Note: For 2021, our focus will be on producing and providing the Gardening Essentials course. We look forward to offering more Permaculture Design courses in the future.
This is the best process we know to guide the successful design of a home, garden, lifestyle block, or community.
This day introduces the design framework and design process which you’ll be practising all year. It’s clear, coherent, easy to remember and we think provides a “critical missing” to most design.
In the morning, we’ll explore holistic decision making and people interviewing skills with group exercises; we’ll go outside and use all our senses to read the landscape; we’ll then break out the paper, pencils, and compasses to learn about base maps, scale, topography, slope, and aspect.
In the afternoon, the design process moves onto broad concept drawings on aerial and base maps. You’ll see examples of finished design work and you can begin to sort out what will work for your project presentation in 12 months time.
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Feedback
“Good design is as much about the people as it is about the land. Today, Dan got me feeling confidant about assessing both.”
“I was knocked off my feet today in the morning session. I thought what was most important to me was reworking my life so I had more discretionary time. As my partner and I got into the exercise, I was stunned to find that what I really needed was just to be kinder to myself.”
“This is exactly what my wife and I were hoping for, a clear, step-by-step process to use with all the choices we have to make on our lifestyle block.”
Quotes
“Design is an elusive and enigmatic alchemy. Yet the magic of design lives, not in any design technique we might learn and use, but inside each one of us. The ( design process) techniques serve only to connect each of us to our own living creative process. ” Jacke & Toensmeier,
Edible Forest Gardens, VII, p. 156
“Choose protracted and thoughtful observation rather than a brief period of observation followed by protracted and thoughtless labour.” Bill Mollison