BO4139 Permaculture in a Global Context
This course explores social permaculture and the invisible structures that either support or degrade human settlements. This course helps students understand ways in which permaculture principles and ethics can be utilized to cultivate sustainable communities and cooperative economies. Students explore design models and strategies for developing broad-scale urban and village systems, ways to retrofit existing urban environments, and design strategies for circumventing natural disasters. Students discuss the dynamics of cultivating community—including consensus building, community wellness, food security, grafting community knowledge and resources, community-scale industry, cooperative legal systems for businesses and communities, as well as land access strategies, land restoration, and earthworks.
Prerequisite
BO4133 and admission into holistic landscape design program.