Posted on 2025-06-14 19:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design
I was voted into the board of an allotment association in 2019. In response, I created this design draft to help me get a feel for the challenges facing the allotment association at that time.
I abandoned this design when I ended my involvement with the association in 2025 …
Posted on 2024-05-28 15:44:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, design web, facilitation, dreaming circle, vision, brainstorm, mind map
I recently felt a longing to do a design based on the Design Web of Looby Macnamara. An opportunity presented itself as I came into contact with Marieke, a woman who was looking for a way to reboot her business. I proposed to facilitate a design with her.
Posted on 2021-07-20 16:12:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, life design, social design, design web, facilitation, zettelkasten, dreaming circle, vision, brainstorm, mind map, mental inventory, bullet journaling, year compass, burn rate, 4 questions, Holmgren principles, functions and elements
After the recent completion of his courses in alternative forms of health care, a close friend intends to set up a business offering these types of therapy for clients. I offered my help in creating a design for his practice. I have run my own business for over ten …
Posted on 2021-04-19 14:02:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, workshop, survey
I have grouped this information by theme. The subsections detail possible subjects within this theme.
Depending on the subject, these can be taught in workshops and courses ranging from 2 hours to 2x 8 hours.
An appropriate selection of all these workshops can make up a full Permaculture Design Course …
Posted on 2019-01-14 22:00:00+01:00 in designs • Modified on 2025-09-08 16:13:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, appropriate technology, CEAP, zones and sectors, ethics, attitudinal principles, haybox
This is a small design I did to show the different options available for making a haybox at home.
Another, more recent article documents our current (2025) use of the haybox.
In our household we try to reduce our need for fossil fuels. One way is to prevent cooling …
Posted on 2019-01-07 22:00:00+01:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-04-15 14:06:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, zones and sectors, planning for real, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, hugelculture, compost
Overview map (courtesy of OpenStreetMap) © OpenStreetMap-auteurs. The red area shows where the food forest is located within the grounds of the Weverkeshof.
The Weverkeshof is a city farm in Nuenen. They would like to convert a (small) part of their grounds into a food forest. This page details how …
Posted on 2018-12-27 17:04:00+01:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, SADIMet, 9 ways of observing, ethics, Holmgren principles
Ilona and Stefan want to limit the view from the neighbors. They would like a nice environment to look out onto from their living room.
The design was done by:
Posted on 2018-09-28 20:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, building design, SADIMet, kanban, client interview, 9 ways of observing, ethics, dreaming circle, mind map, mapping, zones and sectors, SWOC, PMI, attitudinal principles, planning for real, input output analysis
Map created from satellite image, openstreetmap and provided sketch. Download and open the file in a vector editor like Inkscape to see and play with the different layers.
This work is the result of a PDC held in Gunsleben, Germany. The first week was …
Posted on 2018-09-25 22:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-08-28 20:17:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, general design, CEAP, 9 ways of observing, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles
I currently work for a few customers as a programmer and for a few others as a systems administrator for their Linux systems.
Current situation (2018) is a physical servers at two different locations. One is in a local data center with a optic fiber connection and one is …
Posted on 2018-08-11 15:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2024-12-31 21:35:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven
We had the allotment between September 2018 and December 2024.
We used CEAP for this design.
Note: this design was never quite finished. We have started putting elements into action before having a complete design …