HOW TO CREATE REGENERATIVE SYSTEMS
Permaculture is an ethical method, based on the natural sciences. It applies a systemic design that enhance the accumulation of resources (physical, knowledgeable, social, political etc.) in the landscape itself. It is a process-oriented practice promoting regenerative actions. It facilitates permanent, rational, inclusive and life-giving cultures.
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.
Day 1, Saturday
Introductions
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
- Energy Storage
- Goldilocks Zone/Point
- Edge
How to Make Things Happen
- How We Structure Reality
- Observation and Discernment
- Patterns
- Regenerative Systems are not Installed
- Grow Systems
- Indirect Manifestation
- Going Meta
- Systems Exercise
- Summation: Making Things Happen
WHAT IS DESIGN
- Intro Design & Design Process
- Observation & Pc Principles
- Site Assessment
- Sectors, inventories, Mapping, etc.
- Design Methodologies
- Zones and Other Tools
Water In Urban Landscapes
- Living
- Harvesting and working with
- Greywater
- Business and politics
- What’s Happening in Turin
Urban Food Production
- Introduction
- Food Kilometres
- Challenge of Soil
- Planting in Communities
- Growing in Containers
- Vertical Gardening vs. Vertical Farming
- Companion Planting & Plant Guilds
- Mixed Plantings
hedges, jungle garden, windbreaks
Tea & A Movie: Global Gardener, Urban Pc with B. Mollison
EVENING PROGRAM OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Talk with Photoshow: URBAN PERMACULTURE
A Semi-World tour visiting cities to see Urban Sustainability practices, including,
Food Production, Community Gardens, City Repair,
Day 2, Sunday
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
Appropriate Technologies
- What is Appropriate?
- Passive Systems
- Water
- Ovens and Hayboxes
- Bicycle Tech
- Energy intro, solar, wind
Microclimates and Buildings
- Buildings, Nodes, McC’s, Social McC’s, Shaping Experiences
Buildings and Appropriate Technologies
Adapting and converting existing structures
Immediate Practical Actions to become more Regenerative
See Doc, ‘What to Do, Practical ……Human’ in Shared Folder (Urban Short Course)
Climate Change and Urban responses
- What is likely to Happen Where
- Strategies and Adaptations
Invisible Structures & Creating an Urban Network
- 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
Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ib-RC6p5Em37KnMCJuDuzSe3AUHJ3EUzvz8yotrqTe8/edit?ts=63f717fc&fbclid=IwAR334vGSl0xOxNUjBl1VwBJIri0HEJ_1QbghQPCKOmCDNyY-WTkXmRYQ_PQ