Research at Community Game
Independent, community-oriented research.
Community Game is a volunteer-run community project. Alongside our neighborhood events, we pursue independent research — applying open scholarly literature and public data to questions about communities, systems, and local life.
What we look into
Our reading ranges widely, but keeps circling a few questions about how communities and organizations actually work and stay healthy.
Systems & organizations
Cybernetics, systems thinking, and how groups self-organize and stay viable.
Local economy & place
Neighborhood change, housing, land use, and regional economic analysis.
Public health & wellbeing
Community health, social determinants, and what helps people thrive locally.
Governance & policy
Public funding, regulation, and how civic decisions get made and evaluated.
How we work
We built a small, custodial research pipeline that finds, captures, and organizes open-access scholarly literature losslessly — keeping every source verbatim and traceable, so claims stay anchored to what was actually published. It draws on open, public scholarly sources, including:
The emphasis is on rigor, provenance, and open data — reading primary sources carefully rather than skimming summaries.
Get in touch
We're a small, independent effort and happy to hear from people working on similar things.