Proyecto de Pioneros Permaculturales

(this page is in english)

 

 

http://permacultureinstitute.pbwiki.com/PioneersPioneros

 

 

todavía no tengo esto en español ... pero abajo está la descripción del proyecto en Inglés.

 

He entrevistado 4 pioneros hasta la fecha (mayo 07) y espero hacer unas cuantas más entrevistas en IPC8.

 

Lanzando esto a la lista de permalearners en inglaterra, y al coordinador de IPC8,

me llegaron varios contactos interesantes:

 

Andy de Gaia University (hay varios estudiantes haciendo algo parecido)

y un proyecto de History of Permaculture de Steve Paine en Australia

 

 

Iré poniendo las entrevistas aquí y enlaces a otros proyectos aparecidos, y como pensamos diseñar las interconnexiones.

 

 

 

* * * WHAT

 

My vision is to do some catalyst community building work

by collecting, collating and distributing our history as a permaculture

movement, in the words of the people who founded it and set it in

motion: our permaculture pioneers.

 

* * * WHY

 

One of the things I find very interesting about

permaculture is it´s growth as a movement, as a world-wide community

and as a 'family' of sorts.

 

I believe its informality and ability to

thrive on personal-connections is a great strength, but one that we may

not be able to count on as it grows ever larger, without some

thoughtful interventions.

 

Indeed this very strenght might - at worst

- even turn into "cliqueness" and other destructive phenomena, or - at

best - simply cause new permaculturists to be deprived of knowledge of

their historical roots (which very important for any community).

 

A few years ago I set out to find out more about these roots, not just

for myself but in order to keep this story safe and trasmit it as

accurately as possible to future generations.

 

When the community was small it was possible to pass this story on by

word of mouth, as most people knew at least one or two of the pioneers

personally, or someone who knew them ... but increasingly this cannot

continue to be so, and so it is important to document this, I believe,

in order to foster a healthy growth, and especially in order to

understand, respect and honor the shoulders on which we stand as

permaculture designers.

 

This is not an attempt to sanctify our elders however, as of course

there are always new generations of permaculture pioneers also, so this

is ongoing work: if you want to help with this project you are very

welcome. The word 'pioneer' remains open to interpretation.

 

 

* * * HOW

 

by interviewing our pioneers, listen a lot, asking

questions to:

 

 

a) try to find out what may have helped become exceptional permaculture

designers (so we can try to incorporate this knowledge in generating

more future good designers. What makes a pioneer? Is it luck ... or

design?

 

 

b) and see what they consider the most important issues for

permaculture, both personally, collectively and for the future.

Harvesting their knowledge and experience as the most long-term or

far-seeing members of this community. Make sure we don´t go

re-inventing wheels, make good use of 'pioneer-vision' and their

longer-term thinking wealth.

 

 

* * * STEPS

 

 

a) set up interviews and ask the 10. questions below + whatever else

the pioneer wishes to say.

 

 

b) transcribe the interviews and send for checking, additions or edits

 

c) translate and publish as appropiate

 

 

d) ask for ideas about permaculture pioneers that people consider

important to interview and for places / methods that would most

usefully share these interviews widely through our community

 

(THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN! thanks for your help)

 

 

 

 

* * * INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

 

 

1. Please tell us something about your background, before you came

across permaculture.

 

 

2. What inspired you towards permaculture; how you felt when you did

your training; how did it fit in with existing

models/training/knowledge etc.

 

 

3. How did the permaculture course/ training help you, as a pioneer?

 

 

4. What do YOU consider your main achievements to date, as a

permaculture pioneer? (Would you say these differ from what others

think they are)?

 

 

5. What was hard in working towards these achievements? What resources

/ ideas / people supported you, moved you on when you got stuck?

 

 

6. What does it take to be a “pioneer species” in permaculture?

 

 

7. What are your plans now & for the future?

 

 

8. As permaculture designers, what do you think we are doing well,

what we could do better?

 

 

9. What is your vision is for the future of permaculture and the growth

of our community? How would you like it to be, for you?

 

 

10. What do you see as the next steps towards that vision? Where are

the critical issues, crucial leverage points, that you see? (The most

important ones)