Draft texts To meet the standard, the candidate will have to meet the design criteria listed in the standard:
1.1 Produce designs that apply permaculture design principles to create holistic systems.
1.2 Utilise functions and elements such that inputs and outputs are connected to eliminate waste and pollution
1.3 Assemble a pattern of relationships between the elements of the system that will when implemented produce the specified yields.
2.1 Describe the expected performance of the elements proposed in a design and how they will contribute to productivity, efficiency, resilience and sustainability.
2.2 Detail the design to implementation process in terms of the role of observation, testing, maintenance and development.
3.1 Produce a permaculture design.
3.2 Produce specifications for the resources required for a project
3.3 Produce outline plans for implementation of a permaculture design
3.4 Resource efficiently for a permaculture design.
CHECK FROM HERE (AS revisions revised) 4.1 Demonstrate a broad range of permaculture principles to complete designs for a variety of contextual challenges.
4.2 Build on the foundation of a completion of the Mollison curriculum Permaculture Design Certificate
5.1 Utilise a broad range of permaculture design tools and methods. (cf 4.1)
5.2 Describe the decisions made to produce a variety of permaculture designs.
5.3 Evaluate the permaculture design decisions and processes applied in a variety of permaculture designs
6.1 Work with client requests, project specifications and design briefs for a variety of permaculture designs
6.2 Explain how a permaculture design meets the requests and aspirations of a client group.
6.3 Give observations on working and communicating with a broad range of community stakeholders.
7.1 Provide a critical evaluation of permaculture designs
7.2 Suggest improvements and developments that could be applied to a variety of permaculture designs
7.3 Critical evaluation of the future of permaculture design. (c.f. 8.1 etc)
8.1 Ethics
Essential criteria
Each candidate must have completed a minimum of a two-year period of work following the award of their 72 hour course certificate. (There is no maximum limit).
Candidates should demonstrate that they have gone through the design process at least 10 times, with results and workings shown in a portfolio. Ideally, they should attempt a diversity of design projects with a variety of objectives and at different scales. For each design, they should demonstrate design skill:
describe the design using systems terms and permaculture design language
explain how the design will function as a system
articulate the process of how the design was made – the observations, the analysis tools used, the design tools selected and why they were appropriate
relate the interactions with the Client (owners, client group, stakeholders) and explain how this has informed the design work
produce plans for implementation, specify resources, estimate costs and discuss budgets
evaluate what has been learned from the design and make suggestions for further work and improvements
discuss the design in terms of pattern and general ecological principles.At least 2-3 design processes should be comprehensive, and evidence should be provided of the "workings" that got a designer from talking to the client group to establish the brief, other evidence of client/community consultation, development of design proposals/briefs, base maps or situation diagrams, functional analyses, concept and design development plans, and then on to whatever stage was arrived at.
At least 2-3 designs should be accompanied by resource schedules and cost estimates. These should be discussed in the light of the budgets and other requirements of the Client.
When discussing designs, references should be made to the guidelines listed in the document “Permaculture Design Criteria Guide”.
The candidates should also show evidence of being guided by permaculture ethics in both their design practice and their daily lives (theory in action). They should display a deep understanding of the integrated nature of the ethics, and how they guide resource use. For example, references to “people care” should be linked to environmental impacts, references to the third ethic should be linked to the setting of limits.
Other criteria
Other criteria may be “desirable”, rather than “essential”. The complementary criteria introduced by the British Academy ("dissemination", "community building", "symmetry" and "evaluation and costings") are listed and discussed elsewhere under the title Complementary Criteria. These may be demonstrated at accreditation, at the discretion of apprentices and tutors. However, they will not affect the award of the diploma by the Institute.
Tutorials, process
The pathway that the candidate takes to arrive at accreditation is at the discretion of apprentices and their tutors. Again, this will not affect the award of the diploma by the Institute, provided that the essential criteria are met.
Award
The Institute will ratify the award of the Diploma in Permaculture Design when the above criteria have been met.
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