permaculture assessment; processes for closed resource cycles, energy, john cassel
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Permaculture Assessment
Encouraging Reliable Flourishing
@JohnBCasselAgrible
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Theory; No Case Studies
Encouraging Reliable Flourishing
John Cassel
Agrible
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What is permaculture?
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Permaculture for agroecology: design, movement, practice,and worldview. A review
Rafter Sass Ferguson & Sarah Taylor Lovell
Agronomy for Sustain. Development (2014) 34:251–274
DOI 10.1007/s13593-013-0181-6
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Permaculture is addressing its challenges
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Is permaculture assessment possible?
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Toby Hemenway suggests not
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His points are true
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His points are true
but invite constructive responses
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Permaculture is a toolbox of approaches (organic farming, agroforestry, renewable
energy, water harvesting, etc.) that are already proven in their respective domains.
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We don’t need scientific trials of permaculture
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We need more scientific trials of permaculture-inspired agroecology
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Permaculture needs more program assessment
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Aerospace engineering is also a toolbox ● Fluid dynamics● Structural engineering● Thermodynamics● Control Systems● Human Factors● Finance● Electronics● etc.
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Aerospace engineering pays attention to operational methods for improving
systems integration
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ExampleMultidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO)
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Each permaculture system makes a particular balance of food production,
habitat provision, and input reduction that is impossible to assess against different
goals.
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Not all criteria should be considered equal
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If one were to compare designs based on the same goals but using similarly
appropriate design processes, how could we measure the difference between the
outcomes in any meaningful way?
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From rigid goals, domain-appropriate design approaches
should have similar results
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Designers DiscoverNeeds
http://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com/image/110646060721
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Assessment is not about comparing design processes, but determining if a given
design process reliably leads to appropriate interventions
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When one “measures permaculture”, what is one measuring?
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We can agree that “measuring permaculture”
is nonsense
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Permaculture is all of these
● a design process● a movement● a set of best
practices ● a worldview
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Our focus:permaculture’s design process
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We are interested in questions which help build useful critiques of the
permaculture design process.
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We are also interested in understanding the permaculture design process
compared with differently-minded design processes
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Permaculture creates systems that participants agree feel most alive and
provides new lifeways. This phenomenological assessment supersedes
reductionist particulars.
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Living constrained by quantitative metrics is a lifeway humanity should try to avoid
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A proper use of assessment is to expand the phenomenological richness of how we
interpret our development
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What does it mean to assess the permaculture design process?
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We are interested in questions which help build useful critiques for a given
undertaking of the permaculture design process.
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Permaculture’s MissionTo maximize the sustained flourishing of
the resource-renewing cycles in which we participate
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Design Process Expectations1) Reliably discover substantive concerns
2) Reliably create appropriate interventions
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Reliability at substantially improving the sustained flourishing of resource-renewing
cycles that provide for the designer's human needs
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Reliable Flourishing
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What does design process quality consist of?
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Design Process Qualities• Result Quality• Evaluation Strategy Quality• Discovery Strategy Quality• Purpose Quality
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Result QualityHow good was the outcome given the kind
of challenge it became? How did the outcome compare to similar interventions
to similar problems?
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Evaluation Strategy QualityHow thoroughly did we use what we know in evaluating the intervention? How much of the “space” of different alternatives did
we cover?
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Discovery Strategy QualityAt what rate did we continue to find the
different conditions imposed by the situation? Did the rate at which we
discovered impacts diminish?
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Purpose QualityHow well did we find a problem worth
addressing? Was what was actually implemented really worthwhile by
standards external to the logic of the problem?
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But what difficulty did the situation present?
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Situation Challenge Severities• Design and Implementation Costs• Analytic and Computational Complexity• Obscurity and the Unknown• Ugliness of Trade-offs
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What do these qualities assume design is?
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Implicit Model of Design• Domain-specific Design Competencies• Synthesis, Analysis, & Selection• Discovery and Information Gathering• Ethical Guidelines and Worldview
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What is permaculture design?
