Lorna Prescott
@lornaprescott.bsky.social
designing • learning • creating • growing • governance stewarding • network weaving • CoLab Dudley instigator & Time Rebel • supporting regenerative shifts in Dudley CVS • born at 332ppm
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Got a bit of writing done. It’s been heartening remembering two days in Dudley this spring with @bridgetmck.bsky.social @raechelkelly.bsky.social and our local collaborators, going about evaluation in a deeply relational and generative way.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/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.
medium.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Got a bit of writing done. It’s been heartening remembering two days in Dudley this spring with @bridgetmck.bsky.social @raechelkelly.bsky.social and our local collaborators, going about evaluation in a deeply relational and generative way.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/colab-dudley...
I’m not sure if anyone following me here is local to Dudley, but if so you’d be warmly welcomed at our Winter Gathering if you’d like to pop along 😊
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-gat...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-gat...
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’m not sure if anyone following me here is local to Dudley, but if so you’d be warmly welcomed at our Winter Gathering if you’d like to pop along 😊
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-gat...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-gat...
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A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beyond delighted that page 1 of Brene Brown’s new book takes us straight into a pickleball anecdote 😁
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Beyond delighted that page 1 of Brene Brown’s new book takes us straight into a pickleball anecdote 😁
“Flourishing and resilience are closely connected. Both voice a call for adaptation to the ebb and flow of events. They encourage us to be creative in generating resources. They urge us to shift perspectives, especially from victimisation to empowerment, and from power to humility.” - Yuria Celidwen
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“Flourishing and resilience are closely connected. Both voice a call for adaptation to the ebb and flow of events. They encourage us to be creative in generating resources. They urge us to shift perspectives, especially from victimisation to empowerment, and from power to humility.” - Yuria Celidwen
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Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.
Community Health Impact Assessment by @joshartus.bsky.social et al.
🔍 #CityKnowHows
🔍A case study in developing a Health Impact Assessment from the eyes of a Community
www.cityknow-how.com/how-migratio...
#Cities4Health #HealthyCities #Community #HealthImpactAssessment
🔍 #CityKnowHows
🔍A case study in developing a Health Impact Assessment from the eyes of a Community
www.cityknow-how.com/how-migratio...
#Cities4Health #HealthyCities #Community #HealthImpactAssessment
How migration and climate crisis impact the health of migrant populations in Santiago, Chile – City Know-how
www.cityknow-how.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.
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Saxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems.
Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
September 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Dipping into this gorgeous collection of new writing by people working on the land in the UK. It’s absolutely fascinating, and important. We all eat, so we all need to understand these challenges (IMO) and can be inspired by these stories of resistance, determination and regenerative approaches.
September 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dipping into this gorgeous collection of new writing by people working on the land in the UK. It’s absolutely fascinating, and important. We all eat, so we all need to understand these challenges (IMO) and can be inspired by these stories of resistance, determination and regenerative approaches.
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Winter is coming to Gaza.
Over 1 million tarpaulins and 86,000 tents are ready, yet Israel has allowed in only 1,175. 1.4 million people urgently need shelter, but aid is blocked.
AID MUST BE ALLOWED IN.
This is a failure of humanity and a violation of international law.
Over 1 million tarpaulins and 86,000 tents are ready, yet Israel has allowed in only 1,175. 1.4 million people urgently need shelter, but aid is blocked.
AID MUST BE ALLOWED IN.
This is a failure of humanity and a violation of international law.
September 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Winter is coming to Gaza.
Over 1 million tarpaulins and 86,000 tents are ready, yet Israel has allowed in only 1,175. 1.4 million people urgently need shelter, but aid is blocked.
AID MUST BE ALLOWED IN.
This is a failure of humanity and a violation of international law.
Over 1 million tarpaulins and 86,000 tents are ready, yet Israel has allowed in only 1,175. 1.4 million people urgently need shelter, but aid is blocked.
AID MUST BE ALLOWED IN.
This is a failure of humanity and a violation of international law.
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Outgrowing Modernity
Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion
by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira 💚
Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion
by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira 💚
September 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Outgrowing Modernity
Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion
by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira 💚
Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion
by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira 💚
During our years of learning together we have come to understand that collective learning, if done with care, is a regenerative and liberatory practice. It goes well beyond exchange or growth of skills and knowledge, it generates ripples for the cultural waters we swim in.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/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…
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August 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
During our years of learning together we have come to understand that collective learning, if done with care, is a regenerative and liberatory practice. It goes well beyond exchange or growth of skills and knowledge, it generates ripples for the cultural waters we swim in.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/colab-dudley...
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For #WorldHumanitarianDay, we're focusing on the challenges faced when delivering aid in the world’s most volatile environments.
