On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 6
Well, here we are, having arrived at post six in an inquiry into the relation between designing and implementing in permaculture. Let me recap what’s come...
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On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 5
Building on the last post this post goes deeper into the beef of both an acorn and Christopher Alexander with the culturally (and, as we’ve seen, permacul...
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 4
The first and second posts of this inquiry summarised nine different published presentations of permaculture design process. The third post shared a seeming con...
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 3
Permaculture was founded on the premise that humans must mimic natural systems if they are to survive (let alone thrive!). Accepting this premise prompts a rath...
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 1
In this second Making Permaculture Stronger inquiry, I consider the relationship between designing and implementing within current understandings of permacultur...
Christopher Alexander’s Neglected Challenge to Permaculture
Consider the opening statements of what are possibly the two most prominent definitions of permaculture: Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious d...
Weak Link Analysis Revisited, the Permaculture Tree (take three), and a Confession.
Here I want go deeper into the idea of identifying and addressing weak links toward making permaculture stronger. This idea is the seed of this entire project. ...
A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part Two
Prefix: This post gets to the same point as the previous one in a different way. Just getting crystal clear on the nature of this weak link in permaculture in i...
A Proposed Weak Link: Neglect of Design Process: Part One
Here I want to propose a first weak link of permaculture in its design system sense. This weak link is the neglect of design process in permaculture literature,...