CoLab Dudley | Lab Notes

Part 5— Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

Part 4— Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

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Part 2— Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

Part 1 — Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

What if we were more like Earthworms in how we learn and do?

Warm memories of ways in which our previous team member, Nick Booth, shaped and influenced CoLab Dudley work.

Updates on the Bringing the Stour to Life project and Urban Rooms Dudley. Reflections on networks and this Week Notes practice.

We closed the first phase of an enquiry with local organisations and started a 4 year enquiry with collaborators in Somerset and…

Reflections on gathering data, measuring progress and demonstrating impact, promoted by a WMCA Inclusive Communities enquiry we are part…

Evolution of regenerative principles that invite collective learning

Our Urban Rooms programme of creative activities continued at pace, with a myriad of offerings bringing people together.

Collaborative weaving, co-working and climate stripes, flexing our futures thinking, and falling in love with the future with Rob Hopkins.

We gather and celebrate materials for the compost, sharing what has happened in Stories of Place across the seasons in 2024.

What if there was a digital archive that cared for and shared place-based knowledges to inspire cultural climate action?

Urban Rooms Dudley data gathering, creative documentation, ethics of care and consent, posters and programme. Plus Earth Talk — imagining.

Reflecting on the week I noticed that a thread has been some of the unusual ways that we consider, animate, socialise and work with data.

Reflections on developing regenerative governance. Our second Urban Rooms Enquiry session. Some promising, and some limiting conversations.

Resolve Collective bring architecture students to CoLab Dudley. One project celebrates a year of learning, another project begins.

We had a great response to our call out for creative activities in Urban Rooms and we launched the enquiry with the creatives and others.

We’ve launched an enquiry around Urban Rooms, and a winter film programme. I made great connections at a MAIA event, Organising ABUELOS.

A slice of what’s going on in CoLab Dudley, in Lorna’s brain, and around us. And an intention to share like this regularly.

Experimenting with visual ways of sense-making through my learning journey, Stories of Place, and conversations with wonderful people

Never one to shy away form a nature metaphor, when CoLab Dudley researcher Jo Orchard-Webb introduced a new reflection record canvas to…