Author: Lorna Prescott
Initiating a Bioregional Learning Network in Dudley
What if communities in Dudley borough lived in ways which were deeply attuned to ecological, cultural and historical realities of place?
Author: Lorna Prescott
Lab notes and stories shared by Lorna Prescott
Author: Lorna Prescott
Expressing our Emergent Strategy: Restorying our Relationships with Land
An account of CoLab Dudley’s first ever team retreat, which took place over two days in May, and notes from a subsequent network session.
Author: Lorna Prescott
The Kith & Kin Living Lab: a field building approach to evaluation
Why and how we co-created a Kith & Kin Living Lab to explore Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice work.
Participatory Culture and Cultural Democracy in Dudley
A look at CoLab Dudley activity over 10 years, engaging hundreds of local people in experimention around cultural democracy.
Co-creating Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
A Lab Note on the progress of an idea to a funded demonstrator over 14 months.
Infrastructures of care
Using regenerative principles to shape CoLab Dudley; sharing learning with our fellow travellers.
Why Dudley High Street needs Time Rebels
Three stories of our time. Borrowing the perspective of future generations. Orienting ourselves.
Indigenous Wisdom, Deep Time, Dreaming and Imagination
Offerings taken up in the lockdown of Spring 2020 which have shaped an approach to our work over four seasons in 2021.
Revisiting our GUIDEing Principles
Another step in our journey of using values-based principles shaped by our lab team to underpin our evaluation approach.
Author: Lorna Prescott
Principles-driven work | Example #3: Radical Help
The principles for radical help feel like a cosy well worn pair of slippers to us! Have a look and see what you think of them.
Design principles for an inclusive participatory ecosystem
A look at the evolving design principles used by the Partcipatory City team, which we draw on in our work.
Developing holistic goals
The CoLab Dudley team are taking some time to consider: what next? Here we share our first step in framing goals for our design.