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.

Stories to Decolonize Permaculture video

Submit your story

 Create a draft image of the recent state of permaculture thinking in the Spanish speaking world, identifying the countries and areas that are proclaiming to have a permaculture movement, visualizing who speaks about permaculture in which areas, what they are saying and in what direction they are developing (family projects, ecovillage, professional designers, regenerative agriculture practitioners…) → spreadsheet

• Create and reinforce connections between different permaculture practitioners in the Spanish speaking world, with a special focus on those who approach permaculture professionally or wish to do so, by using a participatory process for the design of GG (General Goal) 3.
• Create texts and images optimized for different social media platforms (facebook, instagram, whatsapp…) that help permaculture practitioners (and specifically professional consultants, designers and educators) in the Spanish speaking world to communicate fundamental concepts and ideas of permaculture. These resources will also help to make visible to a wider audience the value of the permaculture design approach in our current global climate and socioeconomic context.
  • Make the created material freely and easily available on perma.earth and through collaborating agents.
  • Impulse the circulation of the created material in the social media channels of the participants of the process by a hashtag campaign.

1. In phase 2 of this project (Emergent Festival 2024) we envision the Design of a Work Group to co-create a set of Permaculture Infographics in Spanish and its Process, or put in other words, we want to Design the Participatory Design that will take place in phase 3, a Comm-PC-Span (com-psi-span) Festival within the Emergent Festival.

2. Engage in this collaborative permaculture design process and document it, sharpening our own designer’s skills as well as sharing an example of a possible diploma portfolio design with the world.

3. As a consequence / impact line of events: Reinforce the Spanish Speaking Permaculture Movement and Make the Permaculture CoLab more wider known.

Baserow results of people/projects that responded to our mail and filled out the form

Infographics of data harvested