by Aranya The following pattern is a guide to what you might cover during your design. Either follow this through as described, or use it as a basis for your own ideas. Observations Describe your site Explain the context of your design, where it is located, size of site etc. Show your base map and… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 10. Design presentation
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Permaculture Design Process – 9. Maintenance
by Aranya Introduction The ideal that we always aim towards in permaculture is the concept of ‘harvesting as maintenance’. In reality, if we utilise low-maintenance systems to create a design that requires less energy over time to maintain, while providing increasing yields, we’ve done pretty well.
Permaculture Design Process – 8. Implementation & costing
by Aranya Introduction So now you have created your map, you need to provide your client with an implementation plan. There are several factors that can affect the recommendations you make, including costs, so lets look at them one at a time.
Permaculture Design Process – 7. Design drawing
by Aranya Introduction This is the stage where we finally put all our ideas down on paper for then client. No design is ever going to be perfect, so don’t be afraid to make some decisions – you’ll always learn from them later, even if they don’t work out as well as you’d hoped.
Core Curriculum Survey Results 2013
A Process Explanation and Results Exploration, by Peter Cow (May 2014) This Survey was carried out in March 2013, at the EPT meeting in Vale da Lama, Portugal. Its aim was to identify what PDC subjects people considered important and core to a PDC, and which were less crucial. This work was inspired by a… Continue reading Core Curriculum Survey Results 2013
Permaculture Design Process – 6. Placement & integration
by Aranya Introduction Now we’ll get down to experimenting with where the different elements & systems in your design might be best placed. If you already have a fixed point of focus on the site (such as a house), then you’ll be aiming to place everything most efficiently in relation to that. Most designs you… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 6. Placement & integration
Fourth Day at Friland Meeting
As with every morning, we began with an opening circle, where we did a round of appreciation and sang a song that went like this: “Home, I’m coming home I need the land to heal my soul Coming home Coming home Over the green, green fields and far away.”
Permaculture Design Process – 5. Choosing systems & elements
by Aranya Introduction So having identified the key functions that we are going to design for, we are now going to think about the best ways to fulfil them. Ideally, we only include something (a system or element) in our design if it fulfils at least three functions. Remember the ecological principle: Multiple functions for… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 5. Choosing systems & elements
Extract from the EPT Midterm Report: specific results & challenges
This is an extract from the midterm report that all partners had to hand in to their respective NAs before june 30th 2013. The full report can be downloaded from here. Concrete results have been Escherode (Germany) August 1-7, 2012: We spread information about the Partnership to newcomers and on the newly established website: http://permateachers.eu… Continue reading Extract from the EPT Midterm Report: specific results & challenges
Permaculture’s Rebirth and Renaissance from the Potential Collapse Dance
by Steve Hart, Ecology Architecture The generational patterns of Permaculture’s evolution is becoming more and more evident through what I perceive as a collapse in standards. How do I arrive at this thinking? As Jan Fischer says: “I was a lucky one of the first generation of students and activists.” I had the privilege of… Continue reading Permaculture’s Rebirth and Renaissance from the Potential Collapse Dance
Review of the EPT journey done on first day of Denmark meeting
What have we learned or gained together so far? Supporting the Permaculture movement through quality assurance of offered courses. European togetherness. Creating a support network that is flexible to carry out the PA activities. Creating an understanding of the outcomes of the delivery outcomes. VSM dynamic between people / getting rooted in VSM _ learning… Continue reading Review of the EPT journey done on first day of Denmark meeting
Microclimates
Session length: 90 minutes Learning outcomes By the end of the session, participants will be able to: read landscapes and point out microclimates map microclimates in a house or garden describe how to modify extremes of climate know how to make the most of exisitng microclimates in design consider strategies for small and large landscapes… Continue reading Microclimates
Zone 0
Session lenght 90 min. Learning outcomes By the end of the session, participants will be able to: say factors that influence siting a house choose appropriate insulation materials choose appropriate construction materials include biotechture in house design understand the fun and potential of retrofits For details on how to run the session please dowload the… Continue reading Zone 0
Zone 4
Session length 90 min. Learning outcomes By the end of the session, participants will be able to list all the harvestable products from a forest/treesplants understand why it is important to plant back the number of trees we consume in a lifetime- and more! State characteristics of the Zone 4 in terms of structure of… Continue reading Zone 4
First Day at Friland Meeting
The sixth of the EPT meetings has started today at Friland ecovillage, in Denmark with some 35 participants from Germany, Bulgaria, Ireland, Britain, Spain, Czech Republic, Latvia, France, Slovakia, Finland, Holland, Sweden and Denmark. After the welcoming and presentations we did a group dynamic where we explored what happened in the previous meetings through an… Continue reading First Day at Friland Meeting
Permaculture Design Process – 4. Identifying functions
By Aranya Introduction This is the stage where we identify what will be the focus of the design. We take what we have learned from the client interview(s) & determine what key functions are required (there may be many, but some will be more a priority than others). When we visit somewhere new, we often… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 4. Identifying functions
Permaculture Design Process – 3. The Client Interview
By Aranya Introduction This is the part where we identify why we are redesigning the site. The following process we would ideally go through with each client (everyone involved ought to be interviewed to some degree). Sometimes, your clients will include both adults and children, though one or two may guide the process more than… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 3. The Client Interview
Permaculture Design Process – 2. Creating a base map
By Aranya Introduction If you are lucky, you will have obtained a good map from your client, on which you can base your own. Maps are made for many different reasons though, and it is unlikely that even if you have, you will be holding the perfect map for you in your hand just yet.… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 2. Creating a base map
EUPC in Bulgaria
Permaculture Ball Rolls Rapidly down to the shores of Lake Batak In Bulgaria this month, the team of volunteers who are participating in the first-of-its-kind, FREE, year-round PDC have completed a detailed site analysis of this year’s location of the European Permaculture Convergence. The first phase of design, already on its way, has been to… Continue reading EUPC in Bulgaria
PLANT – Follow-Up to EPT
PLANT stands for Permaculture Learning Action Networking & Training. It wants to be the extension of the UK LAND project to the European Continent. In April 2014, an application was submitted to the ERASMUS+ EU funding scheme in order to pursue this objective. Here you can find a summary of the PLANT application: Permaculture is… Continue reading PLANT – Follow-Up to EPT