Author: Lorna Prescott
Expressing our Emergent Strategy: Restorying our Relationships with Land
An account of CoLab Dudley’s first ever team retreat, which took place over two days in May, and notes from a subsequent network session.
CoLab Dudley team
Author: Lorna Prescott
The Kith & Kin Living Lab: a field building approach to evaluation
Why and how we co-created a Kith & Kin Living Lab to explore Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice work.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Decolonising our learning practices and the role of semi-permeable boundary holding
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on decolonising our learning practices and the role of semi-permeable boundary holding
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Diversifying data gathering to cultivate inhabitancy
An exploration of four practical strategies we use in our collective learning practice to diversify data gathering to cultivate inhabitancy. Inhabitancy and kithship; Diversifying data gathering and multi-species learning; Accountability to future generations; and Language and collective learning.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Commoning knowledge, knowledge weaving and relational ethics
We urgently need new ways of learning together, and ways of diversifying the data we gather and how we relate to it. We should be commoning knowledge for intergenerational and interspecies justice, not extracting, hoarding, and enclosing it.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Values led developmental evaluation
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on values led developmental evaluation - a practice that supports diversifying evidence and value in our collective learning.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
detectorism: a co-evolving story
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on “detectorism” as the foundation to our collective learning and why we learn like this.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Collective learning is a liberatory practice that ripples through the cultural waters we swim in
The story of deep shifts invited through our collective learning that cultivate conditions for redistribution of power, rehearsing regenerative relationships with place, and expanding our circles of accountability.
Author: Holly Doron
Flourishing Edges Unconference
Creative documentation and stories from a co-created gathering rehearsing learning processes that bring us closer to flourishing futures, which took place in Dudley Borough over 3 days in April 2025.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
What IF … we shared our learning in a radically transparent and generous way?
Makespace and CoLab Dudley rehearse commoning our knowledges
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to do all of this together on a journey from ‘me’ to ‘we’?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around collaboration. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
What helps, or could help, us to care across time?
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around caring for the future. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.