Building Human-Centered Knowledge Systems
Our work is sustained by collaborations with universities, research centers, and public-interest organizations internationally. While grounded in academic research, the Lab’s approach is experimental and applied: we build working technologies that embody our theoretical commitments.
Knowledge Ecologies: The social and technical infrastructures that enable collective intelligence, scholarly dialogue, and open participation.
Scholarly Communication Systems: Peer review, publication, and dissemination in digital and post-digital environments.
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Designing AI tools that enhance reflection, learning, and creativity while safeguarding human values.
Learning and Assessment Design: Exploring new paradigms of e-learning, formative assessment, and reflexive pedagogy through digital platforms.
Digital Knowledge Economies: Investigating sustainable models of value, reward, and recognition in open knowledge systems.
The Common Ground Media Lab approaches media not as a channel for information, but as a social and epistemological space—a medium through which knowledge is shaped, contested, and transformed. Our work combines conceptual inquiry with design-based research, producing both theoretical insight and functional prototypes. Through this dual practice, we aim to demonstrate how digital systems can embody principles of inclusivity, transparency, and sustainability—principles that have guided Common Ground since its founding in 1984.
