Radical Infrastructure for Communal Healing
Centric Lab are prototyping ways to use health-based scientific evidence to support justice movements, surface and socialise non-western epistemologies and create language to articulate the health injustices felt by many racialised and marginalised communities.
OUR GOAL
To support organisers, grassroots groups, and justice-led organisations to facilitate a health justice practice within and for their communities.
We aim to do this by building open-access community tools, creating justice-led narratives and framings of health, and provide organisations with expertise and insights on health, communities, and place.
Currently Working On
OUR PROCESS FOR JUSTICE
While we are a traditional scientific lab, we recognise that science alone will not lead us to justice. This is led us to creating a "process for justice". Technically, this is not “our” process, it is from the Zapatista, the Black Panther Party, and various other justice movements who seek healing that is rooted in dignity, kinship, and love.
ROOTS OF A SYSTEM
Starting every journey with epistemological studies to change cognitive framings of health
KNOWING A SYSTEM
Identifying the policies and structures that lead to health and environmnetal justice
HEALTH OUTCOMES
Identifying how injustice is linked to disease and poor health at a community level
HEALING PATHWAYS
Tools and methods to work in communion with people that lead to health justice
We all deserve the dignity to breathe air without pollutants, live in neighbourhoods that support life, drink nourishing water, and live without oppression. We exist to walk with those committed to health justice.
We partnered with Guppi Bola and Dr. Rhiannon Mihranian to create a four part audio series that links the knowledge roots of oppressive policies, polluted environments that dysregulate our planetary systems, and health outcomes. If you are interested in understanding why we do our work, please have a listen.