Our Work
Our core team consists of neuroscientists, health researchers, and urban geographers who investigate, alongside an ecosystem of like-minded researchers and community organisations, how biological inequity manifests in neighbourhoods and Peoples that have been racialised and marginalised.
We build open-access community tools, create justice-led narratives and framings of health, and provide organisations with expertise and insights on health, communities, and place
We work with organisations in two capacities:
As Advisors & Activists
Through giving workshops and talks, we say it how it is. We help organisations understand what are the key issues that need to be paying attention to in order to reduce health inequities for a just, equitable future, and principles to embody a health justice praxis within their work.
As Authors & Adversaries
We work alongside an organisation, underpinned by a series of strict principles, to co-create health justice oriented solutions from the ground up. This normally manifests in producing written work or running programmes.
Our work fits into 3 categorites
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Community Knowledge Building
Platforms for peer-to-peer learning and knowledge dissemination
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Imaginations & Epistemologies
Knowledges for creating non-supremacy narratives and thought processes
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Open Access Tools for Justice
Free tools for communities seeking environmental and health justice
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Projects
A Declaration: a spiritual and cognitive tool to be used to generate a rallying cry, a demand, invocation, a wish, or a prayer to enact Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods.
The mission of the project is to move towards the abolition of “Right to Pollute” policies and to facilitate healing pathways for communities impacted by air pollution.
We have put together a propositional paper that we feel shows how an infrastructure can be created to support this depth of knowledge surfacing. Resourcing radical knowledge infrastructure means to create the financial, cultural, and equitable pathways for people, groups and movements to create, surface, resurface, and amplify knowledges without restriction, in order to build community power.
What if an impact assessment was designed by the people who live in the neighbourhoods that will be assessed?
Facilitating a workshop with the Breathe London Community Programme on methods to visualise air pollution data for justice.
Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods is a peer-to-peer learning journey for people interested in addressing systemic inequities to communally create neighbourhoods that are life-sustaining, providing people and Nature with health, dignity, and justice.
Working alongside a global engineering firm to provide an inclusivity and accessibility framework for the Euston Overstation Development masterplan.
Healing imaginations is a digital platform to build an ongoing library of healing practices and frameworks outside the confines of western epistemology. Let's root our imaginations together and set forth healing practices for our liberation.
A project with about how to match a multi-stakeholder health innovation partnership to the needs of East Londoners. SHIFT wanted to understand more about the place based determinants of health, what role can this new collaboration have on the health of east Londoners, and how does innovation fit within this?
A project for the British Council for Offices leading to the production of a playbook for the commercial real estate sector looking at how neurodiversity, employment and office spaces intersect to enact health and social justice.
Biological Inequity is the metric used to identify which places put more biological stress on the human system. Centric Lab has partnered with CGG, a global geoscience technology company, to create a Biological Inequities Index of Great Britain.
The Community Engagement team at the Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned this report to identify and map community-led projects and insights that focus on environmental issues and concerns in four London boroughs; Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Waltham Forest.
Centric were part of a winning consortium led by NOOMA Studio working for Cross River Partnership (CRP), a non-profit and impartial partnership organisation that has been delivering positive change for London’s residents, businesses and visitors for over 25 years. CRP members were looking for guidance to navigate the multiple demands of London’s streets.
Our mission: to create mass awareness of how the places we live impact our health. The more of us are aware of how our health is impacted by the places we live the faster we heal.
A keynote presentation delivered for the United Nations Development Programme looking at what alternative infrastructures can we imagine once we move beyond the current Covid pandemic lock-ins, and how can geospatial data be then ethically used to understand health at a city level?
Know Your Health is an online survey and downloadable ‘playbook’ that will empower people living in, managing or conceiving cities to take action to create opportunities for better health, through improving their local environment, community and personal habits.
The Urban Health Council is an open-access programme where researchers, communities, and practitioners investigate how systems of power converge in cities to create health outcomes. It centres lived experience at the forefront of knowledge development and aims to influence local government and authority policy.
A data led study for the Environmental Defense Fund to better understand how can policy makers equitably make London’s Red Routes “green”?
Providing scientific support for lawyers advocating for early release.
Our podcast is a place where we have conversations of hope and progression.
Our contribution to the Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal: a Special Issue that sets out the case for a systematised intellectual and practice-based discipline and movement: an urban psychology, with an explicit therapeutic mission.
How does city planning and infrastructure play a role in health?
A research piece for Guy’ & St. Thomas’ Charity looking into how air pollution contributes to diabetes distribution in Southwark and Lambeth communities?
How does air pollution affect community health?
Working directly with a development team from Grosvenor Americas to influence how their masterplan makes positive health impacts in the local Washington D.C. community?
Producing a science lexicon and research base for the technology company Moody on what does health mean for women in the 21st century?
How can a new district preserve community health in the face of climate change?
A first of its kind, this project was a close collaboration between Future Cities Catapult, Centric Lab and University College London.