Day 3 - Water and Life
- Water is essential for life - uses and duties
- Water's unique properties – open structure - pH and nutrient availability - dissolved salts - buffering – dissolved gasses - problems with acid rain and salting
- Recap on design and ethics
- Systems and Design – elements / relationships /functions
Lunch
- Observation exercise - spirals in Nature - spiral patterns
- Site analysis – sector analysis
- Design – design cycle (O-A-D-I) - permaculture design defined overview
- Design and systems – yields, elements, functions and events
- Climate – world climate zones and climate patterns – weather systems
Day 4 - Water in the Landscape
- Water for energy and transportation – "anomaly" of water - density effects, surface tension - "living water", vortices, flowforms, Viktor Schauberger and implosion power
- Design and systems - objectives and directives - "limiting factors" in design
- Permaculture design defined (continued) – material, strategic and conceptual components - design cycle – BREDIM and so on
- Design methods – Relative Permanence
- Hydraulics and pneumatics - ram pumps, water wheels, trompe compressors
Lunch
- Water in the Landscape – water for irrigation and settlements – sources, sinks and stores - the water cycle and Kravcik's work - strategies for water harvesting and flood control - swales - keyline planning and dam sites - reservoir and dam construction - sandpit demonstration (include demonstrations of patterns of entropy and critical state)
- Climate and landscape events - landscape profiles - orographic rain - valley circulation - siting of buildings and terracing
- Drylands - salting and fossil water - swales, limonia and boomerangs - dryland cultivation and irrigation strategies