Day 7 Forests and woodlands
- Trees and forests – energy transactions, photosynthesis - forests and rainfall - light and heat - trees and wind - planting strategies and patterns: shelterbelt and hedges
- Design, systems and pattern - design as a system - entity and relationship mapping - thinking and working at scale
- Cultivating in climate zones - creating microclimate - food forests
Lunch
- Branching patterns - observation – range and function - transfer systems – orders of form in rivers and sand dunes
- Woodland and cultivation – in tropics and in temperate climates – nitrogen fixers – food crops - planting patterns - sylvan polycultures - forest garden as a pattern - management, nutrient cycling, mulch and composting, Jean Pain method, Hugel mounds
- Patterns - succession and stacking
Day 8 Design and aquaculture systems
- Aquaculture – systems and strategies - natural wetland eco-systems chinampas and waru waru - hydroponics and intensive systems
- Design – random assembly – options and decisions – overlays and exclusion method - design methods summary – purpose and function - emergence, growth and feedback loops - networks and cells
- Climate – climate and house design - cultivating across climate zones
Lunch
- Ponds and lakes - functions and yields - ecologies - nitrogen cycle - Next | Previous | Back to list of mudules by day | Back to "Modular course dates" eutrophication - oxygen BOD and COD - thermoclines - strategies and construction - edge, chinampas
- Aquaculture 2 - fish farming and aquaponics
- Natural wastewater treatment – living systems – domestic – industrial/remedial