Permaculture in Africa

por charliewilson | Jun 6, 2024

Permaculture in Africa

We would like to explore the possibility of incubating a circle that would bridge the gap between grassroots projects in Africa and the CoLab (and beyond).

Funded with 1750 GBP through emergent festival

STATUS : ONGOING

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Team

Mhkulu Colossa, Siobhan Vida Ashmole, Josie Redmonds, Aimee Fenech

Reporting Officer: Mhkulu Colossa

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Area

Prototyping, Emergent festival, Next Steps project, Diversity, participation and engagement

Objectives 2025

The high level objective is to grow and strengthen the work of the Permculture in Africa (PIA) circle through a project designed to help meet the needs of grassroots PIA members in navigating and getting value from the CoLab. This project aims to create an accessible onboarding pathway/guide as well as curate/collect resources tailored for PIA grassroots projects.

Objectives:

1. Develop a guide/pathway for permaculturists from Africa to better navigate the CoLab and the resources provided.

◦ What is it -introduction to CoLab, why are you here , where to go next, what is available, permission to engage/culture, add people you meet in CoLab to linkedin/other sm, how to be an egaged community member (refer to training) – a short document

◦ By when we will complete it: – Mid August – testing time in community

◦ How will we know that this has been successful / quality output / relevant – feedback from community and PIA circle, feedback from African Permaculturists who would like to join/ have joined.

◦ How will it be useful post grant: it is a resource which is valuable to people coming in post funding and still be useful to help them becoming engaged.

2. Curate, collect, and share resources tailored for PIA grassroots projects, including opportunities, information, capacity building, funding, and co-marketing:

◦ What is it that we are sharing – opportunities, information, capacity building, funding, and co-marketing, identify key areas to start (identified by the community)

◦ How many resources – depends on budget est 1 hour per post – could be multiple resources per post

◦ How will we know that this has been succesful / quality output / relevant – think hard about the curation and really highlighting the value

◦ How will it be useful post grant – focus on perennial (how the seasonal can be perennial – eg share funder not funding opp with deadline)

◦ When do we do this – throughout the project time

Outcomes 2025

Objectives 2024

We would like to conduct a picture forming exercise to put together a Vision, Mission and Aims for this project that is co-created by stakeholders present in the CoLab

Starting with answering:

what could be the main objectives of this project
what could be the next steps in order to get the project on the road
Who needs to be included and consulted to make this project effective?
What do we consider effective and impactful here?

At the end of this exercise we should be able to:

produce a co-created VMAs
identify next steps & have enough information for an action plan
Identify possible collaborators/ important groups we should consider working together with

We aim to complete this exercise between March 18 and April 15 and would release the findings during the Emergent Festival.

outcomes 2024

We have completed the picture-forming exercise, co-created VMAs for this new circle, and come up with a list of potential collaborations and next steps.

Permaculutre in Africa is now a new circle within the CoLab.

Members are: Vida Ashmole, Aimee Fenech and Josie Redmond

resources created

VMAs.

Picture forming journey.

contact links

contact@perma.earth

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Tepla Gora Eco Market

por charliewilson | Ene 13, 2024

Tepla Gora Eco Market

A community-driven marketplace that connects small organic and handcraft producers from Carpathians, wider Ukraine (and soon beyond) with international buyers.

The idea comes from Tepla Gora Eco Centre, based in Carpathian mountains, Ukraine. We are a natural retreat, ecovillage, volunteering and permaculture centre. Our website is teplagora.org.

The online marketplace for local organic products has been part of Tepla Gora’s vision from early on. But it was due to the war that some internally displaced people (IDP) that stayed at the eco centre have joined the team and together we started looking at ways to build more resilience in these uncertain times. The eco marketplace seemed like a great opportunity to do that in a way that would be a win-win-win: by diversifying our organisation, supporting IDP team members and scaling our impact by supporting local ecopreneurs and the broader community in Ukraine and soon abroad.

Funded with 294.30 GBP through emergent festival

Funded with 1300 GBP through diversity stipends

STATUS : COMPLETED

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Team

Andriy Grushetsky, Iryna Kotsar

Reporting Officer: Andriy Grushetsky

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Area

Prototyping, Emergent festival, Next Steps project, Diversity, participation and engagement

Objectives

To support the project manager financially for one month.
To buy example products for trial and/or order professional photography services.

OUTCOMEs

Project Update October 2023

A market stall at Tepla Gora cafe has been set-up and we have been selling local hand-made products to the eco centre visitors. There have been circa 40 sales with a 6 euros average purchase for total of 300 euros.

