Translation Circle Incubation
The Translation Circle is a group of multicultural and multilingual individuals with a sensitivity for Permaculture Concepts across frontiers. More than just technical translation, our group offers bridges, allowing more dynamic exchanges to happen between local, regional and international permaculture groups and individuals within the PC Colab as to its external collaborators and followers.
The translation circle service is a prototype of a regenerative enterprise model that offers translation services to collectives of people and individuals across the planet who are looking for a technically knowledgeable and culturally sensitive translation service of material that is directed towards Design for Sustainability.
We feel this ecological niche allows us to help accelerate succession to a truly sustainable future whilst generating right livelihoods in the socio-economic environment.
Team
Aline VaMo, Claudia Dörr, Luiza Oliveira, Mayi Lekuona, Meiling Colorado
Area
Circle incubation and nourishment, Capacity+ project
Objectives
– A personal bridge to a larger and more diverse network of permaculture practitioners, mediating between cultures by showing understanding of the cultural backgrounds and adapting the information from one emissor to the final recipient.
– Translation service ad hoc (written and spoken – as interpreters) available to partners of the CoLab as well as external PC practitioners and anyone working in the Sustainability and Regenerative Design field.
– Create a glossary of words and terminologies that are being used by the CoLab community at present and might be used for future projects in order to make this vocabulary (possibly rather “academic” or “business-like” for some) accessible to all.
– Implementing research on specific terms and technicalities related to permaculture and the functioning of the CoLab, building on work of others already committed to this task and co-creating valuable resources across languages with them
OUTCOMEs
February 2023 Update
We have informed the #general-circle of our decision to dismantle our closed structure, after completing the 2-year process in which we committed to investigating a business model for a possible permaculture translation organization.
We tried on the NextCloud but preferred working on our Miro board and kept a record in a Google Drive, as even the Miro board felt not inclusive at times (loading capacity, device from which members were connecting, quick reference etc).
Please find here our reports of Year 1 (Nov/Dec 2020 & 2021) and Year 2 (2022)We have a #WLTT list (Would Love To Translate), which you might want to get your teeth stuck into in your free time, or find funding for.
So as of 2023, we are an “open” circle, with no formal pattern of meetings or projects on the go. Feel free to connect with Aline VaMo if you’d like to take an active role in changing that.