An Exploration of the Head, Heart & Hands of Local Resilience

El Manzano BioBio Chile

March 24 - April 7

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This two-week, hands-on training brings together sustainability designers, teachers and practitioners with enthusiasts who want to learn how to implement projects that integrate and localize solutions to meet basic human needs of healthy water, food and shelter.

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Through hands-on projects, demonstrations and presentations, classes and discussions, participants will have a chance to wrap their heads, hearts and hands around:

Green Building & the Permaculture Master Plan in Chile 

El Manzano sets out to build a campus of the great reskilling, implementing a permaculture master plan, and a summer of bioconstruction. So ends a cycle of change, and another cycle begins.

Since 2009 we have been working on the plans to make El Manzano a world class centre for sustainable education that equips people with the values, knowledge and skills needed to make the transition from an unsustainable growth culture to resilient human communities. As we begin to attract more and more visitors students and interns our facilities are often found to be lacking, and not of a quality befitting a green campus.  

Building Local Resilience

The house of Miguel was almost finished this weekend, with a final layer of fine plaster going up. The windows are in, the doors are on their hinges, and Miguel almost the proud owner of a handmade house. Replete with frescoes on the wall, this little piece of art may be here in another century as a relic of our story, testament to the ethic of collaboration, of a local, national and international community coming together to help one man achieve his aspirations.

You can read another perspective about the workshop here 'good idea, good people, good place, good cause' in Arquitectura y Territoro by participant Elena Mayorga Marnich.

Prepare yourself for a Future in Transition (Español)

Details

When: 12 de Febrero al 27 de Febrero 2011. 

Where: El Manzano, Cabrero, Región del Bío-Bío, Chile.

Formato: Intensivo 9am-10pm todo los dias, empieza el 12 de Febrero, con un día libre o salida a terreno opcional en la mitad del curso. Los estudiantes necesitan llegar en la tarde de viernes antes de que el curso comience.

THIS IS A BILINGUAL COURSE

Prepare yourself for a future in Transition (Español)

Local and Healthy Shelter by the Community for the Community

These fotos were produced by Craig Mackintosh of the Permaculture Research Institute. You can see his work here.

The work is now underway in el manzano, with the foundations being put in in the last few days using available and affordable local materials and innovative simple construction techniques.