This short course is an intensive introduction to Urban Permaculture and how to live an urban life that minimizes the negative environmental and social impacts while contributing to a more vibrant and communal urban landscape and culture. We begin by understanding how life works and utilizing that knowledge to design and act for our own life and needs. Following this we give brief overviews of Water, Food production, Soil, and Appropriate Technologies in the urban landscape. We look at these both from the individual/family level of interactions to community strategies and processes. We conclude by giving a step-by-step approach to changing your current practices and day-to-day life to a more Environmentally, Climatic, and Community affirming approach. In this course we will present these topics and understandings via Lecture, Photos, Group Discussions, short videos, and exercises. If you want to contribute to solving many of the challenges we are facing today, or simply to have a more meaningful and engaged life, this course is for you.
As part of this course we will provide up to 16 gb of resource material and data.
TOPICS
Morning Session 9:00 to 1:00 (4h) Lunch 90 min Afternoon Session 14:30 to 18:30 (4h)
Day 1
Intro to Permaculture & Urban Pc
MORNING SESSION: Understanding Where we are starting from
Introduction
2 weeks into 1 Day
THE CONCEPTS
What is Sustainability?
- Intro Regenerative Systems & Permaculture
- Systems Thinking and Cycles
Introduction to How Life Works: ‘How to create Regenerative systems’
- Flows and Nodes
- Creation and Destruction
- Edge
TEA BREAK
Permaculture Principles
How to Make Things Happen
- Observation and Discernment
- Patterns
- Regenerative Systems are not Installed
- Grow Systems
- Indirect Manifestation
- Going Meta
- How We Structure Reality
- Summation: Making Things Happen
LUNCH
Systems Exercise
Goldilocks Zone/Point
Energy Storage & Resources
THE ELEMENTS
Water , Soil, Plants, and Animals
Appropriate Technologies
- What is Technology, The Challenge of High Tech
- What is Appropriate?
TEA
Microclimates and Buildings
Buildings, Nodes, McC’s, Social McC’s, Shaping Experiences
Invisible Structures
WHAT IS DESIGN
- Intro Design & Design Process
- Site Assessment
- Sectors, inventories, Mapping, etc.
- Design Methodologies
- Zones and Other Tools
Immediate Practical Actions to become more Regenerative
See Doc, ‘What to Do, Practical ……Human’ in Shared Folder (Urban Short Course)
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
EVENING PROGRAM: PHOTOSHOW: URBAN PERMACULTURE
A Semi-World tour visiting cities to see Urban Sustainability practices, including,
Food Production, Community Gardens, City Repair, and Living Architecture
Day 2
Question and Answers from Yesterday’s Curriculum
Soil
- Introduction
- Building
- Composting and Vermicomposting
- Compost Tea and Soup
- Indigenous Micro-Organisms (IMO’s)
- Toxins and Bio-Remediation
Integrated Pest Management
what is it? + formulas
TEA BREAK
Water In Urban Landscapes
- Living
- Harvesting and working with
- Greywater
- Business and politics
- What’s Happening in Turin
Urban Food Production 45
- Introduction
- Food Kilometres
- Challenge of Soil
- Plants
- Basics
- Soil, Tiny Soil, Light,
- Annuals v. Perennials
- Companion Planting & Guilds
- Basics
LUNCH
Urban Food Production cont.
- Planting in Communities
- Growing in Containers
- Vertical Gardening vs. Vertical Farming
- Mixed Plantings
hedges, jungle garden, windbreaks
PHOTOSHOW: Urban Plantings
Climate Change and Urban responses
- What is likely to Happen Where
- Strategies and Adaptations
TEA BREAK
Tea & A Movie: Global Gardener, Urban Pc with B. Mollison 45
WHAT TO DO NOW
Final Discussion: What to do Now? INTRO
- If we have enough people can break into smaller groups for discussion and Ideas
- Groups give ‘report’ of their ideas, and we can try to get commitments for people to follow-up on a potential project
Invisible Structures & Creating an Urban Network 15
- Reference Transition Movement
Retrofitting the City
Urban Agriculture & Other Urban Strategies
- Landscape of the City
- Community Gardens
- Suburban Micro Farms
- Terrace gardening
- Animals in the Cityscape
Final Discussion: What to do Now?
Groups give ‘report’ of their ideas, and we can try to get commitments for people to follow-up on a potential project
Form: form: tinyurl.com/mrx2mf3b
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