Ciencia de Diseño Ecológico (English)

Por Joanne Tippett. El objetivo de este trabajo es una integración inter-disciplinario de ideas especialmente relevantes para el diseño de permacultura y la estructura física de los asentamientos humanos. Aunque este trabajo es ambicioso en su alcance, creo que este es un elemento importante de la escritura, para presentar un resumen de tal manera que el lector es capaz de ver las relaciones entre las ideas relevantes para el diseño. Esta es una síntesis de un tipo que creo que hasta ahora no ha sido intentado.

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Estructura

1.2 Principles Basicos

2.0 Calidad de Vida

2.1 Right Livelihood

2.2 Bioregionalism

2.3 Commons

2.4 Commons and nature in ritual and celebration

3.0 Patterns in nature

3.1 Observation of nature

3.2 Chaos and systems theory in relationship to permaculture

3.3 Fractals and edge effect

3.4 Understanding patterns

4.0 Observation underlying design

4.1 Mapping and spatial understanding

4.2 Time and form

4.3 Process of design

4.4 An approach for implementation

5.0 Application of natural patterns to design

5.1 Implicate wholeness and patterns of change

5.2 Spatial understanding

5.3 Nodes

5.4 A sense of belonging

5.5 From disconnection to integration in building design

5.6 Urban planning

5.7 Levels of scale and density

5.8 Fractal branching: from disconnection to integration

5.9 Crenellating the edge: urban rural integration

5.91 Webs of wild life

5.92 Pattern of Sustainability, an example

6.0 Patterns of production

6.1 Value adding to resources and job creation

6.2 Industrial ecology

6.3 Living machines

6.4 Energy

6.5 Agriculture

6.6 Elements of agriculture 6.6i Soil 6.6ii Trees 6.6iii Animals 6.6iv Water

7.0 Patterns of social structures

7.1 Money

7.2 LETS

7.3 Networks of information and nodal education

7.4 Decentralised government

8.0 Conclusion

8.1 Difficulty of predicting the future

8.2 Learning as you go along

8.3 Self realization through positive action

Bibliography

List of illustrations

1 Comparison of permaculture and conventional agriculture

2 Fractal patterns increase edge effect

3 Crenellating the edge - deep interlock

4 Increasing edge in design

5 'Do-nothing' year - get house and garden in order

6 Dense nodes - coalescing from flow

7 Nodes of human settlement connected by rail and cycle paths

8 From disconnection to integration in building design

9 Ambiguity - indoor outdoor connections

10 Identifiable neighbourhood, embedded in town, embedded in larger whole

11 Fractal branching of paths

12 Crenellating the edges of nodes - agroforestry and industrial ecology

13 Networks of waterways, windbreaks, hedges - edges

14 Webs of wildlife

15 A pattern of sustainability

16 Detail of a node and wildlife web

17 Increasing the potential of agriculture - five dimensional thinking

18 Inter-relation - human activity and biodiversity