The Collective Tools Project provides a set of practical and theoretical tools designed to facilitate, support, and improve cooperation. These tools help raise awareness of how we exist within our groups and encourage us to act with care and intentionality in our interactions.

This action-research project focuses on ways to enable a collective to function harmoniously while achieving its goals, promoting the inclusion of each member, and valuing the exchange and sharing of tools. The project’s core ethics emphasize the importance of giving a voice to all, respecting individual boundaries, and utilizing each person’s abilities appropriately, while prioritizing the group's quality of life over the outcomes of its work.

The Collective Tools Project was created by eight white people from different generations, including women, non-binary people, and men. We are of European origin and based in Switzerland. We have undergone professional, artistic, and academic training. The identities we carry and the associated privileges and oppressions inform our work and serve as the foundation for our reflections.

The Collective Tools Project draws its inspiration from diverse contexts, including co-living communities, specialized literature, personal experiences and activist environments. The project recognizes the diversity of knowledge sources and the universal need for effective collaboration, regardless of political or social differences. Users are encouraged to take ownership of these tools, which are freely available and easy to access, designed to be used without specific skills. However, we assert that collective work requires significant collective and personal investment. It demands learning, self-reflection, and dedication of time, energy, and care. The project remains open to change and improvement based on user feedback, in a spirit of fluidity and constant questioning.

The Collective Tools Project is aimed at all environments, groups, and organizations where collectivity exists, whether in social, artistic, activist, co-living, educational settings, etc. It is primarily intended for groups that either function or wish to learn to function through self-management and shared governance.