Artist and organizer Sam Gould co-founded the cultural collective Red76, conceived the neighborhood based initiative Beyond Repair, and is a co-founder and director of Confluence: An Eastlake Studio for Community Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seeing publication as an act of public making, his work often focuses on sociality, education, and encountering the political within daily life.

Tools in Common is a compendium of this work, from 2000 to the present, with a focus on projects, platforms, publications, writing, and various experiments along the way.