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CoLab Dudley

@colab-dudley

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active: 2022-09-01 → 2026-02-18

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

An emergent story of regenerative learning infrastructure

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

Mar 12, 2024 · 26 min read · 30 claps #learning-infrastructure #regenerative-practice #social-labs

An emergent story of regenerative learning infrastructure

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

Lorna’s Week Notes: Cycles of lab life

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

Feb 23, 2025 · 12 min read · 21 claps #social-labs #understory #urban-rooms

HO Holly Doron · CoLab Dudley

What helps, or could help, us to care across time?

Part 4— Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

Jun 27, 2025 · 11 min read · 20 claps #long-term-thinking #care #regenerative

What helps, or could help, us to care across time?

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

Spot the difference: Urban Rooms and CoLab Dudley

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

Nov 27, 2023 · 9 min read · 15 claps #urban-rooms #social-labs #regenerative

Spot the difference: Urban Rooms and CoLab Dudley

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Principles-Focused Evaluation is at the HEART of how we make sense of change

Because HOW we do not just WHAT we do matters

Sep 21, 2022 · 15 min read · 14 claps #principles #developmental-evaluation #social-labs

Principles-Focused Evaluation is at the HEART of how we make sense of change

LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

The Kith & Kin Living Lab: a field building approach to evaluation

Why and how we co-created a Kith & Kin Living Lab to explore Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice work.

Oct 29, 2025 · 19 min read · 13 claps #evaluation #climate-justice #dudley

The Kith & Kin Living Lab: a field building approach to evaluation

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

Spring Gathering 2025: Fertile Edges

Fertile edges invited explorations of the interplay of creativity in Dudley.

Aug 04, 2025 · 18 min read · 11 claps #dudley #urban-rooms #cultural-democracy

HO Holly Doron · CoLab Dudley

What helps, or could help, us to do all of this together on a journey from ‘me’ to ‘we’?

Part 5— Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

Jun 27, 2025 · 14 min read · 11 claps #collective #cocreation #dudley

What helps, or could help, us to do all of this together on a journey from ‘me’ to ‘we’?

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

Participatory Culture and Cultural Democracy in Dudley

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

Jun 23, 2024 · 14 min read · 7 claps #cultural-democracy #participatory-cultures #social-labs

Participatory Culture and Cultural Democracy in Dudley

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

‘Relational Beings’ counter mapping: collective notes and reflections

Notes from a gathering of the Bioregional Learning Network as we experimented with Understory mapping technology alongside Relational…

Feb 18, 2026 · 9 min read · 5 claps #counter-mapping #colab-dudley #social-technology

‘Relational Beings’ counter mapping: collective notes and reflections

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

Accountability for learning and adaptation: data we generate, gather and bring attention to

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

Feb 19, 2025 · 16 min read · 5 claps #data #evaluation #impact

Accountability for learning and adaptation: data we generate, gather and bring attention to

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Commoning knowledge, knowledge weaving and relational ethics

Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice

Aug 19, 2025 · 7 min read · 3 claps #collective-learning #colab-dudley #commoning

Commoning knowledge, knowledge weaving and relational ethics

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Counter-mapping — a radically relational practice in place

As we begin to explore the many layers and fuzzy edges of our bioregion we are once again falling in love with, and testing out, the power…

Feb 04, 2026 · 20 min read · 2 claps

Counter-mapping — a radically relational practice in place

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

Expressing our Emergent Strategy: Restorying our Relationships with Land

An account of CoLab Dudley’s first ever team retreat, which took place over two days in May, and notes from a subsequent network session.

Nov 17, 2025 · 23 min read · 1 claps #emergent-strategy #relationships-with-land #bioregioning

Expressing our Emergent Strategy: Restorying our Relationships with Land

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HO Holly Doron · CoLab Dudley

Virtual exhibition — What is more possible now?

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

Sep 01, 2022 · 1 min read · 1 claps #dudley #miro #virtual-exhibition

Virtual exhibition — What is more possible now?

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

detectorism: a co-evolving story

Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice

Aug 18, 2025 · 6 min read · 1 claps #detectorism #colab-dudley #collective-learning

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Decolonising our learning practices and the role of semi-permeable boundary holding

Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice

Aug 19, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #colab-dudley #collective-learning

Decolonising our learning practices and the role of semi-permeable boundary holding

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

unschool qualities — noticings sparked by counter-mapping our journey in regenerative learning…

Paying attention to processes and practices of unschooling — partner noticings from two years of rehearsal as Dudley People’s School for…

Feb 04, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #unschooling #colab-dudley #climate-justice

unschool qualities — noticings sparked by counter-mapping our journey in regenerative learning…

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Diversifying data gathering to cultivate inhabitancy

Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice

Aug 19, 2025 · 16 min read · 0 claps #collective-learning #colab-dudley

Diversifying data gathering to cultivate inhabitancy

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LO Lorna Prescott · CoLab Dudley

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?

Nov 18, 2025 · 10 min read · 0 claps #bioregioning #dudley #collective-learning

Initiating a Bioregional Learning Network in Dudley

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HO Holly Doron · CoLab Dudley

What helps, or could help, us to change our understanding of the world, and how we learn and do?

Part 3— Burrowing deeper into Stories of Place composting

Jun 27, 2025 · 14 min read · 0 claps #learning #research #cocreation

What helps, or could help, us to change our understanding of the world, and how we learn and do?

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Collective learning is a liberatory practice that ripples through the cultural waters we swim in

A mini-series of lab notes from CoLab Dudley on nurturing a collective learning practice, and why we see this as integral to alternative…

Aug 18, 2025 · 10 min read · 0 claps #collective-learning #colab-dudley #detectorism

Collective learning is a liberatory practice that ripples through the cultural waters we swim in

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JO Jo Orchard-Webb · CoLab Dudley

Values led developmental evaluation

Part of a mini-series about our co-evolving collective learning practice

Aug 18, 2025 · 7 min read · 0 claps #developmental-evaluation #collective-learning #colab-dudley