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The course will offer an introduction to the permaculture design framework as a tool for designing sustainable solutions to contemporary challenges faced by business, communities and individuals' lifestyle.
Permaculture offers a systems thinking-based framework for designing regenerative ways of living that aim to maximize beneficial relationships by working with rather than against nature (broadly defined) to enhance resilience, diversity, productivity and stability. The permaculture framework is increasingly being applied worldwide to inspire more sustainable businesses, to improve biodiversity, energy efficiency and mental health, and to design livable, humane social systems, organizations and lifestyles. In a business context, the principles have been applied to support sustainable production, business development and circularity as well as better functioning organisations and leadership; in communities they have been used to enhance wellbeing and strengthen social networks as well as to inform innovative and equitable forms of social organization; and in lifestyles they have been used to inspire more humane and sustainable consumption.
Permaculture emphasizes personal responsibility, encouraging practitioners to think creatively about practical steps that can be taken in one's own context to mitigate contemporary global and local challenges.
The course will consist of three modules, each addressing ways in which permaculture is being used to rethink the three course areas: i) business ii) community iii) lifestyle. Critical perspectives on permaculture will also be addressed.
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