Mombartz → Ideas → Community Canvas

The Community Canvas is an open framework for building and running communities, organized around three parts: Identity, Experience, and Structure. It has been translated into 15 languages and used by more than 300,000 community builders worldwide.

The idea came from Fabian Pfortmüller, who drew on his years building Sandbox, a global community of young entrepreneurs. I worked with him to turn that experience into a system that likeminded community builers could use. I helped shape the framework, edited the copy, and designed and illustrated the publication.

The guidebook cover, version 1.0, May 2017

Two guidebook spreads: an overview of the three sections, Identity in blue, Experience in red and Structure in green, and an Identity page on Purpose that asks why the community exists, next to the compass illustration — Three sections, each with its own colour, and every page a set of questions

Twelve line illustrations in three rows: blue icons for Identity such as a fingerprint, a trophy, a flag and a scale; red icons for Experience such as a suitcase and a rulebook; green icons for Structure such as an org chart, a certificate, a bar chart and a grid of shapes — One illustration for each theme in the framework

Three pages from the Barranquilla Community Ecosystem final report: A City Leaders Community, Project Process with a map of the city's districts, and Recommendations with an aerial photo of the city and the river — The Canvas put to work: the Barranquilla Community Ecosystem report

Two printed copies of the Barranquilla Community Ecosystem Final Report on a yellow background, the cover a blue and white map of the city and its river — The Barranquilla report in print

More at community-canvas.org.