pdc+++ module 2 class 7
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How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design? It is easy to design if we are clear about the design principles, but much more difficult to really understand & integrate these principles in our practice. In this class we go into more depth about the design principles, with lots of examples of each in order to understand them better.TRANSCRIPT
Class 2.7 of the PDC+++How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
It is easy to design if we are clear about the design principles, but much more difficult to really understand & integrate these principles in our practice.
In this class we go into more depth about the design principles, with lots of examples of each in order to understand them better.
Class2.7 PDC+++
How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
Principles & ValuesThe Design PrinciplesDesigning the PrinciplesHolmgren's Principles
Class2.7 PDC+++
How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
Principles & ValuesThe Design PrinciplesDesigning the PrinciplesHolmgren's Principles
"Principles"
sometimes gets confused
with "Values"
What is the difference?
Principles - more objective(not our choice, more 'what there is - collective experience)
Values - more subjective(we choose them: they canbe principles or not)
And what about the Criteria?
Class2.7 PDC+++
How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
Principles & ValuesThe Design PrinciplesDesigning the PrinciplesHolmgren's Principles
PRINCIPLES
Ecology
taken from the natural sciences: biology, chemistry,
physics, etc.
Attitudefrom our experience,
philosophy, psichology, common sense, etc.
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
M1
M3
M2
Stacking - in space, stacking functions, stacking in time (up-downs)
MiniMax
Yield is limited only by Imagination
80% of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships
Brian Tracy
Ups&Downs
One Element fulfills multiple Functions
One Function supportedby many Elements
Niches
Relative Location
ReduceConsumption
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Plan in Zones & Sectors - is also a design technique > M2.9
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Ups&Downs - take into account, there are all types
Plagues of ..grasshoppers, etc.
Pollution =a resource that the systemcan't process
www.airBnB.com
Fruit
Plan well people/work
Optimal useof resources
SummerHols
Super-Harvests
ReduceConsumption
tides Periods
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Relative Location - the optimal situation for each element
Mini-Max
Yield limited onlyby the imagination
ReduceConsumption
Plan in Zones & Sectors
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
One Element fulfills multiple Functions
Create Connexions - 1st avoid them braking, repair & weave
Create Bridges
Yield limited onlyby the imagination
Un elemento multiples funciones
ReduceConsumption
Appropiate Technology
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Each Element - Many Functions - all to be as multi-functional as possible Analisis of elements - to
find all its needs & functions
MiniMax
Relative LocationReduceConsumption
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Míni-Max
Use Biological Resources
Local
Appropriate Tech
Care of Earth
Analisis of elements - to find all its needs & functions
Each Element - Many Functions - all to be as multi-functional as possible
Each Function-multiple Elements - esp. important functions!
Security
ALWAYS have aPlan B, C, D...
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Appropiate Technology - in M4 .. lots on this!
Designfrom engineering, technical
design architecture, IT, cybernetics, etc.
Class2.7 PDC+++
How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
Principles & ValuesThe Design PrinciplesDesigning the PrinciplesHolmgren's Principles
Pattern Language
Planning for Real
Future Histories, Future Search & Design Visions
Analytical Design
ObservationPASE (+ client questionnaire)
Deduction from Nature / imitating nature
Options & Decisions
Data Layering
Random Connections
Flux Diagrams
Zones & Sectors
Incremental or Development
Design by the application of principles
Guild Creation
Systems engineering
Application of Principles
Métodos de diseño
???
excercise - ¡Integrate!
maximize the +
minimize the -
+ 3 types of principles+ more concrete (detail)+ space for own creativity+ tree (memorize, etc.)+ more graphical- not 'official' (book?)- not so attractive 'packaged'- infantile appearance?
Everything Evolves
+ the colours!+ less principles+ good graphic design+ book accompanie+ emphasis on EMERGY - not so much detail- linear- a bit abstract- icons also (abstract)
¿How can we
illustrate
the principles
so that they can be
"read"
in shapes?
graphic design!
this one shows something of the relationshipsbetween the principles(but not in an optimal way..)
