Designed Visions - Sustainability through Permaculture - Courses, Design and Consultancy

Advanced Permaculture Design Course

This one week course is designed as a follow on from the full permaculture design course. It is an ideal springboard for anyone wanting to start their permaculture diploma and will also complement those further along their action learning pathway. If you enjoyed your permaculture course and want to reconnect and deepen your understanding of permaculture design: this is the course for you!

The course is suitable for people:

Wanting to refresh their permaculture knowledge and reconnect with permaculture.
Involved in designing their own projects as well as working for others .
Wanting to teach permaculture.
Starting or doing their diploma.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course participants will:

Have developed their range of design skills and learn new techniques.
Have experienced how other people go about doing their designs.
Be able to choose the appropriate design tool for the job.
Have completed a design as part of a team.
Have gained experience in implementation of a design.

Modelling 3D landscapes in Planning for Real We will begin with an interactive review of the permaculture basics. We will then continue to gain practice with the design tools that you will have come across on the design course, and then expand your toolkit.

Throughout the course we will work using an action learning-driven design process. There will be frequent opportunities for reflection and feedback.

We will also be looking at ways we can use our flexible intelligences to transfer the design tools and frameworks to non-land based situations.

The tutors will be drawing upon their own portfolios of design work for working examples of permaculture design. Participants are also invited to bring their own designs along for feedback and support.

Course topics

The course curriculum will evolve according to the needs of the participants. Amongst the topics that we have identified as useful are:

Permaculture principles
Incorporating the ethics into design
Using design tools for non-land based design
Getting the most out of client interviews
Creating base maps, including 3D ones
Drawing skills
Listening and observation skills
Learning methods
Deciding which design framework and methods to use
Costings and implementation plans
How to produce a design that will be implemented
Making the most out of design presentations
Working as an effective design team
Producing a design portfolio
Working as a professional designer

The design methods, frameworks and tools you will have an opportunity to use:

SADIMET
OBREDIMET
Appreciative Inquiry
Life path analysis
Zone, sector and network analysis
Goal directed project management
Critical path, network analysis
PASTE sheets
SWOC analysis
Planning for real
Inputs and outputs analysis

If you enjoyed your permaculture course and want to reconnect and deepen your understanding of permaculture design: this is the course for you!