[Pil-pc-oceania] PC Organisation:- A Pattern to mimic/Design Methodology required

[Laurence Gaffney]

Why is it that a movement that is based on the art and science of design is having difficulty it seems in successfully designing its own structures/organizations?
 
I think that the main reason is that there is as yet no appropriate methodology in the Permaculture Tool Kit for designing such.    Does an appropriate methodology pre-exist?   I think that we need to scour the world to see whats available and if possible pinch & adapt an existing process to our situation.
Such a process would need to reflect "Permaculture Principles" and in particular it should probably be clearly mimicking a relevant pattern of organisation found in nature.
If a process and/or pattern can be found and successfully demonstrated it would add a powerful string to the Permaculture Bow.

Too Hard?        Perhaps

Thanks to Jedd for pointing out the Debian Organisational Structure for formal decision making. I liked the emphasis towards the people actually doing the work making the decisions and the clear directive that leaders should not be pushing there own barrows.
  
Some further links to stuff I am currently trying to get my head around:-
Viable System Model
http://www.esrad.org.uk/resources/vsmg_3/screen.php?page=1qguide

Open Organisations
http://www.open-organizations.org/

Chaordic Design Process
http://www.chaordic.org/cd_process_activities.html

Complexity Paradigm Perspective
http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/mcn/pdf_files/part5_5.pdf
 

I was asked the question at APC9 recently:-    Has Permaculture Design reached its limits?  (A discussion on it's own)

I don't think so.

Laurence Gaffney 
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