It was a bright spring afternoon last April, and here I was with Simoon Fransen from the Netherlands and Chelsea Lei from the USA in a Berlin graveyard, creating a 3D sculpture of the u.lab system out of twigs, pine cones and other stuff foraged from nearby. We were nearing the end of the Presencing Institute’s […]
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u.lab opens this Thursday and hubs can be a powerful space for exploring and practising what we learn during the course. They rely on volunteers to host the space and each do so in their own unique way. There are hubs brewing across Scotland (and the world) in places like Aberdeen, Alloa, Angus, Coltness, Dundee, […]
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Last year, we invited ulabscot participants to host their own taster or intro session to u.lab to help people decide if they would like to register for it in Sept. This resulted in over 20 tasters happening across Scotland, hosted by participants themselves. This year, we would like to issue the same invitation to potential hub hosts […]
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The NHS Lanarkshire Hub is made up of members with a variety of roles within the NHS, along with a member from the Citizens Advice Bureau, all based in the Lanarkshire area. The group was formed following the holding of taster sessions within NHS Health and Improvement which were hosted by a hub formed during […]
Read moreIn the second of our “hub hosting” series, Carol Chamberlain tells us of her experience and reflections of hosting a cross-sector hub in Lanarkshire: How we started it Following the three national u.lab events that took place in summer 2015 (click here for videos of the preparatory events), and the invitation that was out there […]
Read moreIn the last post, we told you about the new U.Lab hub host guide and that a hub can be almost shape, size and configuration. It should be shaped around the needs of the participants. To give you a flavour of how some folks have done it, we asked a number of hub hosts from last […]
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