Curating resources

I enjoy seeking out and amplifying the wide range of ways in which people are living as if another world is possible.

It may well be the case that ‘another world is possible’ in the future only if growing numbers of people begin living in another world in the present moment John P. Clark, 2022

Over time, I have developed reliable processes for curating resources that are relevant to specific contexts on request. These include:

• Identifying the scope of a resource request
• Establishing familiarity with the relevant terminology and associated contexts
• Identifying the relevance of key concepts
• Systematically collecting, assessing, and organising resources as they relate to key concepts
• Synthesising and contextualising information from the relevant resources to provide an audience-appropriate entry-point to further explorations.

I often collect and contextualise sets of resources relevant to specific questions that emerge with the various projects and communities I contribute to. For a sample of resource collections I’ve curated, see:

• Transformative Approaches to Conflict Resolution
• Lessons in Solidarity: Collaboration Across Climate and Disability Movements
• What People Really Think of the Housing Crisis
• Resources for psychologists supporting non-binary youth

While most of my polished collections are offered to the Commons Social Change Library, I also share in-progress resource collections I’m in the process of preparing for myself and my various communities, including collections on:

• Housing as a Collective Responsibility
• Digital Tools for Collectives
• Collaborative Savings Concepts
• Meta-Communication Tools
• Zines amplifying marginalised voices

  

I also offer tailored resource curating for values-aligned projects. Hiring me to prepare resources for your own projects is one way to support my work collecting and amplifying creative commons resources.

To express appreciation for existing resource-sets, please direct financial expressions of support to the Commons Library and the following projects:

• Common Threads, a not-for-profit building “national campaigns for truth, Treaties, land rights and climate justice - while providing support and resources to grassroots movements across the continent”.
• Common Ground - “a First Nations not-for-profit that exists to centre First Nations people, Country and truth-telling [by building] on existing community power to strengthen the stories we tell ourselves and others, so we can reimagine stronger futures. Futures that are grounded in reciprocity, justice and truth-telling.”