We work towards epistemic (i.e. knowledge) justice. To us, this means making knowledge generation and transfer more equitable through centring creative and community-led enquiry and engagement.
We envision a public platform that facilitates society to dialogue with itself, grappling with paradoxes, politics, and conflicting paradigms. We believe that knowledge is a form of power, and that powerful forces seek to control how different forms of knowledge are valued, generated and transferred in our society. In a decolonial epistemic turn, the oppressed becomes the questioner, thinker, theorist, writer and communicator (Maldonaro-Torres). Our ways of knowing are expanded to include the aesthetic, erotic, spiritual, and other neglected ways of experiencing and understanding the world - while not negating the role and value of the scientific when it is not captured by the elite to further oppression.
Our work is then to make knowledge more accessible - whether through new forms of enquiry or revisiting and re-packaging existing knowledge.
Knowledge Justice
In practice this means:
Using storytelling, lived experience and art as valid methods for knowledge generation and transfer
Collecting lost and threatened knowledge
Running research programmes with and by youth and others
Using participatory action research, participatory approaches and applied transdisciplinary methodologies
Using speculative and inclusive design principles
Using artivism and reverse public engagement models that surface local issues and imagine alternative futures
Facilitating interfaith dialogues
Promoting free and open access to information