10 December 2016
“As designers, your function is to know where to place things, and why. It is not your function to tell people how to garden, or how to build a house, or how to build a dam… Your function is to place things in the environment, and place them in such a way that you use their multiple functions, that you create low energy inputs for high yield and stability.” Bill Mollison, Co-Founder of Permaculture
This is our third and final day focussed on the four phase permaculture design process. This day will start collecting feedback about the first two modules on design and looking for what else will bring clarity and confidence. It’s likely we’ll do multiple exercises, mini designs or imaginary designs – getting people feel facile, clear and confidant about all phases of the permaculture design process. This should set the stage for year-long participants to head into summer break and complete their individual projects. There will be at least one individual project presentation and a graduation ceremony.
Tutors
Dan Palmer, Dave Hursthouse, Trish Waugh, Neville and Catherine Dunton-McLeod
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Feedback
“ Today was awesome. It was good to learn about scale, and the options for measuring a property: pacing it out, a honkin big tape measure, Google maps or triangulation.”
“Seeing everyone’s different plans was great. We all had to do them quite quickly, but still all four groups ended up with the food forest and the social areas in the same places. It made me feel like I might actually be understanding how this whole permaculture design thing works.”
“ The scenario- role play we did with the parents and the teenager was really credible. I appreciated watching the designer take the time to find out what was important to all of them. Now I understand why all the stakeholders have to be there at that first meeting and have to feel heard and valued for the final design to be a success.”
“What was really valuable for me was to learn about useful websites where I can get information about my property. I really wasn’t sure where I was going to get a nice map of my property, or how I would be able to draw the contour lines on the map once I got it, and I was really didn’t know how I was going to measure a property and transfer it onto paper accurately. After today, I know where to go to get started. “
“I liked getting to use the A-frame myself to measure swales. A well structured day.”
“ I liked going outside in bare feet, just dropping in and observing. And then in the afternoon, using maps and drawing in concept bubbles – where to put things in a general way, the food forest, the chooks, and moving them around until we got it just right and then focusing on more detail.”
“ This ninth module really brought everything I ‘ve been learning all year together.”
