For CoLab Dudley evaluation is not something separate from the work. It is part of how we learn. Our approach to evaluation is rooted in principles. This way of working has been shaped by Principles Focused Evaluation (PFE), developed by Michael Quinn Patton, and by our own ongoing practice, learning, and reflection. This collection of Lab Notes record our journey with learning and evaluation, which is ever-evolving.
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: Jo Orchard-Webb
Paying attention to processes and practices of unschooling. Partner noticings from two years of rehearsal as Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on decolonising our learning practices and the role of semi-permeable boundary holding
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
An exploration of four practical strategies we use in our collective learning practice to diversify data gathering to cultivate inhabitancy. Inhabitancy and kithship; Diversifying data gathering and multi-species learning; Accountability to future generations; and Language and collective learning.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
We urgently need new ways of learning together, and ways of diversifying the data we gather and how we relate to it. We should be commoning knowledge for intergenerational and interspecies justice, not extracting, hoarding, and enclosing it.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on values led developmental evaluation - a practice that supports diversifying evidence and value in our collective learning.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice, focusing on “detectorism” as the foundation to our collective learning and why we learn like this.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
The story of deep shifts invited through our collective learning that cultivate conditions for redistribution of power, rehearsing regenerative relationships with place, and expanding our circles of accountability.
Author: Holly Doron
Creative documentation and stories from a co-created gathering rehearsing learning processes that bring us closer to flourishing futures, which took place in Dudley Borough over 3 days in April 2025.
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 caring for the future. 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 how we understand the world, and how we learn and act. Generated through collective sensing and reflections of Stories of Place co-creators.