Arno Peters Blog

Project Gunsleben - General design - Planning phase

Posted on vr 13 juli 2018 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, dragon dreaming, dragon dreaming planning, Gunsleben, ethics, Holmgren principles, 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 - Dreaming phase

Posted on di 10 juli 2018 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, general design, dragon dreaming, dragon dreaming dreaming, Gunsleben, client interview, mapping, ways of observing, forms of capital, flow, history

This is the place we gather information about the project. See the design overview for the big picture.

Loes and Brand are hereafter referred to as the parents.

Map

Map created from satellite image, openstreetmap and provided sketch. Download and open the file in a vector …

Project Gunsleben - General Design - Overview

Posted on di 10 juli 2018 in designs • 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 Gunsleben - General Design - Meetings

Posted on za 07 juli 2018 in meetings • Tagged with permaculture, general design, meetings, 4 questions, dreaming circle, Karabirrdt

Kickoff

Roy and I kicked our project off on 2018-07-07 Saturday, the last day of the first week of the PDC in Gunsleben.

We created a Dream Circle to get at the dream for this project.

At the end we celebrated having come up with the dreams. We set up …

Design Online Learning Community

Posted on di 26 juni 2018 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, social design, dragon dreaming, 5 W's, 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 ma 25 juni 2018 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, building design, Eindhoven, planning for real, client interview, 5 W's, 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 ma 04 juni 2018 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, social design, Eindhoven, party, CEAP, 5 W's, 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 …