A network approach is different from more familiar ways of working. It is not about isolated projects, fixed roles and central control. It is about relationships and collaborations that emerge over time, which need catalysing, tending and supporting - by network weavers. This is a collection of reflections on being network guardians and networks weavers as CoLab Dudley has evolved.
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: 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 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
A collection of gifts: an abundance of co-created Stories of Place resources, experiments and explorations through the seasons in 2024.
Author: Holly Doron
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
Over four sessions, Stories of Place co-creators reconnected with previous ideas to evolve new ones, and harvested seeds of ideas to store over winter - ready for Stories of Place to re-emerge as part of the Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice in 2024.
Author: Holly Doron
Lab team member Holly reflects on a year of Stories of Place and the emergence of social imagination practice.
Author: Holly Doron
What if we connected with stories of place from past, present and future to collectively dream of regenerative futures, and make these futures more tangible in the present? Holly shares ways that this question is being lived through Stories of Place.
Author: Holly Doron
Situating street detectorism in deep time led to the development of a collective archive and a rhythm of people gathering to explore and generate Stories of Place.