PermacultureChat

TraipAcademy

&

The Resilience Hub Designers

April 29, 2013

Talking Points

� Who we are

� Permaculture

� What this site could be?

� The Possibilities

� Whole system

� Curriculum

� Intern Program

� Best Leverage Point

� Next Steps

Who we are:

� Julie McLeod

� Experiential educator, gardener, permaculturedesigner, organic farm/CSA worker

� Stowell Watters

� Farm educator, farmer, artist, permaculture designer

� Rachel Lyn Rumson

� Action-based Service-learning educator, facilitator, process consultant, gardener, permaculture designer

Julie McLeod

Stowell Watters

Rachel Lyn Rumson

Permaculture

� Permaculture: a definition

"Permanent- Culture"

� Permanent Agriculture

� Social permaculture:

� building community

� re-localization

� capacity building

� participatory structures

� sharing design process with all

stakeholders...

� Applied Ecology

� Eco literacy

Permaculture

Ethics, Principles

elements of Design

Design

Permaculture is a design process:

1. Pre-work� Initial goal setting

� Research� Base maps

2. Site work� Observation and data

gathering

3. Assessment and Analysis� Assets/Challenges

� Niche analysis

4. Design Creation� Drafting design elements� Finalizing Design

5. Implementing design6. Repeat

Tool for Design:

Niche Analysis

What could this

become?

Possibilities

Conversation

� What could this spot become?

� An engine of relevance. RL

� Homestead v. High School

� If I get dirty, I am learning. JM• Experiences of choice to engage

with the land make deep internal impacts

� Squash Blossom Pizza! - SW

� When you’re involved in the

design process, and

implementing there is a sense of ownership that emerges.

Participatory Design

� Large scale whole system engagement

� Traip Level

� Multi stakeholder

input

� Community

Development

� Change management

Design Process

The Integrative &

Collaborative…

3 factors of Change

Technical

Political

Cultural

Methods of

Participatory Design

� World Café

� Open Space

� Data collection strategies

� Interviews

� Surveys

� Research

� Conversation Café

� Co-visioning

Permaculture Design

Curriculum Design

“What is important is that children have an

opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn

to love it, before being asked to heal it’s wounds.”

- David Sobel

Permaculture Design

Course

UMASS ¼ Acre

Curriculum Design

� Experiential

� Place Based

� Service Learning

Internship program

Internship program

� Mentors with their own

designs

� Tinker and learn

Next Steps

The key to future funding is a good design and thorough plan of action, purpose and goals

The Resilience Hub

� Designers Whole system

� Consulting designers/ advocates

� Curriculum Design

� Consulting educators/advocates

� Internship

� Guest Speaker/ advocates

Niche Analysis:

Traip Academy

Partnership Roles

� Sponsors� Decide when changes will happen

and provide reinforcement� Create an environment so change is

made on time and within budget

� Change Agents� Responsible for making the change

and executing plans effectively

� Targets� Those who must change or

accommodate the change being made

� Advocates� Can recommend ideas but do not

have the power to sanction them

Advocates need

Sponsors support

� A good sponsor must have:

� the power

� pain (discomfort with the status quo),

� vision

� resources

� the long view

� sensitivity

� scope

� a public role

� a private role

� consequence management techniques

� monitoring plans

� a willingness to sacrifice

� persistence

Consulting

Process

� Entry and Contacting

� Discovery and Dialogue

� Analysis and Decision to

Act

� Engagement and

Implementation

� Extension, Recycle or

Termination

Resources

� Dave Holmgren - Elder

� http://permacultureprinciples.com/

� U Mass permaculturegardens

� Public Schools Best Practices

� New England Grassroots Environment Fund

� David Sobel – Educator

� Place Based Education