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

Wilderness regeneration

project

1987

note limits of available technologies...

Wilderness regeneration project 1990

Wilderness regeneration project 1993

daily diaries

Weather icons for use in a daily diary

journal

Recording random observations

inspired by Bill Mollison

a bilingual handout

Recording annual observations

Old photographs or, as here, postcards,

provide us with snapshots in time

and hence offer us useful clues

1986 Snowdonia National Park spy plane

2006 Google spy satellite

existing recordings

Regular use of a base map to record activities

It doesn’t have to be big and impressive to be useful

postcard design for productive field boundaries/divisions

Designs do not have to be complicated

Meeting designs

developed with the Mawddach Permaculture Group

The meeting design embedded in the design for a day of activities

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

Further details relating to this presentation can

be found on my website www.konsk.co.uk

Chris Dixon and Tir Penrhos Isaf