Author: Lorna Prescott
Infrastructures of care
Using regenerative principles to shape CoLab Dudley; sharing learning with our fellow travellers.
CoLab Dudley team
Two Days in Autumn
Nature Inspired Micro Commission Creatives: Helen, Jackie + Jo Venue: Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge Three artists came together in early November to host a weekend of workshops with attendees using foraged items to make beautiful autumnal colour dyes and botanical inks which were then use to experiment with. The workshops offered
Winter Cultural Collaborators Gathering
On the 7th December we held our final Cultural Collaborators Gathering of 2023. It was an opportunity for the Time Rebels of Dudley to share an update of the wonderful projects they have been co-creating with communities across the borough. In total 30 creatives have been commissioned this year
Author: Kerry O'Coy
Field Works: You have to go away to come back
Helen Garbett and Bill Laybourne - Workshop 24 In Garbett and Laybourne’s Compendium of Aphorisms, Sayings and Terms, the entry on page eight reads “You have to go away to come back”. This is a phrase we use often and it means that even though our work is hyper-locally
Author: Holly Doron
Regenerative research practice
In the second year of their practice based PhD with CoLab Dudley and Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Holly shares five emerging principles for regenerative research practice.
Playful mapping of Dudley’s cultural ecosystem
Using foraged autumn greens and browns as media to stimulate sharing on flows and niches in Dudley’s cultural ecosystem. A mini photo journal and jottings from conversations at the Cultural Collaborator’s Autumn Gathering, by CoLab Dudley team member Lorna Prescott. When we began introducing Dudley Creates: a 100
Hedgerow Syrup
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1131"] An invitation to Ekho Woods for Reclaiming Our Roots sessions [/caption] Reclaiming Our Roots is an experimental and creative community (re)connection experience designed by Time Rebel Deb McDonald, in collaboration with her fellow Director of Ekho Collective, Clare Evans,
Author: Kerry O'Coy
Summer Cultural Collaborators Gathering
The Time Rebels of Dudley invited local people to pop into CoLab Dudley on the High Street for the Summer Cultural Collaborators Seasonal Gathering to talk about their projects, share ideas, get creative and think about the kind of projects they’d like to be involved in. The Time to
Dudley People’s Archive
The Dudley People's Archive explores and celebrates Dudley’s rich heritage and vibrant present through photography, art, publications and stories. Time Rebel David began work on this project with Dudley Council’s Heritage team to explore imaginative ways to share stories that both look to the past while
Stitchers in Time
Stitchers in Time are disrupting narratives of isolation and decay in a post industrial town through relational and creative practices. The stitchers acknowledge past narratives of place and people whilst simultaneously reframing them within new narratives of Dudley that look to environmental technologies and ‘what could be…’. Each crafting
Author: Holly Doron
Stories of Place as compost and social imagination practice
Lab team member Holly reflects on a year of Stories of Place and the emergence of social imagination practice.
Author: Holly Doron
“So, what’s your PhD about?”
In the first year of their practice based PhD with CoLab Dudley and Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Holly considers how to develop an explanation of their research that sparks, not kills, curiosity and conversation.