Collaborations

Understand places. Activate communities. Turn needs into action.

Living Commons works with institutions, foundations, social enterprises, universities and national networks that want to understand a place, engage its actors and build initiatives that create lasting social value.

We act as a territorial and project partner, combining social research, listening, facilitation, design and evaluation with the ability to activate local relationships and resources.

How we can work together

Local partner for research and data collection

For organisations with a methodology, study or programme to implement locally that need a trusted partner able to reach the right people.

Stakeholder and resource mapping
Identification and engagement of local actors
Interviews, focus groups and qualitative research
Field data and evidence collection
Local implementation of national methodologies

Listening, facilitation and co-design

We create processes through which institutions, organisations and communities can understand a challenge together and turn it into shared priorities and action.

Needs analysis and territorial observation
Design and facilitation of workshops and roundtables
Participatory and co-design processes
Community and network activation
Synthesis and learning reports

Dialogue and intentional encounters

We design one-to-one encounters between people who would rarely meet, within and across different communities. Matching can prioritise affinity, complementarity or diversity, supported by clear rules of engagement and a safe context.

Matching criteria and process design
High-affinity or high-diversity encounters
Connections across communities, places and countries
Rules of engagement and safeguarding
Experience monitoring and learning

Project design, development and evaluation

We support organisations and partnerships from needs assessment to project design, monitoring and evaluation.

Theory of change and project design
Partnership and intervention architecture
Indicators, monitoring and evaluation
Territorial and social project development
Learning, transferability and scaling

How we work

We start from listening, evidence and existing relationships, combining local knowledge and method to build realistic, useful interventions that can outlast a single project.

Living Commons

When we can be the right partner

You have a national programme to implement locally
You need data, interviews or testimonies from Sicily
You want to understand a community’s needs and assets
You want to create meaningful encounters between people or communities that would not normally meet
You need to build or facilitate a local network
You are designing a social initiative and want to strengthen its method, partnerships or evaluation

If reading about Living Commons sparks an idea about how we could help your project, organisation or place, get in touch: we can shape a collaboration together, aligned with our vision and with the real needs of the context.