We have researched and put in place systems for card payments processing (both for offline and online), cash register, accounting and stock management.

Branded packaging and stickers were designed and produced for Tepla Gora branded products.

We promoted the ecomarket during our events and through social media.

The online store language has been changed to Ukrainian to accommodate the interest from our community in Ukraine and to get some online traction quicker.

We have also polished the store design, navigation, texts and have been adding the products descriptions and photos. We added the payment method and integrated delivery service provider functionality.

We are planning to promote the online store in Ukraine first (Q1, Q2 of 2024), and then to add the English version and promote it abroad (Q3, Q4 2024). At the same time we will continue engaging with small craft producers and permaculture farms to add their products to the marketplace and expand the products range.

resources created

Tepla Gora’s online presence and in-person shop:

contact links

contact@perma.earth

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Stories to Decolonise Permaculture

por charliewilson | May 30, 2023

Stories to Decolonise Permaculture

Creating a free resource of stories about the origins and inspirations behind permaculture to aid teachers and practitioners in decolonising permaculture

Funded with 610 GBP through emergent festival

Funded with 2,518.00 GBP through diversity grant

STATUS : COMPLETED

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Team

Rakesh Rootsman Rak, Ewan Findley, Jemma Findley

Reporting Officer: Rakesh Rootsman Rak

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Area

Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent festival, Next Steps project

Objectives

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.

OUTCOMEs

November 2023 Update

The following objectives have been met:

By the end of October 2023 we will have
1. The initial input for stories is via the following Google forms. In the future we may move this to a baserow form.

2. The main criteria for verification is to ensure the content is a genuine story (not spam), and that it is not discriminatory or offensive.

3. We have set up a baserow database to contain the final content which can be found here

4. This was delivered on 22nd November. A recording of which can be found here on YouTube

5. This was done in person at the Permaculture Educators gathering in London on 22nd September. We received very good feedback and ideas of how to improve the work. This is also where we finalised the criteria on how to verify data.

6. This was delivered in person on 23rd September at the permaculture festival in London. It was again very well received. This is where we decided to also accept audio and video recordings, which were not part of the original idea.

Rakesh has also delivered the content to several other permaculture practitioners including his students and other key people.

We are now ready to accept stories from anyone who has a good story to tell. So look forward to hearing from you

resources created

Stories to Decolonize Permaculture video

Submit your story

contact links

rakbsub@gmail.com

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Communicating Permaculture in Spanish

por charliewilson | May 30, 2023

Communicating Permaculture in Spanish

We feel that when trying to promote permaculture in the Spanish speaking world there are still several hurdles to overcome. One main hurdle seems to be a series of prejudices about permaculture, often confusing the term with an ecological gardening or cultivation technique. We have also personally experienced and received the feedback that the concept is either connected to something that is done only by people who have a lot of money (think big earthworks for example) or by people who use the idea of natural processes as an excuse for being lazy (and want everything for free).

In this context we feel there is a clear need and opportunity in the Spanish speaking world to communicate the basic ideas of permaculture more explicitly and in detail, including all the ethical and other principles as well as all the permaculture flower petals or RetroSuburbia’s 3 B’s (Built Biological and Behavioural) and show its value by doing so. At the same time we feel this could be creating a ground to give impulse to a variety of permaculture projects throughout the Spanish speaking permaculture community, in all its social, economical and cultural contexts.

The idea is to create a meetingplace for Spanish speaking permaculture practictioners and/or interessees, where material optimized for different social networks could be co-created. These resources would be a toolkit for anyone that wants to promote permaculture in Spanish. This facilitated meetingplace and participatory process would give space to different voices and perspectives of permaculture, trying to reflect its diversity but also offer criteria of maintaining quality and some unifying guidelines. Ideally, the basic material resulting from this process would be available for free online through the CoLab website, open to be built on at a future stage.

Click here to see this page in Spanish.

Funded with 2326.67 GBP through emergent festival

STATUS : complete

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Team

Jorge Barbosa, Aline VaMo, Camille Burkhard, Laura Annastazia Rudin

Reporting Officer: Jorge Barbosa

Previously: Auba Riera

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Area

Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent festival, Next Steps project

Objectives 2023

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.

