Dudley People's School for Climate Justice
What if it was easier for people across Dudley borough to connect and collaborate to take action for flourishing futures for their community and our planet?
Everyone is learner, everyone is a teacher
We believe our local communities are among those who know the streets, neighbourhoods, towns, parks, ponds and canals of Dudley borough best. We also believe that local people have an abundance of ideas, skills, and knowledge. Exactly the kind of imagination, know-how and wisdom that is needed to help heal our vulnerable natural habitats. This is why we are experimenting with the idea of a People’s School. Made by local people, for local people.
Climate Justice
Climate justice is an approach to climate action that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on people and communities who are marginalised or vulnerable. The social and political structures that created the climate and nature crisis are the same structures and systems that create and uphold the inequalities that we see or experience in Dudley, across the UK, and around the world. Our work calls attention to systems and structures which aren’t serving people or our planet.
Year 1 learning
Year 2 learning
Kith and Kin LL report
Bringing the Stour to Life
The community-led, co-created project seeks to bring individuals, groups and communities together along the full course of the River Stour to collectively understand and sensitively improve, enjoy and protect the river.
See the project website
Growing Land Connections
Growing Land Connections is a collection of projects shaped and led by Ekho Collective CIC team, their community and collaborators. Each project invites deeper connection to other people, place, and the rest of nature. The projects are designed to spark conversations and action around climate justice.
Find out more on Ekho Collective's website
Getting into Hot Water
Getting into Hot Water, led by Workshop 24, explores our relationship with water and the natural world around us. Bringing our attention to water, questioning the habitual ways by which we know water, stimulating dialogue regarding human water relations and in the process engendering a process of curiosity, wonder and care.
Vist the Getting into Hot Water website
Stories of Place
Initiated by CoLab Dudley team member Holly, Stories of Place draws on collage, photos, stories, poetry, sounds, maps, research from the past, present and imagined futures of Dudley. Inspired by these stories, local people collaborate to prototype experiments to bring us closer to futures where we can flourish as part of our planet.
See more about Stories of Place