A piece of the design of the Chaordic PC Institute
http://permacultureinstitute.pbworks.com
which maybe will be re-designed as the CI of IP?
trying to make a truly participative design ...
in a world of 'stars & followers'... first pilot here:
an excercise in COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
this is a partof the
presentation
I tried to illustratethe principleswith shapes
+ APPLYPri
nciples
Principles
Each important function is
supported by many elements
importantfunction
supported by
many elements
Learning/TeachingPermaCulture
Diploma
Labs
Nets
groups
dialogues
portafolios
Who’sWho
Pioneers introductions
allies, contactsour historyCULTURE
maps
existing relationships
research groupsworking groups
Appropiate Technology
lots of IT people in PC now
(give them jobs!)
Principles
‘High Technology’ CAN be appropiate!
increase in internet use:
change portafolio design
lots of new self-publishing tools: self-managing
the MOST appropiate use of Internet tec
MUST be to teach permaculture!?
Information Technology(IT)
Connection Strategies
Principles not Personalities
(professionalism)
Principles
Tutors for pre-dips (without so much travel)
Support Groups between Perma-Investigators
Who’sWho
Inter-relating Investigations
Maximizing Edge
Principles
investigators
investigations
organizations
pioneers
email group (tutorials and dialogues - the corridors)
groups
individual
Courses
Accelerating Natural Succesion
Principles
‘mulching’ - VALUING & CHERISHING the work
knowing our history (culture) - the pioneers
learning - accelerated by personal relationships
(with information)
action-learning needs lots of communication:
& to have the theory ‘at hand’ when most relevant
Principios
MiniMax
Problem = Solution
Re-framing some concepts
changing SLIGHTLYdiploma portafolios
much more learning
and contacts for everyone
+ more self-regulation
more peer-learning / teaching opportunities lass admin
for diplomats
www.PermaCultureScience.net
It's a mega-design in which you can participate!
Class2.7 PDC+++
How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
Principles & ValuesThe Design PrinciplesDesigning the PrinciplesHolmgren's Principles
Observe and interact
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’
Catch and store energy
‘Make hay while the sun shines'
Obtain a yield
‘You can't work on an empty stomach'
Obtain a Yield
Systems that most effectively obtain a
yield and use it most effectively to meet
the needs of survival, tend to prevail over
alternatives.
Darwin Kropotkin
Mutual AidCompetition
The “YIELD” of a system is
theoretically unlimited- IMAGINATION -
physical
biological
espatial
Technical
conservation
social
cultural
Legal /administrative
temporal Considers ‘upstream costs’ (energía into) and
‘downstream costs’ (ex, health)
CyclesNiches in time
“capture flow”
A sustainable system produces all the energy and resources that the system needs for it's maintainment and development. The surplus is the YIELD
Energía into < System own purposes Energy + Yield
ENERGYACCOUNTING(Sustainabilty)
Apply Self-regulation and Accept Feedback
‘The sin of the fathers are visited
on the children unto the seventh generation’
Apply Self-regulation and accept feedback
Lower order systemproviders
HigherOrder
Systemcontroller
Energy Storage
Tripartite Altruism
1/3
1/3
1/3
Set Direct feedback Mechanisms
What would happen it a car have the exhaust
fed back into the passenger
compartment rather than being aimed at
the pedestrians?
Observe
A Dramatic Example:
Use and value Renewable Resources and Services
‘Let nature take it's course’
Produce no waste
‘A stitch in time saves nine’
‘Waste not, want not’
Design from patterns to Details
'Can't see the wood for the
trees'
Integrate rather than segretate
'Many hands make light work'
Use Small and slow solutions
‘The bigger they are, the harder they fall’
‘Slow and steady wins the race’
Use and value Diversity
‘Don't put all your eggs in one basket’
Use Edges and value the Marginal
‘Don't think you are in the right track just because it is a well-
beaten path’
Creatively use and respond to change
‘Vision is not seeing things as they are but as they will
be’
Class 2.7 of the PDC+++How do we apply the fundamental principles to Permaculture Design?
It is easy to design if we are clear about the design principles, but much more difficult to really understand & integrate these principles in our practice.
In this class we go into more depth about the design principles, with lots of examples of each in order to understand them better.