Our work is shaped through relationships with others. We collaborate with organisations, collectives, and fellow travellers (locally and from further afield) who bring different practices, perspectives, and ways of knowing. These are not just partnerships, but ongoing relationships of learning, experimentation, and shared enquiry. This collection of stories features moments of learning exchange and tales of relationships rooted in learning through doing.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Author: Holly Doron
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.