Author: Holly Doron
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.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Lab notes on navigation tools shared by Jo and Holly.
Author: Lorna Prescott
Three stories of our time. Borrowing the perspective of future generations. Orienting ourselves.
Author: Lorna Prescott
Offerings taken up in the lockdown of Spring 2020 which have shaped an approach to our work over four seasons in 2021.
Author: Lorna Prescott
Another step in our journey of using values-based principles shaped by our lab team to underpin our evaluation approach.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
At CoLab Dudley we do and learn together.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
We are a social lab that lives on Dudley High Street. Not the shiny, cleaned up, well lit, new street furniture, new market end of the…
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.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Introducing eight principles that have emerged from our practice, research and reflections as lab team and a community of doers.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
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.