OUTCOMEs 2023

First Design Process CEAP (for collaboration between group members): https://cloud.perma.earth/s/AfmdoBSLyYxB28n
Form to send to people/projects made on Baserow: Recogida de proyectos de permacultura // Baserow
Design Kathy ‘recopilando datos “communicate PC in Spanish”’ using the Design Web: Recogida datos communicate pc in Spanish • Red de diseño / Untitled view • Kumu
Database of Spanish speaking PC projects or websites that talk about PC: https://cloud.perma.earth/s/jHif3pR6xXJHL7k
Baserow results of people/projects that responded to our mail and filled out the form here
Infographics of data harvested here
Final email to be sent out by the end of October, sending these results to the Spanish speaking PC community, and inviting them into the CoLab again, to see if we can go for another Year of the Emergent Festival next year and collaborate

Objectives 2024

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.

outcomes 2024

What has been achieved in Y2?
We believe to have covered the goals for Y2, since:
1. We have formed, designed and developed the Work Group (ourselves: Aline, Auba and Jorge), created the template for the infographics and designed the Parcipatory Process for Y3 (between ourselves and the people we are contacting with).
2. We have started to take the needed actions to implement this design, improving our design skills in the process.
3. in this process we are already connecting with the Spanish speaking permaculture community and at the same time promoting work and projects within CoLab.

What has been done concretely?
– Agreeing on a Communication Strategy: how to develop a simple infographic template, where each collaborating project can present themselves, connecting their activities with (at least) on the the petals from David Holmgren’s “Permaculture Flower”, in order to be able to present (Spanish speaking) permaculture projects and at the same time Permaculture itself as a systemic and holistic design method (Aline + Auba + Jorge).
– Developing a participatory desing on miro (using design web) and harvesting ideas and actions from it (Aline + Auba + Jorge).
– Updating website in Spanish (Aline).
– Updating contacts’ database in Nextcloud, marking who has answered in Y1 and adding new contacts (Jorge).
– Creating a graphic template for the infographics and improving it (Auba).
– Updating the texts for the emails, sending emails to people who have previously answered (in Y1) and to new contacts. (Auba + Aline).
– Sorting out the answered emails and gathering the group of interested people/projects in collaborating in Y3, the next phase of this project – a “Comm-PC-Span Festival” within Emergent Festival, where people can present their own PC projects in Spanish, through the infographics and using the framework we have developed (Alina + Auba).
– Share information about this project in Spanish speaking permaculture related social networks (Auba).
– Preparing Reports and attending Emergent Festival events (Jorge)

Objectives 2025

Following what we have done in Y2 of this project (Emergent Festival 2024), this year we aim to finalize the harvesting of feedbacks and engaging with the permaculture projects and people we have contacted previously in order to have them on board for Y3 of Comm-PC-Span (Emergent Festival 2025).
These people will present their projects and co-create with us a set of Permaculture Infographics in Spanish, this will become a sort of a Comm-PC-Span Festival within the Emergent Festival.
We will continue promoting this project (and permaculture in Spanish) on social networks.
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.
As a direct consequence of this project and of integrating new team members, we are reinforcing the Spanish speaking Permaculture movement and increasing the visibility of the Permaculture CoLab.

OUTCOMES 2025

We are very pleased with the final result of our work as a team and we hope you enjoy it too! We were able to put out a set of infographics that showcase several permaculture projects from the international Spanish speaking community, highlighting the holistic aspect of permaculture. Our aim is to share this work with the social networks and let it’s ripple effects emerge.

This team has changed over the three years, but we’ve managed to stay focused on our goals and integrate the new creative ideas and skills of our new members. The workflow has been pleasant, we’ve had good time management and effective communication, having worked mostly asynchronously, which was sometimes challenging. We felt we could have had a few meetings or co-working time to have more efficiency in the design and layout of the infographics.

We feel enriched by this collaborative design experience and we deeply hope that the impact this project can have on the people involved and on all who will see it can be useful and inspiring.

resources created

Year 1:

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

Infographics of data harvested

Year 2:

Workflow process

https://perma.earth/project/comunicar-la-permacultura-en-espanol/

Year 3:

Infographics of Projects

contact links

Jorge Barbosa email: jorge.permacultura@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-barbosa-161937b1

Camille Burkhard email: camille@permadventures.com

web: Insta: @permadventures

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Designing Work Spaces For All

por charliewilson | May 30, 2023

Designing Work Spaces For All

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.

Funded with 682.15 GBP through emergent festival

Funded with 371.85 GBP through diversity stipend

STATUS : Completed

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Team

Charlie Wilson, Daniel Attwell

Reporting Officer: Charlie Wilson

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Area

Training and eLearning, Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent festival, Next Steps project

objectives

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.

OUTCOMEs

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.

resources created

Designing Work Spaces For All online course

contact links

learn@perma.earth

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