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What if… we connected with the past, present and future of Dudley Borough to collectively imagine futures where life can flourish, and find small ways we can bring those futures closer to the present?

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Scroll across the tabs with yellow icons below to delve into all areas of this space.

Landing

This is a co-creator space to access everything we need to make Stories of Place happen together. If you’re not yet a co-creator and would like to be, this website page will tell you more. If you’re just visiting, you are welcome to learn from our messy, working out loud - we would love to hear if anything emerges for you from this, just email the CoLab Dudley team.

Commons = “the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness and flowing water—all are parts of the commons. So are language and knowledge, sidewalks and public squares, the stories of childhood and the processes of democracy. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature, others the product of human endeavor. Some are new, such as the Internet; others are as ancient as soil and calligraphy.” Jonathan Rowe (2013) Our Common Wealth, p14.

“The commons is not just about shared resources, however. It’s also about the social practices and values that manage them. A resource is a noun, but to common—to put the resource into the commons—is a verb.” Paul Stacey and Sarah Hinchliff Pearson (2017) Made with Creative Commons, p3.

Think of this as a living weave (inspired by Rebekah’s words!). Stories of Place co-creators are welcome to add to this space. If you spot anything that could be more easily worded or anything you would like to change, you can leave comments for the Notion stewards to update.

Dudley Time Portal

This is where you can dip into our archive for inspiration and to share your own gifts of ideas, observations, imaginings, knowledge.

https://dudleytimeportal.uk/

Co-creators

This is where you can meet your fellow co-creators and change your own profile. Please note that any information shared here is publicly visible.

Stories of Place Co-creators

Collective care

This is where we can remind ourselves and evolve our agreement to care for each other and update our consent.

Below are principles that guide our actions and collective care. These emerged out of our previous collective care agreement and Holly’s research into regenerative / life-centric ways of being. These will continue to evolve as we use them, so please leave comments with any suggested changes:

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We realign with Nature and Place

• We seek reciprocal connections with more-than-human life.
• We pay attention to our places and learn with their patterns.
• We adapt how we act in ways that support life to thrive. </aside>

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We imagine and act collectively

• We are all responsible for nurturing welcome, supportive, courageous and equitable spaces for each other, listening and speaking with curiosity, intention and care.
• We nurture conditions for imagination and co-create through caring invitations and creative experiences. Everyone is a teacher, everyone is a learner. Anyone can initiate, host or lead Stories of Place activities.
• We actively share and weave our knowledges, learning, resources, and practices ****through other communities and activities we are part of, honouring authorship. </aside>

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We ritualise (un)learning

• We question our ways of knowing and deepen our consciousness of the Earth Crisis.
• We embrace and celebrate multiple ways of being, learning and doing.
• We continually learn through doing. </aside>

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We care across time

• We seek empathy and justice for all life, now and into the future.
• We act now for long-term movement toward more just futures.
• We care for each other and ourselves, checking in with consent, and setting and honouring boundaries. </aside>

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With thanks to:

• Dudley Bioregional Learning Network
• adrienne maree brown for the Emergent Strategy principle **move at the speed of trust
• Bristol Commons for thinking around compassionate and responsible participation
• Brene Brown for BRAVING, the anatomy of trust.
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Our consent

Click on the triangles below to check in with what we each consent to.

📸 Photos of me

🎤 Audio recordings

🎨 Photos of my creations

💬 Notes of things I say

Gathering co-creation

This is where you can find out dates of future gatherings and contribute to how they are shaped.

Gathering co-creation

Dudley’s micro-seasons can help us shape our gatherings - these have emerged from us paying attention to our places. You can access and add to them in the Miro board below.

Dudley’s micro-seasons

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVGE9x5nI=/?share_link_id=120505229685

Our roles

There are many ways we can each show up in Stories of Place. We don’t have to be present all the time - we can drop in and out when we have space and energy. This is where you can look up and update the different roles we share to make Stories of Place happen.

Our roles

Our library

This is where you can borrow and add tools and templates to help shape our gatherings: more-than-human kin cards, question prompts, idea seeds, activity templates, learning composting, and useful links. This is the digital version of the physical resources we hold within our places.

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From Holly: I’m still making my slow way to gathering everything here : )

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Our library

Our places

This is where you can browse and add the places we care about and where we can host our gatherings - Stories of Place on tour!

Our places

Our story so far

Our past gatherings

Fringe activities

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