Hydrological landscape design
WATER IS LIFE The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the relationship between the availability of available resources and the number of living organisms that can take advantage of them. Although the evaluation of this “Carrying Capacity” is considered “multifactorial”, at the base of every food chain and of every resource availability is… Water. The […]
CDP #ONLINEKNOWLEDGE
Design for Resilience in your own Integral House This is a course to learn how to Design and Implement Regenerative Solutions for Future scenarios. We will lower the ecological footprint of our homes and increase the level of our personal and community resilience. We will reach out to you as you are introduced to Home […]
The 12 Points of Leverage
“Eureka!” “Give me a lever and I’ll move the world.” These two phrases must be the most trending topics in the history of physics and mathematics. Archimedes did not have Tik-Tok or Twitter or Instagram but still, or thanks to it, these phrases endure in the collective unconscious of the scientific community. Curiously, this mathematician […]
Design for me
Egocentric? Maybe it’s frowned upon. Designing for me, how bad it sounds. Shouldn’t we be designing for Life, for the Regeneration of Bioregions, for Community? And if we say “also”, it indicates our interdependence. It becomes visible that we are part of a larger system, and this in turn of several even larger fractals. We […]
Design Rationale
Oh, motivation, my motivation! Where are you? I can’t design without you! The design process involves both analyzing functions and elements to meet needs and drawing on creativity and inspiration. After all, it’s like a poem. You arrange words into a sentence (elements of the system), evoke images of the future (you work with beauty […]
Sectors in a Permaculture Design
When we begin designing our own permaculture system, it’s essential to “work with what’s there” and design for our well-being and resilience in connection with the place. To do this, we engage in deep observation of our immediate surroundings and document what we “see.” A design tool often used in permaculture is the SECTOR DIAGRAM, […]
Living the Questions
In June, we had the pleasure of taking part in an experience of interdependence and deep connection with people from 16 different countries. We came together for a training program funded by the European Union (Erasmus+) at an incredibly beautiful location, Sanillés in La Cerdanya, in the Catalan Pyrenees. Together, we were learning, sharing, and […]