There are 5 criteria, listed in pink below, that I this portfolio has to meet in order for me to accredit. I have listed the criteria, one by one, then provided links to designs or pages where I believe my portfolio meets them. At the very bottom of this page is a matrix that I have used to double check I have included most of the elements for a well-rounded portfolio. (Matrix given to me after Interim Assesment June 2013).
1. You have completed a permaculture design course, and are a
current member of the Permaculture Association;
see PDC certificate right.
current member of the Permaculture Association;
see PDC certificate right.
2. You have actively applied permaculture over a period of at least two years since your permaculture design course (PDC).
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I fulfil this requirement in following pages: Review of relevant activities
and all 10 designs and Applying Permaculture - Garden in Brockley and Applying Permaculture - garden in Catford and Chronology and Designer's CV and Ruth R's Diploma 2. Why I am doing the Diploma |
The broad categories from Permaculture Research Institute that I can link in with are:
• Community Development
By coordinating and starting St Saviour's Edible garden I feel I have developed some community around the garden.
People attend sessions regularly and new people are drawn in by the free workshops when I can get funding. Others interact with the garden and us as interested passers by and recently Guide leader Audrey has accepted one of the beds for Brownies and Guides to experiment with.
• Education
Permaculture for Kids
These workshops included an element of 'seeing with new eyes' using permauculture principles and ethics implicitly (and hopefully impacted on the parents and carers too.)
Taster workshops and Introduction to Permaculture Courses
see Designer's CV page
• Personal development, and the ‘inner transition’
The inner transistion has been one of the main focus(es) of my portfolio, this is demonstrated by designs on Everyday MIndfulness , the Mystery of Time, Working in the Gift and by my Reading list as well as pages Ruth R's Diploma and Review of Relevant Activities
• Community Development
By coordinating and starting St Saviour's Edible garden I feel I have developed some community around the garden.
People attend sessions regularly and new people are drawn in by the free workshops when I can get funding. Others interact with the garden and us as interested passers by and recently Guide leader Audrey has accepted one of the beds for Brownies and Guides to experiment with.
• Education
Permaculture for Kids
These workshops included an element of 'seeing with new eyes' using permauculture principles and ethics implicitly (and hopefully impacted on the parents and carers too.)
Taster workshops and Introduction to Permaculture Courses
see Designer's CV page
• Personal development, and the ‘inner transition’
The inner transistion has been one of the main focus(es) of my portfolio, this is demonstrated by designs on Everyday MIndfulness , the Mystery of Time, Working in the Gift and by my Reading list as well as pages Ruth R's Diploma and Review of Relevant Activities
- Site Development
3. Demonstrating design skills. You have produced ten permaculture designs to the required standard.
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For a brief description of my 10 designs see porfolio page 'my ten designs'.
Intentional design processes: Frameworks used: SADIM, Everyday Mindfulness OBREDIM, PLot 60a Looby's Web, Permaculture for Kids my own made up ones J's bird garden, Mystery of Time Designs that include land and social elements: St Saviour's Edible Garden, Lamas Backyard, Permaculture for Kids Intelligible, coherent and effective designs: all ten designs Appropriate presentation and documentation for clients and 3rd Parties; St Saviour's edible garden, Lamas Backyard, J's bird garden Show fluency with design processes and tools: all 10 designs Ethics and Principles (Mollison and Holmgrem): All ten designs |
Processes and tools to suit clients and situation: (see chart below for tick box format)
base maps Plot 60a, St Saviour's Edible Garden overlays Plot 60a, St Saviou'rs Edible garden shadow mapping St Saviour's edible garden (? zones Working in the gift Mystery of Time sectors Mystery of time, client interview J's bird garden, St Saviour's Edible Garden Microclimates St Saviour's Edible Garden soil analysis The Earth Element J's bird garden input/output analysis Working in the Gift Brainstorm/mind maps, Everyday Mindfulness Flow diagram Working in the gift (?) PMI Everyday Mindfulness SWOC Plot 60a Planning for Real J's bird garden? Wild design Random Assembly Lamas Backyard Mc Harg's Exclusion Lamas Backyard Web of Connections J's bird garden Incremental design J's bird garden Stacking Lamas backyard PASE St Saviour's Edible Garden (?) |
4. Applying Permaculture in your own life ' the process of using permaculture ethics, principles and design strategies to enchance the sustainability of your own life and household'. Show how changes you have made bring you closer to a sustainable lifestyle in line with permaculture's ethical framework. |
For evidence of this see: Working in the Gift An experiment in Fairshares Ruth R's Diploma 1. What's important to me and 2. Why I am doing the Diploma Review of Relevant activities 2. How has the Diploma changed my life? |
5. Developing your permaculture practice.
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Each design has a section for reflection on my permaculture practice as well as a more objective evaluation. All 10 Designs.
I have also reflected on my permaculture practice in Review of Relevant activities especialliy in Section 3. What lessons have there been? (a piece of reflective writing). I have made use of Action Learning Journals to reflect on progress and evaluate designs as I go (see Action Learning Journals). |
For a different format of how I meet the criteria see matrix below (given to me after Interim Assessment as guide)