Practice & Inquiry
Learning through experimentation, organisational practice, and critical reflection.
Substratum approaches movement infrastructure as an ongoing process of inquiry rather than a predetermined set of solutions.
Our work brings together existing scholarship, movement knowledge and organisational practice to explore how infrastructure is developed, sustained, shared and governed within youth-led movement ecosystems.
This space brings together our emerging frameworks, research, practice papers and reflections. Some are grounded in ongoing experimentation; others develop conceptual questions arising from our work and conversations across movement and philanthropic ecosystems.
We share these contributions as part of an evolving praxis: an opportunity to make our thinking visible, invite critical engagement and contribute to wider conversations about the organisational conditions that enable movements to endure and transform.
The ideas presented here are not necessarily settled findings or universal models. They are part of a continuing process of learning, questioning and refinement.
WORKING FRAMEWORK · 2026
The Five Domains of Organisational Infrastructure
An evolving framework examining the resource, operational, governance, knowledge and relational foundations of movement organisations. Developed through engagement with existing theory, movement knowledge and Substratum's ongoing organisational inquiry and experimentation.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION · JULY 2026
Care as Organisational Infrastructure: Global Crisis, Institutional Power, and the Reproduction of Harm
Uma Mishra-Newbery and Tina Ajuonuma
Presented at the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference in Galway, Ireland, July 2026.
An emerging inquiry into how care operates through organisational structures, institutional power and the reproduction of harm.
