoidable, and unjust distribution of ecologically healthy environments (those that are free from pollutants, have high biodiversity, and have a healthy microbiome). It also refers to land being unjustly stolen, polluted, or damaged. In this essay, we will be detailing the pathways of oppression, including the role that science, policy, and city organisers play.
Air Pollution, Susceptibility, and COVID-19 Learnings.
It is imperative for health organisations to provide guidelines based on the specific population under investigation: what is the susceptibility to health hazards of the individuals in the community?
COVID-19 & Biological Inequality; a London Data Study
This paper investigates how COVID-19 is interacting with these environments and their communities, specifically Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the UK. Specifically, this paper will look at the phenomenon of biological inequality and its relation to COVID-19 in BAME communities of London.
Air Pollution and Health in Southall, London
Centric Lab worked alongside Clean Air for Southall & Hayes to design a susceptibility study. This was in aid of demonstrating to authorities that current regulations on air pollution limits and management techniques fail those already exposed to high levels of environmental and psychosocial stressors, such as the multi-ethnic working class community of Southall, west London.
Impoverished Neighbourhoods, PTSD & Climate Change Risk
This document illustrates the systemic and biological relationship between people and their habitats. Secondly, we are seeing an increase of mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and PTSD as well as metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.