Jul 15, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
Connor Rankin is founder and director of Studio ACV, a slow journalism practice and creative studio situated at the edges of world-making. Since 2019, the ACV team have worked alongside pioneering…
Connor RankinGuest
Chin Ru FooHost
So when we kind of were coming up with the idea of the publication and it wasn't going to be a publication at the time, we just wanted to connect to more people.
And it was kind of post lockdown when we were craving human connection and kind of wanting to understand, you know, how people were meeting up post that kind of wild period.
And we sort of were kind of ideating for a good few months and we had community as our kind of core of what we wanted to document in some way.
And we kept coming back to this term of an asset of community value, which essentially is a piece of legislation that community groups or organisations or just a group of people can apply to have granted on a piece of land, on a pub, on a community centre, something that they believe is beneficial to their local community.
And if granted, it enables more power to rival any society potential threat to that space.
So if a developer wants to take over the space, if this status is granted, it gives this group six months to organize and kind of come up with any rival bid to, you know, keep the space in community ownership or keep the space in kind of open and accessible to the public.
Essentially, when you Google ACV, all you see is apple cider vinegar blog posts.
So we kind of wanted to, you know, have a little bit of spirit of keeping that kind of front and center.
So it's an important call to action, but also just felt right for what we were doing.
I haven't had the chance to read the first issue, so I'm wondering what the content was like and how it might have changed and evolved over time.
So when we kind of were coming up with the idea of the publication and it wasn't going to be a publication at the time, we just wanted to connect to more people.
And it was kind of post lockdown when we were craving human connection and kind of wanting to understand, you know, how people were meeting up post that kind of wild period.
And we sort of were kind of ideating for a good few months and we had community as our kind of core of what we wanted to document in some way.
And we kept coming back to this term of an asset of community value, which essentially is a piece of legislation that community groups or organisations or just a group of people can apply to have granted on a piece of land, on a pub, on a community centre, something that they believe is beneficial to their local community.
And if granted, it enables more power to rival any society potential threat to that space.
So if a developer wants to take over the space, if this status is granted, it gives this group six months to organize and kind of come up with any rival bid to, you know, keep the space in community ownership or keep the space in kind of open and accessible to the public.
Essentially, when you Google ACV, all you see is apple cider vinegar blog posts.
So we kind of wanted to, you know, have a little bit of spirit of keeping that kind of front and center.
So it's an important call to action, but also just felt right for what we were doing.
I haven't had the chance to read the first issue, so I'm wondering what the content was like and how it might have changed and evolved over time.
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