Creative solutions for sustainable community development through holistic planning and community cooperation based on permaculture and the principles of ecological and social sustainability. This course is will empower you with tools and skills to translate dreams into reality, identify pathways and develop strategies in partnership with people and nature to create vibrant communities in harmony with the earth.
Course topics include:
- Local to Global Perspectives on ESD, Footprints, responding to climate change, peak oil and globalisation
- Bioregional and social catchment planning, land ownership and settlement patterns
- Working with planning laws and legal frameworks
- Land tenure options, residents agreements, community management, governance & by-laws
- Social, legal, economic and ecological parameters in design
- Working with spirit of place and fostering sense of place
- Design for the full human life-cycle & diverse lifestyle needs
- Realistic approach to diverse settlement types & forms: Co-housing, expanded houses, hamlet, urban & rural village design, building new & retrofitting existing communities
- Innovative options for services & technologies: household to community scale
- Facilitating participatory community consultation, problem solving and participatory design
- Decision-making, conflict resolution & mediation