Our cultures and the climate crisis are interdependent. Dudley faces similar challenges to many places across the UK around barriers limiting who takes part and shapes local cultures. However alternative creative futures are possible - we just need take intentional cultural action. We consistently do this through our network weaving, bioregioning and collective imagination work. This collection of stories from speaks to our ongoing action to cultivate cultural democracy in Dudley borough.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
How might counter-mapping alter how we inhabit and navigate the world? Photos, resources and reflections from counter-mapping learning huddles and Unschool counter-mapping.
Author: Holly Doron
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
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around action for just futures. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.
Author: Holly Doron
Learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators at the end of 2024.
Author: Holly Doron
A collection of gifts: an abundance of co-created Stories of Place resources, experiments and explorations through the seasons in 2024.
Author: Holly Doron
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.
Author: Holly Doron
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: Holly Doron
Lab team member Holly reflects on a year of Stories of Place and the emergence of social imagination practice.
Author: Holly Doron
What if we connected with stories of place from past, present and future to collectively dream of regenerative futures, and make these futures more tangible in the present? Holly shares ways that this question is being lived through Stories of Place.
Author: Holly Doron
Situating street detectorism in deep time led to the development of a collective archive and a rhythm of people gathering to explore and generate Stories of Place.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
At CoLab Dudley we do and learn together.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
We are a social lab that lives on Dudley High Street. Not the shiny, cleaned up, well lit, new street furniture, new market end of the…