Communication Guild

by | Jun 28, 2022

Communication Guild

The focus of this work will be to develop a Communications Strategy for the CoLab, embodying it by doing work to satisfy some of the immediate communications needs of various parts of the CoLab. By collecting information from reports, and interactions with people and groups, they will observe and interact with the existing communications patterns in the CoLab. Out of that process, the Guild will develop a communication and engagement strategy based on Permaculture and Regenerative principles, one that honors and aims to accelerate the succession of the Vision, Mission and Aims (VMAs) of CoLab and its members.

Funded with 5160 GBP through capacity+

Status : completed

Team

Jillian Hovey, Lauren Minis, Luis Tiago

Area

Diversity, Participation & Engagement, Capacity+ project

Objectives

Inspire a culture, practices, and guidelines that we weave into the CoLab through various forms of engagement focused on bringing the communications work alive in the CoLab.

DESIRED OUTCOME

– Co-designing engagement and communications strategies for permaculture networks.
– Designing transparent ways for “external” individuals to get involved with ongoing CoLab processes and Capacity+ work (this will be supported by others in its implementation).
– Promoting the micro-enterprises being incubated in CoLab and advertising their services (being responsive to each one’s needs and designing for synergies).
– Development of Communications Micro-enterprises for financial sustainability of communications domain within CoLab.

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Funding Circle incubation

by | Jun 28, 2022

Funding Circle incubation

People from the international permaculture community, who have some
background in funding, are being strategically invited to co-create
the Funding Circle and its VMAs. Materials developed for this
outreach will be coordinated with the Welcoming and Communications
functions of the CoLab, with a view to also support those invited to
explore joining the CoLab. A funding database of funding
opportunities and funding clients will be set up, and a first funding
application supported. The intention is to become a self-sustaining
Funding Circle supporting the ongoing work in this domain, which will
benefit the Permaculture CoLab and its members.

Funded with 2116 GBP through capacity+

Status : completed

Team

Aimee Fenech, Jillian Hovey, Lauren Minis

Area

Circle incubation and nourishment, Capacity+ project

Objectives

Facilitate the co-creation of a prototype Funding Circle with its Vision, Mission, and Aims (VMAs) collaboratively shaped, where the Circle is activated to further its own development with a view to becoming self-sustaining

DESIRED OUTCOME

– Set up a funding page on the perma.earth website where funding opportunities are made public, include profiles of freelancers and consultants in the funding field
– Set up a repository of funding applications (both successful and otherwise) on the pccolab nextcloud instance which funding writers / colab members can consult with submissions from colab members and beyond
– Develop a microenterprise framework to support funding applicants to look for and apply for funds, where potential freelance fundraisers have been identified, paired, and invited to explore fundraising for the CoLab and its members

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Translation Circle Incubation

by | Jun 28, 2022

Translation Circle Incubation

The Translation Circle is a group of multicultural and multilingual individuals with a sensitivity for Permaculture Concepts across frontiers. More than just technical translation, our group offers bridges, allowing more dynamic exchanges to happen between local, regional and international permaculture groups and individuals within the PC Colab as to its external collaborators and followers.

The translation circle service is a prototype of a regenerative enterprise model that offers translation services to collectives of people and individuals across the planet who are looking for a technically knowledgeable and culturally sensitive translation service of material that is directed towards Design for Sustainability.

We feel this ecological niche allows us to help accelerate succession to a truly sustainable future whilst generating right livelihoods in the socio-economic environment.

Funded with 2500 GBP through capacity+

Status : Complete

Team

Aline VaMo, Claudia Dörr, Luiza Oliveira, Mayi Lekuona, Meiling Colorado

Area

Circle incubation and nourishment, Capacity+ project

Objectives

– Translation of the PC CoLab’s core documents, maintaining a style and sense of written coherence.
– A personal bridge to a larger and more diverse network of permaculture practitioners, mediating between cultures by showing understanding of the cultural backgrounds and adapting the information from one emissor to the final recipient.
– Translation service ad hoc (written and spoken – as interpreters) available to partners of the CoLab as well as external PC practitioners and anyone working in the Sustainability and Regenerative Design field.
– Create a glossary of words and terminologies that are being used by the CoLab community at present and might be used for future projects in order to make this vocabulary (possibly rather “academic” or “business-like” for some) accessible to all.
– Implementing research on specific terms and technicalities related to permaculture and the functioning of the CoLab, building on work of others already committed to this task and co-creating valuable resources across languages with them

OUTCOMEs

February 2023 Update

We have informed the #general-circle of our decision to dismantle our closed structure, after completing the 2-year process in which we committed to investigating a business model for a possible permaculture translation organization.

We tried on the NextCloud but preferred working on our Miro board and kept a record in a Google Drive, as even the Miro board felt not inclusive at times (loading capacity, device from which members were connecting, quick reference etc).

Please find here our reports of Year 1 (Nov/Dec 2020 & 2021) and Year 2 (2022)We have a #WLTT list (Would Love To Translate), which you might want to get your teeth stuck into in your free time, or find funding for.

So as of 2023, we are an “open” circle, with no formal pattern of meetings or projects on the go. Feel free to connect with Aline VaMo if you’d like to take an active role in changing that.

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Online Learning Platform and Educator Commons Collaboration

by | Jun 26, 2022

Online Learning Platform

Educator Commons Collaboration

The Educators Membership and Permaculture Association are co-developing an online learning platform and commons to enable the delivery of remote and blended permaculture and other modules and courses.

The online learning platform will be developed to a state where it is possible for CoLab and its allied networks to create their own online courses. This platform can be used later for upskilling and onboarding into CoLab itself for example.

Funded with 1680 GBP through capacity+

Status : completed

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Team

Ewan Findley

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Area

Training and eLearning, Capacity+ project

objectives

Use this learning to make a template for CoLab and it’s wider network to create courses and engage CoLab in the best use of resources to develop a course.
Promote the CoLab through the Online Learning project course and communications (MOG’s, educators slack, newsletters, commons meetings etc), so to engage more people with CoLab

DESIRED OUTCOME

Help them identify the best technologies and processes to support which will be the basis of our learning:
– The move to open source platform
– Align the tech with Open badges
– Blended Transformative learning
– Reach a wider audience
– Develop their current work on accessibility, inclusion and equity
– Reaching further with their international educators membership for the commons

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