Stories to Decolonise Permaculture
Creating a free resource of stories about the origins and inspirations behind permaculture to aid teachers and practitioners in decolonising permaculture
Team
Rakesh Rootsman Rak, Ewan Findley, Jemma Findley
Reporting Officer: Rakesh Rootsman Rak
Area
Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent festival, Next Steps project
Objectives
April 2023
By the end of October 2023 we will have
1. A way for people to capture electronically stories of the origins and inspirations of permaculture.
2. A process in place to verify the content
3. A way in which to share for free verified content to the public
4. Run a session for CoLab to explain how people can add content and how to use the content
5. Run a session for Permaculture Association Britain’s Educators CoP to explain how they can add content and how to use the content
6. Deliver a session on this work at the UK Permaculture convergence in September
Updated aims due to lack of funding through the Emergent Festival –
The amount allocated means we have budget for 24 hours of work, hence the first 3 parts of the project
8 – 8 – Look at what data we want to capture
8 – 16 – Create a structure to hold the data in a meaningful and flexible way (normalisation)
8 – 24 – Create a way for people to enter the initial sample content.
To complete the project we will apply for further funding from the CoLab Diversity pot.
For any shortfall, we will do crowdfunding to the general permaculture people worldwide.
We are confident we will achieve this, so this initial amount is a great way to get us up and running.
OUTCOMEs
November 2023 Update
The following objectives have been met:
1. The initial input for stories is via the following Google forms. In the future we may move this to a baserow form.