Positive, negative and neutral design – guest post by Shane Simonsen
At its heart permaculture is a design oriented philosophy. When we go through the design process we normally take note of the local landforms and resources as i...
Author: makingpermaculturestronger
Dan Palmer’s Journey with Permaculture Design Process and David Holmgren’s Response (E11)
This episode is a recording of a session during a four-day workshop that was run last week by David Holmgren from Holmgren Design and Dan Palmer from Making Per...
Jascha Rohr on the Field Process Model (E10)
In this episode Dan Palmer from Making Permaculture Stronger speaks with Jascha Rohr from the Institute for Participatory Design which is based in Oldenburg, Ge...
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Commentary from Anthony Briggs (Inquiry 2, Post 25)
Note from Dan: In this post Anthony Briggs from Melbourne shares his reflections on Making Permaculture Stronger, the current inquiry and in particular an alter...
Robyn Francis on her Permaculture Journey (E09)
In this episode Dan from Making Permaculture Stronger enjoys a conversation with permaculture elder Robyn Francis from Djanbung Gardens. Amongst other things Ro...
Simultaneous Permaculture Gardening and Design Implementation (Inquiry 2, Post 24)
Author: Alexander Olsson Note from Dan: In this post Alexander brings us back to our ongoing inquiry into the relation between designing and implementing inside...
The Resilio Studio Design Process Primer: Part Three – Finn and Gary’s reply to the first instalment of Dan’s review
By Finn Mackesy and Gary Marshall This blog post started as a comment on Dan’s first blog post reviewing and critiquing our Design Process Primer and evolved in...
A Summary of Progress Made and Where to from Here
Two posts back we clarified and documented permaculture’s core understanding of design as a process of assembling elements into wholes. We also shared Chr...
A Conversation with David Holmgren
This post shares excerpts from recent email conversation between David Holmgren and Dan Palmer. The conversation grew from David’s reflections on a draft ...