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.

How the Living Encyclopedia works

The Living Encyclopedia is colour coded to help guide people to the right type of content. Here’s a quick guide to what each category means.

ARTICLE

a short form essay-like piece of work

DATA-STUDY

a data led exploration into a topic

DECLARATION

a declaration made by a group of People

DEFINITION

short form copy detailing a specific phenomema

IMAGINATION LAB

a special event to ideate on a specific topic

PAMPHLET

a shareable output from research

AUDIO REPORT

a spoken word conversation and reporting

REPORT

a long form piece of work

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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