Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Principles-Focused Evaluation is at the HEART of how we make sense of change
Because HOW we do not just WHAT we do matters
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Lab notes and stories shared by Jo Orchard-Webb
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
An introduction to CoLab Dudley’s approach to Imagination Infrastructuring
“There is a big need for new forms of imaginative practice.” Hilary Cottam: Radical Way, 2021
detectorism
Sensing place: shared sensemaking — Insights from Do Fest 2021 Time Rebel High Street experiments
“What questions does this raise about different forms of knowledge? … [Imagination] Infrastructure that seeks liberatory ends must bring…
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Time Rebels in practice
Notes from a shared enquiry by CoLab Dudley Time Rebels into what they are sensing and testing out in terms of what it means to be a…
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.
Introducing Street Detectorism
CoLab Dudley team members Holly and Jo pool together different methods, tools and experiences to inform thinking about what street detectorism could be - as an invitation to use all our senses to discover how people move, act, interact, socialise, and respond to Dudley High Street.
Designing pacts of collaboration that catalyse imagination into action
A dive into the conditions for pacts of collaboration that catalyse imagination into action.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #2 Gifts for Dudley High Street
Students from the School of Architecture and Design at Birmingham City University get to know Dudley High Street and share gifts they created in response, as we worked remotely due to pandemic lockdowns.
Co.LAB #1 Project Launch
An introduction to a collaboration initiated in 2021 with 15 students from the School of Architecture & Design at Birmingham City University, imagining resilient, regenerative futures for Dudley High Street together.
Tools for navigating uncertainty: exploring the Imagination Sundial & how it weaves into our…
Lab notes on navigation tools shared by Jo and Holly.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Many Hands, Many Ideas, Many Experiments - learning note from Do Fest 2019
At CoLab Dudley we do and learn together.
Re-imagining Dudley High Street
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…