The Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how to share it.

The BCK's mission and meaning is to create, protect and expand knowledge, exchange and spread. To bring about re-evaluation into common knowledge.

Their motivation is also to have individual and collective needs becoming more autonomous, and to somehow answer the general lack of resources for everyday issues. In short: urban survival. They look for alternative, cheap and affordable, even free ways to find answers to all sort of needs. They share practical or theoretical knowledge in all disciplines, from medical to crafts, to technology to civil rights. All we need to know for the every day life. They collect share and protect knowledge rarely valued, common knowledge in traces to be lost, knowledge locked on a patent system, knowledge not able to be approved by science. All matters.

The Bank of Common Knowledge wants to allow people conscious of the value of knowledge to assemble, produce, create and transmit in new communication and exchange circuits, free from restrictive hierarchical roles. Everyone is invited to participate, namely by sending them or recommending DIY manuals (text, audio, video), experts or reports of similar experiences.

If you're willing to share your time and knowledge in the fields of health, technology and communication, alternative economies, ecology, civil and human rights, public space use or any knowledge to make life easier and more autonomous, you should get in touch with the Banck of Common Knowledge.

The Bank of Common Knowledge is organized as an open source model of knowledge transfer, a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and distribution, involving new roles for producers and receivers, experts and amateurs, teachers and students, as well as new relationships between the production of image, text, and audio material and their subsequent diffusion in the public space.

Copyleft ethics:
The philosophy of copyleft is here applied to the transmission of knowledge. The starting point is the idea beyond the commons, the common land. But,
what is a common? The concept comes from mediaeval England, when it was decided to protect some land from the expansion of private developments. It was necessary to keep access to other lands around them. Then those common spaces where also commonly managed. The Bank of Common Knowledge wants to expand this concept originally linked to land into knowledge and comunication. From the physical territoire we move to the inmaterial production. The understanding of knowledge and public comunication spaces as common spaces to be protected, expanded and shared.