Adventures in Design Process Awareness – Assembling vs Partitioning
Greetings all. This week I share a little video in part because I’ve been so occupied in my design process facilitation work I’ve not had the time t...
Category: inquiries
Bringing it all together in one diagram (Part Six) – Mapping the Centre of Gravity and Trajectory of a Project
In the last post I showed how this diagram I’ve been developing can help us map certain aspects of the evolution of our own individual design processes. C...
Bringing it all together in a diagram (Part Five) – Mapping the Evolution of your Design Process Signature
Each and every one of us creates things. Daily. Constantly. Humans are essentially creative, in the sense that they are always creating things, bringing new for...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Four – the Nine Spaces)
The below diagram summarises coming up to three years of publicly poking around into how permaculture design is usually defined, discussed, and practiced. I am ...
A mini-conversation with Jason Gerhardt
Hey all, for reasons I’m sure will be obvious I’ve decided to promote this insightful comment on the last post from Jason Gerhardt into a post. Mean...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Three of Five)
A couple of posts back I introduced a diagrammatic snapshot of where Making Permaculture Stronger has arrived after over two years conducting two in-depth inqui...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Two of Five)
The last post introduced this weird and possibly confusing little diagram: The diagram frames a pathway from more conventional design processes toward what I be...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part One of Five)
The following diagram is a hyper-condensed summary of over two years, 80 posts and 70,000 words worth of this blog’s assorted ramblings about permaculture...
What is Design, Anyway?
I wanted to bring together a bit of recent facebook discussion about what design is and what design might have to do with permaculture. What is Design? First up...
Review and Refresh of Inquiry One
I recently concluded my second inquiry which considered the relation between designing and implementing within permaculture. In this post I’ll revisit, re...