Design for Resilient Human Settlements
This is the second story from the learning process in Millenrama. You can read the first here.
The week 5-9th of May 2010 team El Manzano was hosted in Millenrama, Mantagua, 5th region to run an Applied Permaculture Design course.
As El Manzano tests ideas for assisting people and communities to engage in transition and design for resilient human settlements, the team develops competency in the delivery of catalytic learning events, in facilitation and leadership by design. As the experience is reviewed once again it is confirmed that there is no power equal to a community deciding what it will become.
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The shortest day of the year in Chile and the rain is coming down. It is cold and wet. As we celebrate the new year and the return of the sun, thousands of people in the surrounding region are living in government supplied shacks....affectionately termed ´´Mediagua´´ or half water. Most of them are leaking with the rain, and the wind is coming in. You can find 
These fotos were produced by Craig Mackintosh of the Permaculture Research Institute. 
As the autumn sun gets lower in Chile, the cold sets in, and thousands of Chileans are still without a home, living in tents, awaiting government housing. Permaculture in Chile cuts to the chase and asks people what they really need and want.
