Category: inquiries

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

I recently concluded my second inquiry which considered the relation between designing and implementing within permaculture. In this post I’ll revisit, re...

This video is of a short talk I gave over two years ago. It was June 2016, just as the whole Making Permaculture Stronger project was germinating and emerging i...

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...

It is high time to review and wrap up Making Permaculture Stronger’s second inquiry. This has been an inquiry into the relation between designing and impl...