[Pil-pc-oceania] Sustainable Settlements & Ecovillage Course

[Robyn Francis]

Some places still available...

Sustainable Settlements & Ecovillage Design
Sept 3-14, 2007  

At Djanbung Gardens Permaculture
Nimbin NSW

This course is for people involved or interested in planning, designing &
creating sustainable human settlements: ecovillages, intentional
communities, co-housing, ecological developments and revitalising existing
rural and urban communities.

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

Participants at past courses have included people looking to start a
community, eco-village developers, community workers, architects, planners,
landscape architects, engineers, environmental planners, permaculture
designers and teachers, community development facilitators and people
working in sustainable aid and development.
Course includes excursions to Jarlanbah, Currumbin Ecovillage and local
intentional communities

TUTORS: Robyn Francis & guests at leading edge of sustainable social and
ecovillage design
Cost: $890/$750  includes m/a teas, lunches and course materials
Accommodation: on-site camping available. Range of accommodation options
available in village, some within walking distance

Further details & registration
Email
robyn at permaculture.com.au
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