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Design allotment garden

Posted on 2018-08-11 15:00 in designs • Modified on 2024-12-31 21:35 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven

We had the allotment between September 2018 and December 2024.

Design strategy

We used CEAP for this design.

Collect information
Evaluate the information
Apply Permaculture Ethics and Principles
Plan for Action

Note: this design was never quite finished. We have started putting elements into action before having a complete design …

Project Gunsleben - General design - Planning phase

Posted on 2018-07-13 17:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-07-24 13:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, dragon dreaming, dragon dreaming planning, Gunsleben, ethics, Holmgren principles, 6 ways to die, dragon dreaming celebrating, abandoned design

This is the place where we analyze and consider alternatives. See the design overview for the big picture.

Note: this design has been abandoned.

Consideration of Alternatives

Ethics

Earth care
- Reduce
  - create small living spaces, easily heated
  - use solar energy where possible
  - limited use of power tools, tractors and other …

Project Gunsleben - General Design - Overview

Posted on 2018-07-10 17:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, general design, dragon dreaming, SpEmBoM, SADIMet, dreaming circle, dragon dreaming dreaming, dragon dreaming planning, dragon dreaming doing, dragon dreaming celebrating, Karabirrdt, abandoned design

This work is the result of a PDC held in Gunsleben, Germany. The first week was from June 30th 2018 to July 7th 2018. The second week was from September 16th 2018 to September 23th 2018. At the end of the first week the participants divided into three design teams …

Design Online Learning Community

Posted on 2018-06-26 09:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-12-28 18:37 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, dragon dreaming, 5 W’s, 9 ways of observing, Open Spaces, DAFOR(N)

Background

Learning community mailing list:

Design team:

Arno Peters
Judit Somogyi
Thor Markussen

Note: this design has been abandoned.

Design strategy

For presentation purposes, we use Dragon Dreaming for this design.

Dreaming: Awareness
Dreaming: Motivation
Dreaming: Gathering …

Hexagons Proeftuin Meerhoven

Posted on 2018-06-25 20:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-08-14 08:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, building design, Eindhoven, planning for real, client interview, 5 W’s, 9 ways of observing, PMI, functions and elements, 4 questions, abandoned design

Photo of hexagon and base layer of pallets on 2018-06-18

Base for the hexagon and the first layer of pallets.

Note: this design has been abandoned.

Background

Proeftuin Meerhoven is cooperative maintaining a community garden in Eindhoven. I am a member of the cooperative. The municipality of Eindhoven has given us about 6000 m² of public land to garden on …

Design Summer Party

Posted on 2018-06-04 20:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, Eindhoven, party, CEAP, 5 W’s, 9 ways of observing, flow, ethics, attitudinal principles, kanban, 4 questions, season: summer

Background

One of the challenges facing us the coming years is a return to a more communal way of living. A party is a good way to practice coming together and exchanging ideas and inspiration. A way also to connect different circles of people.

The goal is to create a …

Design Arno’s backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-24 14:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-12-30 23:05 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven, CEAP, client interview, ethics, zones and sectors, 9 ways of observing, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles

This is the main design for the backyard. It ties the other designs for the garden together.

Backyard in the middle of May 2018.

My front yard and back yard provide the perfect practice ground for trying out new ideas. These pages document some of the ideas I have executed …

Compost bin in Arno’s backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-23 14:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, backyard, compost, CEAP, Holmgren principles

This is a design for the compost bin in Arno’s backyard.

Background

Designer: Arno Peters.

Design strategy

I used CEAP in designing this.

Collect site information

See site information for all collected information on the backyard.

The Humanure Handbook from Joseph Jenkins provides great insight into composting.

I watched …

Designing a water catchment for Arno’s backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-22 14:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, water catchment, CEAP, Holmgren principles

This is a design for the water catchment in Arno’s backyard.

Water comes from the downspout via the grey pipe on the left. Water is stored in the blue barrel. Water overflows via the black tube and then down the brown pipe. The bucket makes for a small bird …