CoLab Podcast
The CoLab Podcast was funded through the Emergent Festival and is hosted on the Learn website.
In these Podcast interviews, we interview people from around the world who are involved in interesting and inspiring grassroots permaculture projects.
Aims of the project
The aim is to give a platform for grassroots permaculture projects to speak about what they are doing and to gain exposure and promotion.
We also aim to create a pool of educational resources that can be accessed by anybody. This will provide value and will help to attract people to the CoLab.
Team
Charlie Wilson, Daniel Attwell
Reporting Officer: Daniel Atwell
Area
Training and eLearning, Emergent festival, Next Steps project
Objectives 2023
We would prepare by using the CoLab slack channel and CoLab newsletter to find 6 willing participants who want to be interviewed about their grassroots permaculture projects. This could take 1 month.
Before the interviews, we would glean some basic information about the participant’s projects so that we can then prepare questions.
The interviews themselves would be 1 hour long at a maximum. We would aim to do one interview a week, over the course of 6 weeks. We would pay the participants a fee for the interviews as an incentive.
After the interviews, there may need to be some minor editing. We would need to do a short write-up and then upload the materials to the Learn website, perhaps adding some graphics and making it look presentable.
We would then seek to promote the podcasts using the CoLab Slack channel, CoLab LinkedIn, and CoLab newsletter.
OUTCOMEs 2023
We received extra funding and finally had the capacity to record 7 podcast interviews.
All of the interviews have been completed, listened back to, and edited. We have created a “home” page for the CoLab podcasts and then created individual web pages for each interview. We have added a write-up and some simple graphics.
One episode per month was released, as this allowed for promotion using the CoLab newsletter, slack channel, and LinkedIn channel. All podcast episodes are now up and available.
The biggest problem during the project was arranging interviews with people who didn’t show up. This happened a number of times and was a considerable waste of time for the team.
The best part of the project was learning about all of the wonderful grassroots projects and hearing inspiring stories from people making an actionable difference.
Objectives 2024
Preparation: Using the CoLab slack channel and CoLab newsletter to find 6 more and new willing participants who want to be interviewed about their grassroots permaculture projects. This could take 1 month.
Before interviews: get some basic information about the participant’s projects so that we can then prepare questions.
The interviews: 1 hour long maximum. Aim to deliver one interview a week, over the course of 6 weeks. We would pay the participants a fee for the interviews as an incentive.
After interviews: possibly minor editing. Prepare short write-up and then upload the materials to the Learn website, perhaps adding some graphics and making it look presentable.
We would then seek to promote the podcasts using the CoLab Slack channel, CoLab LinkedIn, and CoLab newsletter.
outcomes 2024
The CoLab Podcast, which has now been running for two years in a row has yet again been a very successful project with all our aims and objectives having been met.
We will soon roll out, in monthly installments, each of the interviews with the 6 grassroots permaculture projects and these will be found through the Permaculture CoLab Newsletter and on the Learn website: