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.
Time Rebels of Dudley
In autumn 2020 we invited local creatives and doers to gather as a collective of Time Rebels. Together we undertook four year-long Time Rebel missions, experimenting with ways to unlock long term thinking in our communities, developing a 100 Year Cultural Strategy in Action (Dudley Creates) and animating that strategy in action. This collection features contributions from Time Rebels and stories from this period of our work.
Stories of Place as compost and social imagination practice
Lab team member Holly reflects on a year of Stories of Place and the emergence of social imagination practice.
Co-creation of Stories of Place
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.
Prototyping Street Detectorism
In summer 2021 a group of Time Rebels came together on Dudley High Street to prototype street detectorism. Holly shares learning from this live testing and what the next iterations will be.
Extinction Rebellion Architecture is coming to Dudley High Street!
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
Co.LAB #3.4 — New Green Network
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
Co.LAB #3.3— Culture, Inclusivity and Colour
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
Co.LAB #3.2— Industry 4.0
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
Co.LAB #3.1 — ‘My’ Street 2030
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.
Author: Holly Doron
Co.LAB #3.0 Memories from a regenerative future
15 student Time Rebels make preparations for travelling to a regenerative future on Dudley High Street, to gather memories from the future.