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A blog post all about Pattern Languages

A Pattern Language of Sustainability - Ecological design and Permaculture - By Joanne Tippett - April, 1994

A blog post with lots to explore on sustainable city design

I am particularly struck by the idea of decomposing problems into sub-problems whilts paying attention to the intersection of these so that a sub-team can work on a bounded project and konw that what they solve will link well to problems on all sides ... I have looked at the Ushahidi software a number of times but don't have the capacity to run it or fully understand it -- a joint project anyone?

I really liked this video showing the process of "Holistic Pattern Mining" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plpwld6dIms&feature=share&list=PLJgEdsvavJ1Un66I1Pf--cJEOunbjCFBp I am also wondering about Morphological Analysis for solving these complex issues. Does anyone have any experience with it? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis_%28problem-solving%29 I would be interested in working on such a project.

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This is similar to WWOOFing yet they have integrated some feedback loops, much like couchsurfing - So you can read peoples reviews of places they worked and you can build a reputation through getting reviews.

The aim of this work is a cross-disciplinary integration of ideas specifically relevant to permaculture design and the physical structure of human settlements. Although this work is ambitious in scope, I feel this is an important element of the writing, to present an overview such that the reader is able to see the inter-relations of many ideas relevant to design. This is a synthesis of a kind which I believe has so far not been attempted.

Welcome to the HTML version of Sacred Economics. The full version is here in English, along with full and partial translations into other languages.

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