Creating a model of participatory exchange for publishing practitioners and community members to better serve the forms of knowledge emerging from grassroots communities
The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce that we have awarded funding to the first three recipients of our Collective Development Fund. In our last two posts, we introduced our first and second awardees and projects. This post introduces the third project we are funding, to commence in January 2025.
Project 3: The Community Publishing Garden: Centring Grassroots Publishing Initiatives in the Open Book Publishing System
Host organisation: Radish Press
Led by: Zoe Wake Hyde, Radish Press, Canada (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9523-6635) and Kath Burton, Publicly Engaged Publishing, UK (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7785-9604)
Countries: Canada and UK
Award: £7,500
This project aims to create a model of participatory exchange for publishing practitioners and community members to better serve the forms of knowledge emerging from grassroots communities (projects and programmes that are defined by the wants and needs of the people involved). Taking inspiration from permaculture principles (earth care, people care, fair share), The Community Publishing Garden will centre and support grassroots publishing initiatives in the open book publishing system, comprising a digital space for community engagement, collaboration and design. The aim is to develop radically inclusive open publishing models that support the diverse forms of knowledge production emerging from grassroots communities. In addition, the project will result in one dynamic material output that supports the digital distribution of open knowledge.
In keeping with the OBC key values, this a community-led project supporting our principles of bibliodiversity and scaling small.
Zoe and Kath and their collaborators will be providing updates and reports on this critical work here on the OBC blog. Our next call will open in 2025.