07/04/2022
Save the dates!
Coming soon the next editions of our Ecotopias PDC+ Syntropic Agroforest
27/4 to 8/5
18/5 to 29/5
8/6 to 19/6
29/6 to 10/7
See more at www.ecotopias.org
Curriculum and timetable:
Day 1 - Wednesday
Session 1- Intros, Course & Site orientation
Welcoming
Brief presentations & games Tour
Course presentation & brief history of Permaculture
Session 2- Ethics-Principles
Ethics : The three cares: Earth, People, Future
Principles: Observe & interact; Gather & Store energy; Obtain a yield; Find regulation & accept feedback; Use & value renewable resources, services and knowledges; Produce no waste; Design from patterns to details; Integrate rather than segregate; Use adequate scale solutions; Value diversity; Use edges and margins & explore layers of periphery; Creatively use & respond to change
Session 3- Pattern learning & traditional cultures
What is a patterns and where to find them?
Who define what is a pattern and how to understand Pattern shaping vc pattern joining
Session 4- Energy Flow
From the begining: thermodinamic principles and other physicalities Life, dissipative structures and negenthropy
Convection, capilarity and bifurcations for border effect Creating life from life, because life is always there
Day 2 - Thursday
Session 1- Patterns 1 - presentation
Systemic thinking - linear and non linear causalities Traditional Mollison & Holmgreen approach
Session 2- Patterns 2 - finding patterns
Ethics and principles as patterns
ODS, Agenda 21, Earthcharter, Agenda Habitat as patterns
A Cell (structural isolation) and the problem of the boundaries in ecology Meditation: Am I an organism?
Session 3- Ecology Basics
The Sun, The Earth and origins of life Systems & Chains, Dynamics & Mechanics
The 4 pilars: homeostasis, resilience, self organization, bifurcation Atmospheric circulation
Trophic networks
Session 4- Water in Landscape
Air moisture, water vapour, clouds, rainfall, watershed, water table, rivers, lakes, oceans
Pinching water for everybodies benefit No drink no deal
Fighting desertification with bare mindset
Day 3 - Friday
Session 1 - Soil & Paths on time
Every erosion starts with uncover
Perenization as a forecast, or the possible meanings of permasoils Ancient roads and what can we learn from them
If you go one time, no road; if more follow you, beware the consequences Systemic fertility
Session 2- Plants & Fungi
How the plants get food
Fantastic Fungi and The Micelliæ (just another band's name) Life beyond measure. Thinking like a forest
Roots systems stratification
Session 3- Plants-Soils-Water 1
Hipermar and the sponge effect
Watersheds, Water tables, Biotic pump part 1 Paleoclimatology of the Eastern Sahara Making rivers great again
Session 4- Site Reading
Finding ways to live with the dwellers
Applying the 12 principles in 15 minutes: give us examples
Day 4 - Saturday
Session 1- Soil making - practical Composting and/or mineralization Increasing life underground fast Many ways for raising black earth
Session 2- Design patterns
4 exercises of patternhood:
Self sufficient cave
Self sufficient city
Self sufficient region
Self sufficient continent
Session 3- Design methods
Differences between hollistic, integral and other unified methods Theoretical issues on design: what about we cannot see before we do?
Combining approaches: Empirical, Qualitative, Collaborative, Participative, Situational, Prospective, Solidary
Session 4- Design tools
Collaborative tools:
maps
interviews
history
trees
clouds
diagrams
Day 5 - Sunday
Session 1- Tools & management in rural life
Basic tools safety, use & maintenance
Session 2- Design exercises in movement (zones 0 & 1)
What goes where?
Testing and retesting the effects of the design
Session 3- Design exercises ahead (zones 2 & 3)
Around the around: combining layers with distance, time and scale Testing and retesting the effects of the design
Session 4- Design exercises forward (zones 4 & 5) Popping the bubble: no boundaries for nature today Use less the uselessness
Testing and retesting the effects of the design
Day 6 - Monday
Session 1- Resource & Energy Conservation
Carbon as a source of living energy, storing carbon and life together Huge food production with no more than us
Session 2- Culture and Society in Deep Ecology
Design practices: social and spiritual engagement of all living beings
Session 3- Economy and Justice in a Possible World
Design practices: social and political engagement of all living futures
Session 4- Climate & biomes
Brief presentation about river cycles, soil building and depletion and plant adaptation
Day 7 - Tuesday
Session 1- Microclimates & ecosystems
Brief presentation about structure of ecossystems, stratification, succession ecology of communities evolution and livelihoods
Session 2- Plants-Soils-Water 2
Hipermar and the sponge effect, Watersheds, Water tables, Biotic pump part 2
Roots systems stratification: increasing life underground fast
How the forests get food with Fungi: many ways for raising black earth Life beyond measure. Thinking like a forest
Paleoclimatology of the Eastern Sahara, Making rivers great again
Session 3- Forests & Livelihoods
Brief presentation about forest peoples around the world. Debate
Session 4- Design exercises - inward
Day 8 - Wednesday
Session 1- Water systems - cycle & recycle
Traditional and modern tools to bring and distribute water Water treatment basics - brief presentation
Water reuses
Session 2- Community engagement & Livelihood learning
Design practices: unlearn the taught every day and observe as if it was the first time
Session 3- Succession & Structure of living systems
Who comes first, the shocken or the ego?
All together: stories up and down the time&space
Take a deep breath, we are here (what could we do if we did) Humankind as a(nothered) living system
Session 4- Reading Landscapes
When a landscape can exist?
Drawing future and past together with the same pencil
A no-dime landscape, or how the first peoples carved and thrived? Hierarchy: first the primal - sun, gravity, water, paths, plants, sights.
Day 9 - Thursday
Session 1- Full Silence
Session 2- Debate
Session 3- Climate-Forest-Soil-Landscape-Rain making
Weaving web of life: improving structures and functions of agroecossystems Build clouds as a life style
Session 4- Climate Design
How many hectares of agroforest do we need to feed the world? Atmosferic circulation and climate balances
Climate design
Day 10 - Friday
Session 1- Zone 0 - house making & living Fundamentals of bioconstruction Techniques clipshow
Session 2- Zone 1 - garden & accessible food (practical)
Before you start the task of changing the world, go around your house three times and find what to eat every day
Session 3- Zone 2 - integrative farm & holistic prospective
Re-tour on the land testing and retesting designs Debate
Session 4- Zone 3 - neighborhood & beloved dwellers
Bringing together all landscape partners to the agora. Why and if not?
Day 11 - Saturday
Session 1- Zone 4 - countryside life
Designs of the future with family, friends and global changes
Session 2- Zone 5 - live and let live
Design exercise: what else do we need for a perfect planet?
Sessions 3 and 4- Practical work: designing a farm & beyond
Tip: where is the cloud fence?
Day 12 - Sunday
Session 1- Practical work: understanding the design Redoing a farm & beyond design, once again Debate
Session 2- Design presentations
The Talent's Show
Session 3- Design presentations
The Talent's Show
Session 4- Party
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