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.
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
A deep dive into learning patterns, design questions, intentions and wisdom emerging around nature connection and connection with place. 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
Holly is researching how we might invite regenerative cultures. A year ago Holly shared regenerative principles emerging from their research. Here they share why and how these principles emerged and are still evolving.
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.
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.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
At CoLab Dudley we do and learn together.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
In this lab note we share the next steps in our journey of putting our principles to work in guiding us in the practical day to day stuff of being a social lab on Dudley High Street.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
In this learning note we introduce an alternative approach to scaling and data that we have found really useful in our work; thinking in terms of patterns of relationships.
Introducing eight principles that have emerged from our practice, research and reflections as lab team and a community of doers.
Steps we have taken in our journey of developing and testing out Principles Focused Evaluation. The depth of reflections and thinking during this development stage is key to the utility of the evaluation approach in improving the value of the work we do as a team.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Testing a new way of paying attention to our journey to change by exploring a new developmental evaluation approach which will help with our decision making, priority setting and our understanding of the shifting footprint and ripples of our work.