Contribute

How Contributions Can Support Learning

Contributions can help people:

• learn about experiences that differ from their own;

• compare experiences across projects, communities, roles, or places;

• notice recurring issues, questions, or gaps;

• connect lived experience with practical, technical, research, or policy knowledge;

• inform research, planning, practice, education, or discussion; and

• identify questions that need further attention.

A contribution does not have to provide a solution to be useful. Questions, disagreements, incomplete experiences, and lessons from work that did not go as expected can also help others learn.

Publication in the Living Compendium does not mean that the project has verified every statement as fact, endorsed the contribution, or accepted it as professional advice. Contributions may reflect different experiences and points of view.

Sharing a contribution does not guarantee that it will lead to a policy, program, project, or other action.

 

What You Can Contribute

You can share something you have experienced, observed, learned, tried, or wondered about. Contributions might come from daily life, work, research, community involvement, a project, or another experience with housing and building systems.

Contributions can include:

• personal or community experiences;

• practical or professional knowledge;

• observations about housing or building systems;

• lessons from projects, programs, or other work;

• technical or research knowledge;

• policy or system observations;

• questions that do not yet have clear answers;

• challenges, disagreements, or unexpected results; and

• photos, drawings, audio, video, or other media that help explain an experience or observation.

You do not need to be an expert or have a finished answer. An experience, observation, question, difficulty, or lesson can be useful to others.

 

Before You Submit

Please do not include information that you do not have permission to make public.

Before publication, some material may need to be removed, changed, or clarified. This could include:

• personal information about another person who has not agreed to be identified;

• private contact information, such as a home address, personal phone number, or private email address;

• confidential or protected information;

• photos, recordings, or stories that identify other people without their permission;

• copyrighted material that you do not have permission to share;

• information that could create a safety or security risk; or

• material unrelated to the purpose of the Living Compendium.