Design 4 A.C.T.I.O.N.

Design 4 A.C.T.I.O.N (Active Community Transformation In Our Neighbourhoods) - A different kind of permaculture course - positive design for your life, your community and your world!

The Design 4 A.C.T.I.O.N course is participatory and dynamic, using diverse visual, audio and kinesthetic learning methods such as group work, games, problem solving, discussion, observation, field trips, practical activities, lectures and slideshows during course sessions. 

Participants are encouraged to further their learning through home study during the breaks between modules, which can include further research, personal reflection, and application of what’s being learned in practice. Participants will also work together on applied design projects relevant to their own situation that will consolidate the learning content and empower students to take solutions-based thinking back into their own homes, gardens, lives & communities, providing essential skills for effecting positive change whatever their concerns. 

In addition to 6 core weekends that will cover permaculture fundamentals, design methods and applications to the natural world and built/human environment there will be additional optional days on forest gardening, holistic health, green building, community development and more.

The course will be taught by Graham Burnett (Dip. Perm Des), Claire White (Dip. Perm Des), James Taylor (MSc. Human Ecology) and some great guest teachers. 

The 6 core weekends will take place between September 2015 and February 2016 on these days:

Sep 26/27

Oct 10/11

Nov 7/8

Dec 12/13

Jan 8/10

Feb 13/14

We are pleased to announce that we are holding our course fees for another year:

£380 - Individual, concessionary rate (unwaged)

£580 - Individual, waged (income less than £25k)

£780 - Individual, waged (income more than £25k)

£780 - Sponsored/organisation rate

The booking form for the course is now live and we are accepting participants.

[In Spring 2016 we will again be running the Spring into Action! Permaculture Design Course - 6 weekends fortnightly March-May contact James if you would like to know when booking for this course opens)

Permaculture Design Courses: Autumn/Winter 2015/16 and Spring 2016

The Spring into Action! 2015 Permaculture Design Course came to a celebratory close yesterday with three great design presentations from the students.

The Spring into Action! teaching team is dissolving for the Summer, but we will be coming together again:

•  in the Autumn for a new format Permaculture Design Course: Design 4 A.C.T.I.O.N! (1 weekend a month over 6 months - September 2015-February 2016 - with optional add-on Practical Workshops in Green Building, Holistic Health and Forest Gardening)
• and again next year for Spring into ACTION! 2016 (6 weekends fortnightly March-May 2016)

Further details and how to book will be posted here shortly!

[If you can't wait that long, check out Graham Burnett's Summer courses at Spiralseed.]

2015 Permaculture Design Course

The Autumn 'Fall Forward' London Permaculture Design Course is about to begin, but we've already begun planning the 2015 Spring into Action! course based in glorious East London.

Contact Claire White to ensure you're the first to know when booking goes live and for any queries.

Over six weekends between March and May 2015 we will be introducing the application of permaculture tools and solutions, taking in ethics, principles, design methods and techniques. To get a flavour check out these photographs from the course we ran earlier in the year.

In 2014 we were based at Spitalfields City Farm, an agricultural site in the heart of the City of London's financial district and visited Queen's Wood, the Meadow Orchard Project and Mudchute City Farm.