by charliewilson | May 30, 2023
The CoLab Podcast was funded through the Emergent Festival and is hosted on the Learn website.
In these Podcast interviews, we interview people from around the world who are involved in interesting and inspiring grassroots permaculture projects.
Aims of the project
The aim is to give a platform for grassroots permaculture projects to speak about what they are doing and to gain exposure and promotion.
We also aim to create a pool of educational resources that can be accessed by anybody. This will provide value and will help to attract people to the CoLab.
Charlie Wilson, Daniel Attwell
Reporting Officer: Charlie Wilson
Training and eLearning, Emergent festival, Next Steps project
We would prepare by using the CoLab slack channel and CoLab newsletter to find 6 willing participants who want to be interviewed about their grassroots permaculture projects. This could take 1 month.
Before the interviews, we would glean some basic information about the participant’s projects so that we can then prepare questions.
The interviews themselves would be 1 hour long at a maximum. We would aim to do one interview a week, over the course of 6 weeks. We would pay the participants a fee for the interviews as an incentive.
After the interviews, there may need to be some minor editing. We would need to do a short write-up and then upload the materials to the Learn website, perhaps adding some graphics and making it look presentable.
We would then seek to promote the podcasts using the CoLab Slack channel, CoLab LinkedIn, and CoLab newsletter.
We received extra funding and finally had the capacity to record 7 podcast interviews.
All of the interviews have been completed, listened back to, and edited. We have created a “home” page for the CoLab podcasts and then created individual web pages for each interview. We have added a write-up and some simple graphics.
One episode per month was released, as this allowed for promotion using the CoLab newsletter, slack channel, and LinkedIn channel. All podcast episodes are now up and available.
The biggest problem during the project was arranging interviews with people who didn’t show up. This happened a number of times and was a considerable waste of time for the team.
The best part of the project was learning about all of the wonderful grassroots projects and hearing inspiring stories from people making an actionable difference.
by charliewilson | May 30, 2023
We are creating and testing an online course that focuses specifically on creating accessible and safe work spaces and community spaces.
Project Aims
The course seeks to Promote Diversity, Accessibility, Inclusion, Equity & Justice in work spaces and within communities.
The course will be a resource that can be accessed by anybody who wishes to learn more about permaculture. It will add value to the CoLab space.
Charlie Wilson, Daniel Attwell
Reporting Officer: Charlie Wilson
Training and eLearning, Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent festival, Next Steps project
April 2023
Daniel has already undertaken much of the work, transcribing audio segments and creating a well-structured course outline. We would like to add graphics and make the course more presentable. This could be done within a week.
Once this is complete we would promote the course on social media, including the CoLab Slack and the CoLab LinkedIn page, and run a first test version. We anticipate a month of promotion would be needed to get a willing team of participants to take the course.
We would first allow people to take the course for free and gather feedback. We would have to wait for people to complete the course, this could take 2-3 weeks. We would then use this feedback to improve the course and create a final version. This could be done within a week.
October 2023
Course creation has been completed. We promoted the course and had a number of participants who offered feedback.
We used the feedback to make necessary edits. Please feel free to take the course and apply it in your work spaces and then leave feedback for us to further develop it.
We hope it will add value for Permaculture projects to apply the design tools shown in the course and help give greater diversity within these communities.
by charliewilson | May 18, 2023
The Emergent Festival is an opportunity for active members of the International Permaculture CoLab to test out and bring to light micro projects, enhancements to existing activities, or explorations of new ideas over a short period of time – 6 months + supporting events.
It is also an opportunity to bring new people into the CoLab, as long as they are supported and held by current active members with the intention to remain active in this space.
Project Aims
To make visible what is emergent in the community within the agreed International Permaculture CoLab Vision Mission and Aims.
To allow active members of the International Permaculture CoLab to support emergent projects within and on the edge of the CoLab
Jyo Maan, Jorge Barbosa, Aimee Fenech
Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent Festival, Next Steps project
CoLab members can pitch their ideas and will receive funding through a process of allocation of monies by the most active CoLab members.
CoLab members can pitch their ideas and will receive funding through a process of allocation of monies by the most active CoLab members.
