Author: Holly Doron
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 High Street
CoLab Dudley started putting down roots on Dudley High Street in the autumn of 2016, after 2 years of popping up in community spaces across Dudley borough. In early 2020 we transformed an empty retail unit on the High Street into a dedicated experimentation and exhibition space. We now have a decade of observations, sensing, experiments, imaginings and research focused on Dudley High Street. These are drawn together here.
Author: Holly Doron
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: 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
Stories of Place as Regenerative Design Practice
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
Co-creation of Stories of Place
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: Holly Doron
Prototyping Street Detectorism
In summer 2021 a group of Time Rebels came together on Dudley High Street to prototype street detectorism. Holly shares learning from this live testing and what the next iterations will be.
Author: Holly Doron
Extinction Rebellion Architecture is coming to Dudley High Street!
Extracts from a brief and a reading list given to Birmingham City University Masters of Architecture students in advance of a learning collaboration with CoLab Dudley from September 2021 to April 2022.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #3.4 — New Green Network
Student Time Rebels Jamie, Maddison and Amy returned from a High Street of the future with memories of a new green network and a transformed, pedestrianised, and sustainable High Street, and stepping stones for moving towards it.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #3.3— Culture, Inclusivity and Colour
Student Time Rebels Kirren, Siddesh, Safiah and Yuanshun returned from a Dudley High Street of the future with memories of an inclusive street rich with culture and colour and showcased this future through social media posts.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #3.2— Industry 4.0
Student Time Rebels Weitong, Emma. Olivia and Luciana rolled the dice on their Dudleypoly board and returned from a Dudley High Street of the future with memories of circular economy pavilions on the High Street.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #3.1 — ‘My’ Street 2030
Student Time Rebels Kiera, Kirstina, Rebecca and Sita return from a Dudley High Street of the future with memories of food, fulfilment and wellbeing, and generate a design illustrating stepping stones to a reimagined High Street.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #3.0 Memories from a regenerative future
15 student Time Rebels make preparations for travelling to a regenerative future on Dudley High Street, to gather memories from the future.