Author: Holly Doron
Stories of Place 2024 Composting #1 | Gift gathering
A collection of gifts: an abundance of co-created Stories of Place resources, experiments and explorations through the seasons in 2024.
Story
Author: Holly Doron
Dudley Time Portal | Dreaming of a 100 year archive
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
Visual composting
At the end of their second year of their practice based PhD with CoLab Dudley and Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Holly shares experimentation with visual ways of sense-making through their learning journey, Stories of Place, and conversations.
Author: Lorna Prescott
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.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Dudley Time Rebel Mission 2023
Five stories of local creatives breathing life into Dudley Creates — a 100 year cultural strategy in ACTION
Author: Kerry O'Coy
Photo Journal: Rehearsing the Futures We Want
Date of gathering: Thursday 8th December 2022, 12-3pm A throwback to our very FIRST Cultural Collaborators Gathering and the launch of the Dudley Creates network. Photos from a gathering held on 8 December 2022 in the Imaginarium at CoLab Dudley on Dudley High Street. This was an invitation from
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
An emergent story of regenerative learning infrastructure
This is a story of the learning soil that forms part of the foundation of Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
Author: Lorna Prescott
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.
Author: Holly Doron
Stories of Place meets Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice
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: Lorna Prescott
Infrastructures of care
Using regenerative principles to shape CoLab Dudley; sharing learning with our fellow travellers.
Two Days in Autumn
Nature Inspired Micro Commission Creatives: Helen, Jackie + Jo Venue: Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge Three artists came together in early November to host a weekend of workshops with attendees using foraged items to make beautiful autumnal colour dyes and botanical inks which were then use to experiment with. The workshops offered
Winter Cultural Collaborators Gathering
On the 7th December we held our final Cultural Collaborators Gathering of 2023. It was an opportunity for the Time Rebels of Dudley to share an update of the wonderful projects they have been co-creating with communities across the borough. In total 30 creatives have been commissioned this year