CoLab Dudley | Lab Notes

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…

A look at CoLab Dudley activity over 10 years, engaging hundreds of local people in experimention around cultural democracy.

Five stories of local creatives breathing life into Dudley Creates — a 100 year cultural strategy in ACTION

This is a story of the learning soil that forms part of the foundation of Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice

A Lab Note on the progress of an idea to a funded demonstrator over 14 months.

Imagine curious thinkers / researchers / archivists / doers / creatives coming together monthly to connect with their place…

Using regenerative principles to shape CoLab Dudley; sharing learning with our fellow travellers.

In response to a flurry of interest in Urban Rooms and understandable thoughts about our similarity to them, we draw out key distinctions.

Reflecting on a year of Stories of Place and the emergence of social imagination practice

On Dudley High Street, we invite people to come together to reveal hidden stories and experiment with ideas for flourishing futures…

Because HOW we do not just WHAT we do matters

We warmly invite you to a virtual version of our exhibition in our lab space on Dudley High Street in June 2022.

Note 5 of 5 in a mini series of findings from a shared enquiry: Navigating Challenges

Note 4 of 5 in a mini-series of findings from a shared enquiry: Learning and doing ripples