Current Work
What if change begins not with a single project - but with many interconnected practices, unfolding together in place?
Our work is not one thing. It is a growing ecology of practices, relationships, and enquiries - rooted in Dudley borough, and connected to wider networks of learning and action. Each part explores a different question. Each creates different kinds of spaces. But they are all connected.
A clear intention
Across our work, we are exploring:
How can we live well together - with each other, with place, and with the more-than-human world - in a time of profound change?
We don’t approach this through a single programme or solution. Instead, we create the conditions for learning, connection, imagination and action to emerge together.
A constellation of enquiries
Our current work is held through a number of interconnected enquiries. Each one is a different doorway into the same wider exploration.
🔎 Sensing in place / bioregioning
A growing exploration of how we might reconnect with the ecological, cultural, and historical realities of place.
Through a bioregional learning network, local people are beginning to explore what it means to live in ways that are more deeply attuned to the places we are part of.
“Wow, my feet are just touching the ground! A vital happening happened last night. Feel good vibes and connections are already gushing through that portal opening.” - Cecilia, nature seeker, strong affinity to trees.
🌿 Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
A living, evolving learning assemblage. A space where people come together through creative practice, shared enquiry, and experimentation - to explore how we might respond to the challenges of our time.
Learning here is not separate from action. It is part of how change happens.
“Relationships are already important in Dudley, both in general and in the partners’ ways of working. So, the School built on this conviviality, extending out to more-than-human kin and different modes of practice.” - Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates and Climate Museum UK.
🪱 Understory
An exploration of connection, attachment, and belonging.
Working across multiple places, Understory seeks to make visible the relationships, stories, and histories that shape a place. And to explore how strengthening these connections might support communities to act and create together.
“What if we support community by exploring and nurturing connections to each other, place, local nature and mythology to grow the conditions for hope, collective joy and a less isolated and scary future together?” - Isabelle Fraser, Understory Network Weaver, Watchet
How our work connects
The enquiries are not separate strands. They are part of a shared practice.
- Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice creates spaces for learning and experimentation
- Understory deepens our understanding of connection and belonging
- Bioregioning grounds this work in place and ecological reality
Together, they help us to notice what is happening, imagine what might be possible, build relationships and take action in response.
An evolving ecology
Our work is not fixed, it shifts and grows over time - as new questions emerge, as relationships deepen, and as learning unfolds.
Some aspects of our work will grow. Others may fade. Many are compost for future work. New activity will always emerge.
Bioregional Learning
What if we learned to live in ways that are deeply attuned to the places we are part of?
Learning with our local communityDudley People's School for Climate Justice
What if learning for climate justice wasn’t a course - but something we build and practice together, in place?
About our 'unschool'Understory
What if connection - to each other, to place, to story - could help us face the futures ahead, together?
About UnderstoryYou don’t need to understand all of this to take part. You might enter through one doorway. It could be a project, a conversation, a question. From there, you can weave your own path through this work.