Hear from ShelterBox's Head of Security, as he discusses the risks and realities that define #humanitarian work today ⬇️
#WHD
Hear from ShelterBox's Head of Security, as he discusses the risks and realities that define #humanitarian work today ⬇️
#WHD
Beyond the frontlines: security and solidarity in humanitarian work - ShelterBox
Discover how humanitarian workers face evolving security threats in crisis zones. On World Humanitarian Day, ShelterBox’
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August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
For #WorldHumanitarianDay, we're focusing on the challenges faced when delivering aid in the world’s most volatile environments.
Hear from ShelterBox's Head of Security, as he discusses the risks and realities that define #humanitarian work today ⬇️
#WHD
Hear from ShelterBox's Head of Security, as he discusses the risks and realities that define #humanitarian work today ⬇️
#WHD
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This #WorldHumanitarianDay, we remember and honour the lives of Haitham, Ahmad, and Batoul - our colleagues at Palestinian Agricultural Development Association who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
https://bit.ly/3HuNojd
https://bit.ly/3HuNojd
August 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This #WorldHumanitarianDay, we remember and honour the lives of Haitham, Ahmad, and Batoul - our colleagues at Palestinian Agricultural Development Association who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
https://bit.ly/3HuNojd
https://bit.ly/3HuNojd
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Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt
August 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.
www.openculture.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
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so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI
here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI
here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
Just watched this beautiful film and had a good old cry about all the “disappeared” people around the world.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2667...
www.imdb.com/title/tt2667...
The Penguin Lessons (2024) ⭐ 7.1 | Drama
1h 51m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just watched this beautiful film and had a good old cry about all the “disappeared” people around the world.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2667...
www.imdb.com/title/tt2667...
Want to dive deep into the explorations and thinking of an amazing PhD researcher and social lab team member? Start with this intro to a series of posts reflecting on practice, oriented towards co-creating conditions for regenerative cultures and life-centric futures.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/colab-dudley...
Stories of Place 2024–2025 Composting #3 | Co-creators as Earthworms
What if we were more like Earthworms in how we learn and do?
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July 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Want to dive deep into the explorations and thinking of an amazing PhD researcher and social lab team member? Start with this intro to a series of posts reflecting on practice, oriented towards co-creating conditions for regenerative cultures and life-centric futures.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/colab-dudley...
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What happens when the Western neoliberal economic mindset meets indigenous cosmology - I am hugely looking forward to this conversation. Join us in person in London (seats going fast) or online everywhere (seats for all) Weds 9th July. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancestral-...
Ancestral Futures: Water, Wealth and Wisdom in a World on Fire
Join three of the most respected Indigenous leaders from Brazil and the Amazon in conversation with two of the UK’s most creative thinkers.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What happens when the Western neoliberal economic mindset meets indigenous cosmology - I am hugely looking forward to this conversation. Join us in person in London (seats going fast) or online everywhere (seats for all) Weds 9th July. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancestral-...
It’s Stories of Place at CoLab Dudley tonight. I’m exploring Dudley High Street with a cow as my (imaginary) companion, looking for a micro-space to name 🐄😊
June 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s Stories of Place at CoLab Dudley tonight. I’m exploring Dudley High Street with a cow as my (imaginary) companion, looking for a micro-space to name 🐄😊
Next month for me is full of adventures by train in Europe. I’m looking for book recommendations to add to my Kobo reader library.
I just made a start with these.
What would you recommend?
I just made a start with these.
What would you recommend?
May 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Next month for me is full of adventures by train in Europe. I’m looking for book recommendations to add to my Kobo reader library.
I just made a start with these.
What would you recommend?
I just made a start with these.
What would you recommend?
This question makes me feel incredibly sad.
Sad that a web of life has been reduced through an anthropocentric lens to an idea of a single, detached entity; ‘a tree’.
Sad that parts of the web of life which are visible at human scale are considered as value or ‘assets’ to one other species; humans.
Sad that a web of life has been reduced through an anthropocentric lens to an idea of a single, detached entity; ‘a tree’.
Sad that parts of the web of life which are visible at human scale are considered as value or ‘assets’ to one other species; humans.
What is the value of a tree?
@ojgarling.bsky.social reflects on the conviction of 2 men for the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, exploring how the Bennett Institute's framework for measuring social & cultural infrastructure can help explain its value.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/first-k...
@ojgarling.bsky.social reflects on the conviction of 2 men for the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, exploring how the Bennett Institute's framework for measuring social & cultural infrastructure can help explain its value.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/first-k...
May 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This question makes me feel incredibly sad.
Sad that a web of life has been reduced through an anthropocentric lens to an idea of a single, detached entity; ‘a tree’.
Sad that parts of the web of life which are visible at human scale are considered as value or ‘assets’ to one other species; humans.
Sad that a web of life has been reduced through an anthropocentric lens to an idea of a single, detached entity; ‘a tree’.
Sad that parts of the web of life which are visible at human scale are considered as value or ‘assets’ to one other species; humans.