This is a live workspace (rather than a traditional website). It’s a further experiment in sharing what we’re doing as we do it. It will be in perpetual beta. Expect things to evolve and change constantly!
Why we’re inviting you into our workspace
Learning to live in harmony with the ecological, cultural and historical realities of our place. Explorations in Dudley borough emerging from autumn 2025.
↗︎ More details coming in September 2025
Projects and enquiries involving local people, inviting nature connection. Taking place across Dudley borough between spring 2024 and winter 2026.
↗︎ More details coming in September 2025
Bringing people together to consider relationships, time and place. Exploring community action using maps, games and making. Taking place with communities in Dudley borough, south Derbyshire, Minehead and Watchet between spring 2025 and winter 2028.
↗︎ More details coming in September 2025
We’re a small team with experience and knowledge of a range of practices and approaches. We work in collaboration with lots of incredible people.
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We weave networks of care and reciprocity, creating conditions for collaboration among people seeking to repair our relationship to land.
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We cultivate community-led action that invites people to think differently about the places they live, work and play in.
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Get in touch with our team.
Come to activities in our lab space.
See our learning online.
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Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, as well as being an author of several books and host of the podcast From What If to What Next, which ran from 2020-2024. We’ve long been entranced by Rob’s storytelling and have truly taken on board his suggestion that we ask What If…?
We’re absolutely delighted that our work is featured in Rob Hopkin’s new book, How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Travellers Guide to Changing the World.
This book is packed with incredibly inspiring stories of real change happening right now in communities, which help us to form hopeful visions of our futures. We highly recommend checking it out, and visiting Rob’s website.
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Everything on our site is handwritten. Nothing on in this workspace is generated by AI.
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CoLab Dudley is convened by Dudley CVS
CoLab Dudley work is supported by JRF’s Emerging Futures programme.
Our work on Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice and Understory is supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
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