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Permaculture Design Course
 
- Designing Sustainable Settlements -
July 4th - 17th, 2010 * Ecovillage of Sieben Linden, Germany
 A fully featured Permaculture Design Coursemeeting international standards and with possibility of full funding! 
What is a „Permaculture Design Course“?
 A Permaculture Design Course offers a broad overview of topicsrelated to the creation of sustainable environments and lifestyles. Inaddition to this general introduction to Permaculture, participantswill get acquainted with a wide range of methods and techniques towork with.This course focuses on the design of sustainable settlements andincludes information and practice about how to (re)model existingand newly set up human settlements in a way that they are usingless energy and other inputs and produce less waste while offering agreater quality of life to its inhabitants and increasing biodiversity inits surroundings. The venue, the Ecovillage of Sieben Linden, is aninternationally recognised intentional community and centre foradult education and will serve as a living example and field of practice.
this course
Specific objectives: 
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acquiring methods and techniques for sustainable design
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learning about best practice of appropriate technology, e.g. greenbuilding; water purification; solartechnology
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acquiring practical skills and knowledgein group work on small projects
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improving and practicing group skills ina multicultural environment
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exchanging experiences betweenparticipants from different Europeancountries
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embracing European diversity 
 
 
Methodology: 
The course is designed so that all spheres of human beings are satisfied: the mind, the body and the soul.Thus there will be a great diversity of methods, for theoretical inputs as well as for practical work, and formingof a group.Methods and techniques of the
theoretical part
includes: power point presentations, movies, lectures, smallgroup discussions, action learning processes, self-exploration, scripts, guided tours, and more.The
practical
consists of both individual and groupwork on one or several design tasks, whereparticipants practice the various methods that aretaught in the theory-sessions. Practical work is alsooffered as hands-on-experience, where participantsimplement little projects (like building a compostingtoilet or setting up a sheet-mulch-bed).The
formation of a group
is supported by a numberof methods that have been tried in social settings, forexample dialogues and forum.Methods of 
participatory processes
(e.g. OpenSpace) are part of this training as well. Participationhelps projects to be successful and sustainable due tothe recognition and possible inclusion of as many needs of people as possible.The course also includes gaining insights into the overall design and appropriate technologies as well as theorganisational structure and educational activities of the hosting Ecovillage of Sieben Linden.
Course content: 
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Introduction to permaculture: Ethics and philosophy, permaculture principles; Patterns, energies,systems in permaculture
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Introduction to planning concepts; Methods for observation and analysis: Basemap, Sectoring, Input-Output-analysis
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Planning methods: Data Overlay,Zoning,...
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Ecosystem criteria and basic terms of ecology; Trees and other plants; Soiland climate; Water
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Permaculture aspects in the Ecovillageof Sieben Linden
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 Architecture; Ecological infrastructure;Planning an ecological settlement
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Social permaculture
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Economy and organisational design
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Designwork in groups
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Presentation of designs
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Next steps The training will enable participants to work with permaculture and to integrate it into their projects.The international standards of 72-hour-courses and of the European Permaculture WorkNet are met.
 
background information
Permaculture: 
The founders of Permaculture were searching for answers to the pressing issues of our time. They looked atnatural ecosystems to find out how self-sustaining systems work and how the underlying principles could beused in agricultural systems and in various other areas of life. A clear ethics, “Earth care, People care, Fairshares”, is the basis of this sustainable concept which empowers people to take responsibility for their livesand their environment and to take care of both in a life-sustaining way. 
The German Permaculture Academy: 
This course is offered by the German Permaculture Academy,which is the German platform for permaculture issues, networkingand training. It offers a professional vocational training to becomea Permaculture Designer, for which this course is the foundation.More than 15 teachers are working in different places all overGermany to provide education and information about permaculture.www.permakultur-akademie.net
The Ecovillage of Sieben Linden: 
The Ecovillage of Sieben Linden aims toprovide a model for a future way of life, wherework and leisure, individuality and communitycome together. Small closed cycles make itpossible to live a holistic and ecological life inbalance with economic needs. As a seminarcentre we welcome people from all over theworld, hoping that they become inspired by theecovillage lifestyle. The village with 120inhabitants (including 35 children) lies inSaxony-Anhalt (50km north-east of Wolfsburg),Germany. www.siebenlinden.de 
The teachers: 
Diversity is important to us – applying this permaculture principle in the composition of our team. We decidedon several teachers and facilitators to take over different parts of the course content. Here is a littleintroduction to some of us: 
Sandra Campe 
Sandra Campe has been living in the Ecovillage of Sieben Linden for more than sixyears. Before this, she studied organic agriculture at the oldest faculty for organicfarming in Germany. During her studies, she worked for an agriculture withoutgenetic engineering as well as towards a nuclear free future. Permaculture hasaccompanied her throughout these years as a focus and an aim.In Sieben Linden her focus shifted over the years - from practical gardening tosettlement design and participatory processes, for the development of the settlementas well as with young volunteers. With a friend, she started a social structure for
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