collective imagination
Why GeoPoetry? Why now?
When the data failed, the geologists turned to poetry. Poetry is all encompassing, and we need new compasses to navigate ways out of the human-centric World conspiring around us.
Understory
Understory is a shared exploration asking: how might nurturing connection and attachment help communities act, create, and shape the futures they want? This work is unfolding across four places: Dudley borough (West Midlands), Amber Valley (Derbyshire), Watchet (Somerset) and Minehead (Somerset). This collection features stories from our work supported by investment in network weaving through Understory.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
‘Relational Beings’ counter mapping: collective notes and reflections
Photos and notes from a gathering of the Bioregional Learning Network as we experimented with Understory digital mapping alongside Relational Beings practice as a new layer of our counter-mapping practice.
Author: Jo Orchard-Webb
Counter-mapping — a radically relational practice in place
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: 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?