Design 8: Making a Permaculture School as a caring Ecosystem of Teachers by Skye Jin

This design is using my own new design framework ZENIFY  and an experimental approach to using design frameworks as holistic tools in anchor points of another design framework. As a community needs based design, I want to design a Permaculture School as a caring ecosystem of teachers and regenerative business owners through co-operation & friendship with ecosystems thinking and support a culture of abundance. Rather than external ideals coming from rules and models,co-operation can come from deep, inner transformative work and community connection workshops. 

Learning Goals & Reflection on the design structure
This is a complex design because I want to illustrate and embody the complexities of many minds working together and as it is, the often complete concepts that everybody has, coming together in a shared direction. Therefore, I use multiple design frameworks as tools within the design to go through many ways of thinking: linear, circular, goal oriented, holistic, intuitive, reflective etc. So, this is an experiment where I want to learn about the relationships between many design frameworks, like the relationships between people! After each anchor point of ZENIFY, I include a reflection page in a darker shade, to step-by-step find the patterns in the process. I see this structure as the equivalent of a large land based design, for inner work. 

Link to Design

Start of Diploma: February 2020. Start of Design: April 2023. Finished and Implemented: August 2023
Client: Myself & the communities of permaculture teachers and associations worldwide
Ethics: Earth care, People care, Fair share.
Framework: ZENIFY, my own design framework
Cultural Emergence phases and principles
Tools: GoSADIMET Quick design (used as survey tool),  Design Web Quick design (used as YIN and NECESSARY anchor point tool), RE:member new tool, VISA tool, CEAP Quick design (used as IRRELEVANT anchor point), Roses/Thorns/Buds for workshop evaluations, bubble design,  maps, Google slides, pen and paper, Cultural Emergence Principles printed out for colouring.

Link to all my Diploma designs

Designer:

Skye Jin

Stage of design
implemented
Date of design