Learning to see Anew

An international qualification and universal tool for the co-creation of resilient communities by Regenerative Design...this time we are doing it in the desert...in both English & Spanish.

29 Octubre - 10 Noviembre 2011

Grifen Hope, Javiera Carrion & the team from El Manzano co-facilitate this transformative journey with Macarena Suarez and the permaculture community in...

San Pedro Atacama

Experience real world learning, as part of a transdisciplinary global network working for eco-social regeneration.

Price from $ClP 354.000 - $565.000 (Chilean Pesos). Sliding Scale based on your income and ability to pay. Price includes all food and accomodation.

To speak directly with the team please contact Carolina Heidke or

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Encontrar el equilibrio entre la creatividad de la emergencia y la estabilidad de Diseño

Aquí están algunas notas de Fritjof Capra en el Centro de Ecoliteracy sitio que vale la pena compartir. Tiene una lectura y me dejó saber lo que piensas.

Design for Resilient Human Settlements

This is the second story from the learning process in Millenrama. You can read the first here.

The week 5-9th of May 2010 team El Manzano was hosted in Millenrama, Mantagua, 5th region to run an Applied Permaculture Design course.
As El Manzano tests ideas for assisting people and communities to engage in transition and design for resilient human settlements, the team develops competency in the delivery of catalytic learning events, in facilitation and leadership by design. As the experience is reviewed once again it is confirmed that there is no power equal to a community deciding what it will become.

Those who are willing must choose transition now (Español)

Liora and Andy will make a live appearance to El Manzano via skype conference. Students of the Permaculture Design Course will have the opportunity to think and listen together with two of the plantes finest ecosocial regenerationists, and to explore the role of higher education and action learning in mobilising our people to engage in action for sustainability.

Getting Started in Permaculture (Español)

As we develop the Chilean branch of the Permaculture Research Institute, assiting people and communities to self organise for sustainability, we find ourselves working more and more in intensive design conversations. We are learning clearly that dreaming together is the first step, that by standing beside colleagues in conspiracy to design, we make sense together. Our consciousness is raised, and we can move on with a higher level of intention. What follows is a story from Enrique, participant in the a new community project Milenrama in the 5th region of Chile.

This is a draft! Design Consultancy Services

A great Permaculture property plan can save you years of effort and thousands
of dollars you otherwise may have wasted on poorly conceived “improvements”. Our design services will help you make the most of your site and get you working in the right direction from the beginning. Start now by filling in the client forms here.

What’s Included

1. Property Visit (1-2 days)

If you can provide us with adequate maps (contour, soils, cadastral), the “visit” can be
also be performed remotely. The outcomes of this Stage Include;

(a) Initial Consultation - client survey 

This means defininging the overall project and getting very clear about our role and yours.

• Goals for the property.
• Available resources.
• The project timeline.

(b) Property Assessment - site survey

This includes a basic assessment of the opportunities and limitations of your site including; 

Ciencia de Diseño Ecológico (English)

Por Joanne Tippett. El objetivo de este trabajo es una integración inter-disciplinario de ideas especialmente relevantes para el diseño de permacultura y la estructura física de los asentamientos humanos.

COMUNIDADES, EDIFICIOS, CONSTRUCCIÓN

Resumen de un libro de Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, con Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King y Shlomo Angel. Publicado por Oxford University Press.

El libro original contiene muchos detalles esenciales detrás de cada uno de los siguientes patrones y se recomienda la lectura.

It has been said that we are the most useless generation that ever walked the earth (Hopkins, 2008). Our cosy western lifestyles have led us to reliance on the supermarket, and food transported thousands of kilometres around the planet. As we have chased economic growth at all costs, we have rejected a lifestyle where we had to take care of our own needs, and many of the basic skills that go along with resilient simple living. We forgot once common knowledge, common sense, like how to cook and preserve, to grow our own food, build our own homes, how to fix things when they break, how to live in community.