Commons Lab

We’re building an institution to act as a local social research lab, driven by need, rather than just ideas. The lab will look at commons governance and policies, developing scalable tools for ethnographic research, to work out what kinds of things communities need, how the commons can be framed, find any divisions in communities and how to build cohesion so that people can work together. 

It will involve specialists in social research, identity and culture, economic modelling and governance, as well as community-based practitioners. It will become an ecosystem, with community involvement, developing things for Stroud – but as models become viable, we have the infrastructure to distribute them more widely. We’re currently developing an investor pitch to kickstart the process.

If you’d like to get involved, get in touch.