Stories of Place 2024–2025 Composting #3 | Co-creators as Earthworms
Learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators at the end of 2024.
CoLab Dudley team
Stories of Place 2024 Composting #2 | Principles as a compost bed
Holly is researching how we might invite regenerative cultures. A year ago Holly shared regenerative principles emerging from their research. Here they share why and how these principles emerged and are still evolving.
Stories of Place 2024 Composting #1 | Gift gathering
A collection of gifts: an abundance of co-created Stories of Place resources, experiments and explorations through the seasons in 2024.
Dudley Time Portal | Dreaming of a 100 year archive
What if there was a digital archive that cared for and shared place-based knowledges to inspire cultural climate action? This lab note shares early steps in living this question, as community technologists and people who care about Dudley begin co-creating the Dudley Time Portal.
Visual composting
At the end of their second year of their practice based PhD with CoLab Dudley and Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Holly shares experimentation with visual ways of sense-making through their learning journey, Stories of Place, and conversations.
Participatory Culture and Cultural Democracy in Dudley
A look at CoLab Dudley activity over 10 years, engaging hundreds of local people in experimention around cultural democracy.
Dudley Time Rebel Mission 2023
Five stories of local creatives breathing life into Dudley Creates — a 100 year cultural strategy in ACTION
Author: Kerry O'Coy
Photo Journal: Rehearsing the Futures We Want
Date of gathering: Thursday 8th December 2022, 12-3pm A throwback to our very FIRST Cultural Collaborators Gathering and the launch of the Dudley Creates network. Photos from a gathering held on 8 December 2022 in the Imaginarium at CoLab Dudley on Dudley High Street. This was an invitation from Dudley&
An emergent story of regenerative learning infrastructure
This is a story of the learning soil that forms part of the foundation of Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
Co-creating Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
A Lab Note on the progress of an idea to a funded demonstrator over 14 months.
Stories of Place meets Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
Over four sessions, Stories of Place co-creators reconnected with previous ideas to evolve new ones, and harvested seeds of ideas to store over winter - ready for Stories of Place to re-emerge as part of the Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice in 2024.
Author: Lorna Prescott
Infrastructures of care
Using regenerative principles to shape CoLab Dudley; sharing learning with our fellow travellers.