Chris Dixon
Diploma in Permaculture Design Pathway and accreditation
my pathway
my probation
recordings
designs
dissemination
evaluation
My diploma pathway
• 1989 travel to introductory course in Llanberis• 1990 convene introductory course locally• 1991 convene full design course locally• 1991-1993 two year probationary period• 1993 convene accreditation event locally
Activities undertaken during my probation
this A3 graphic was part of the preparation for my
accreditation in 1993
note the limitations of available technologies...
individual
environment
community
An integral map (the “big three” perspectives)
•Wilderness regeneration, management and application
•trials of specific techniques
•productive barriers/divisions
•building design (low impact)
•ffos dyfri
Site Designs
•Tir Penrhos Isaf
•Blaen Lliw Isaf
•Maes Fynnon
•Siop Gwilym
•Hen Parcau
•Local group
•tree cycle
•meeting patterns
•Rio response
•PC Association design
•patterning in zone 00
•designing for zone 00
•general theory of zone 00!
making recordings
•To collect data to further our knowledge and understanding of specific systems•to enable us to more easily disseminate information•to build up a portfolio of our work•to support our accreditation
Old photographs or, as here, postcards,
provide us with snapshots in time
and hence offer us useful clues
It doesn’t have to be big and impressive to be useful
postcard design for productive field boundaries/divisions
Dissemination and symmetry
•Planning permission applications- photocopied, floppy disk, email, website
I now use my own website konsk.co.uk to host my work, and from there it gets passed on to various other media such as the fascine causeway design appearing in the Permaculture Activist
•Presenting at regional and national events (such as this one)
•courses and guided tours at Penrhos (note the English LAND project)
•copies of wilderness regeneration slides given to Andy Langford
•Wilderness regeneration and meeting patterns- Permaculture Magazine
Bloom’s taxonomy of the cognitive domain
levels of learning
•evaluation
•synthesis
•analysis
•application
•knowledge
•comprehension