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The Analysis Stage of the
PermacultureProcess
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Assessing a particular permaculture exercise
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Result Quality● Are the designer’s needs reliably
satisfied (produced, maintained, processed) with additional yields?
● How little waste is generated?● How few external resources are
required?● How much work is required?
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Evaluation Strategy Quality● Were all of the needs designed to?● Were all of the selected elements
evaluated against potential sectors?● Did we consider a significant range of
element combinations?● Did we consider a significant diversity of
arrangements?
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Discovery Strategy Quality● Has the rate of finding new needs,
elements, sectors, functions, and arrangements, decline as to become negligible?
● Were we ever surprised? At what rate?● Did the design situation find cost/risk
equilibrium?
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Purpose Quality● By virtue of the system, do we better
take responsibility for the ecological presence of ourselves?
● Was the first purpose of the design to care for the earth, and then people?
● Did our design have a minimal footprint?
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Cost Severity● What work, waste, and external inputs
were required to configure this new arrangement?
● How much of those were incurred in the design process versus establishment?
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Severity of Complexity ● How incompatible were elements
with each other?● How many elements were eliminated
by sector, zone, or cost constraints?● How needy were the necessary
elements?
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Severity of Obscurity● Were relevant design elements easily
discovered?● Was the interaction between elements
known?● Were the needs readily forthcoming?● Were design-eliminating sectors still
being discovered?
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Trade-off Severity● Did the only viable ecologically sound
designs produce a dramatically lower quality of human life?
● Did taking care of people mean that there were no further conserved resources?
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How effective is permaculture’s process guidance?
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Each aspect is supported two ways• Prior knowledge • Operational guidance in executing
processes
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Permaculture Process QualitySolution Evaluation Discovery Purpose
Prior knowledge
Many well-known systems and teams
Teaminteractions becoming understood
Only rough categories for human needs
Simple and articulated ethics
Operational Guidance
Many appropriateinstructions
Heuristic,Not MDOlevel
Part of Process
Early observation;boundaries
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Permaculture as a design process among peers
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We are also interested in understanding the permaculture design process
compared with differently-minded design processes
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Design Process Peers Total Discipline Analytical Framework
Risk Governance Game Theory
Engineering (as it actually happens)
Engineering Design
Permaculture System Dynamics
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A Model of Engineering Design
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Engineering Design Process QualitySolution Evaluation Discovery Purpose
Prior knowledge
Many well-known systems
Simulation and Meta-modeling
Human factors and checklists
Professional responsibility
Operational Guidance
Well-developed Trades
Optimization andexperimental design
Not considered
Not considered
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A Model of Risk Governance
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Risk Governance Process QualitySolution Evaluation Discovery Purpose
Prior knowledge
Some well-known systems (expected)
Expert Analysis/Public Deliberation
Known Risks to Human Life
Human Rights
Operational Guidance
Somedeveloped approaches(expected)
Game theoretic analysis
Stakeholder Engagement
AssuringRational Communication
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Permaculture Process QualitySolution Evaluation Discovery Purpose
Prior knowledge
Many well-known systems and teams
Teaminteractions becoming understood
Only rough categories for human needs
Simple and articulated ethics
Operational Guidance
Many appropriateinstructions
Heuristic,Not MDOlevel
Part of Process
Early observation;boundaries
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Permaculture could also use Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
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Generic Engineering Optimization
Minimize difference from goals
While maintaining constraints
By varying parameters
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Optimization for Permaculture Minimize waste, work, external inputs
Maintaining needed production, processing, and maintained conditions
By varying parameters determining elements and how they connect
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Optimization for permaculturemight be a bad idea
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Takeaways
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Permaculture is a purpose-rich design process that attends to ongoing discovery
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Permaculture needs specific and detailed lists of shelter, nutritional, and social
needs
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Permaculture can borrow the optimization methods of engineering designX
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