Where do the design frameworks we use and promote in permaculture come from? Permaculture is a magpie discipline taking useful material from many places and often forgetting where it took it from along the way – what can we collectively re-member? What are the histories of SADIMET, OBRDIMET and others – and might knowing those histories inform our use of them now?

2. Present

3. Design Frameworks
AKA Design Processes
AKA DesignSequences
AKA DesignProcedures
AKA Design Macros
AKA Design Spaces
AKA Design Spirals…
Permaculture Design Processes
By Hannah Thorogood

4. Design Tools
AKA Design Methods
Permaculture Design Tools
By Hannah Thorogood

5. S Survey
A Assess/Analyse
D Design/Decisions
I Implement
M Maintain/Manage
E Evaluate
T Tweak

6. From Hedvig Murray’s website http://hedvigmurray.co.u

7. O
Observe
B Boundaries
R Resources
E Evaluate
D Design/Decisions
I Implementation
M Maintain/Manage
E
T (r)Evaluate
Tweak

8. Anonymous, from http://clipartist.info

9. C Collect site information
E Evaluate this information
Apply permaculture
A Principles to this information
& to generate a design
P Plan a schedule of
implementation,
Maintenance & tweaking

10. Patrick Whitefield
From Earth Care Manual

11. Australian Design Process? “IIEPCIORR” from AranyaPermaculture Design

12. Ross Mars Design Process
From The Basics of Permaculture Design (1996)
Information Phase Analysis Phase Design Phase Management Phas
Observing & Reflecting, Determining Implementing,
Collecting Data Examining & Strategies Monitoring &
Collating data. managing
Recognizing
patterns

13. Action Learning Cycle

14. Past
Permaculture Elder

15. OLD
MEN

16. ACTION
LEARNING
CYCLE

17. David A Kolb (b.1939)

18. Peter Honey and Alan Mumford’s
Reworking of Kolb’s Learning Cyc
Peter Honey (b.1940)

19. Japanese P-D-C-A cycle, 1951

20. W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993 )
Deming Wheel (1951)

21. Statistical method from the viewpo
quality control (1939)
Dr Walter A. Shewhart (1891-1967)

22. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Novum Organum Scientiarum(1620)

23. Chris Argyris Donald
(b.1923) Schön
(1930-1997)
The Reflective Practitioner:
How professionals think in
Action (1984)

24. O’BREDIMET
From Industrial Engineering?

25. Russell Mackenzie Currie (1902 - 1967)
Work Study (1960)

26. S-R-E-D-I-M
Select
Record
Examine
Develop
Install
Maintain

27. 1970s – uses SREDIM in production engineerin
context.
1980s – teaching permaculture, recognizing lack
design frameworks adapts SREDIM as BREDIM
B Boundaries and resources
R Recording of the site
E Examination and analysis of data
D Design strategies chosen
I Implementation Strategy
M Maintenance requirement of proposed syste
Andy Langford (b.1949)

28. Development of BREDIM
To OBREDIM – Addition of O for Observation
From Welsh permaculture group early 1990s?
To OBREDIMET – Addition of ET for Evaluation
and Tweaking
From within permaculture community late 1990s?

29. SADIMET
From Landscape Architecture?

30. The modernist Survey-Analysis-Design procedure, as used in the 1970s
From City as Landscape: A Post Post-modern View of Design and Planning
(1995)by Tom Turner

31. Patrick Geddes (1854 – 1922)
SURVEY – ASSESS - PLAN
“Survey before plan”
“Diagnostic Survey”
“Conservative Surgery”

33. Geddes - Valley Section

34. Andy Langford Design Cycle Manual (Gaia University International)

35. Future
Bill Mollison & David Holmgren

36. Design Web
Developed by Looby
McNamara
www.spiralsofabundance.com
www.designedvisions.com

37. James Chapman’s Designing Tree
Design Process
Three Phases:
1 – Ground Work (Roots)
2 – Evaluation and The Elements
(Trunk)
3 – The Design Tools (Branches),
Principles (Leaves) and Ideas (Blossom)

38. E-G-A-D-I-M-E
Design Process
by Deano Martin
http://deanom.wordpress.com/diploma/test-one/project-two/

39. Goals Articulation
Site Analysis & Assessment
Design Concept Development
Design
David Jacke
Implementation
David Jacke with Eric ToensmeirEdible Forest Ga
Maintenance Volume Two: Design & Practice (2005)

40. Design process developed by
Ethan Roland and colleagues at
Appleseed Permaculture.
http://appleseedpermaculture.com
/services/design/

41. GaSADIM Addition of
“Goals Articulation”
To SADIM Design Process
GaSADIE
GSADIM

42. Permaculture Design
Process Wheel
By Charles A. Laurel
(Inspired by Dave
Jacke, Jon Young, and
Mark Morey)
http://www.transitionputney.net/r
esources/a-permaculture-design-
process-wheel/

43. 8 Shields Model via Jon Young
http://8shields.com/

44. Ken Wilber’s “AQAL”
Model used within
Integrative Ecosocial Design
At Gaia University
http://www.gaiauniversity.org/

45. http://biomimicry.net

46. Wider Design
Thinking

47. A double diamond diagram was developed through in-house research at the Design Council
in 2005 as a simple graphical way of describing the design process.

48. Tom Markus and Tom Maver’s map of the
architectural design process (1969/70)

49. RIBA’s outline
“Plan of Work”
Original (1960s)
and 2013 revision

50. Engineering
Design
Process
(NASA)

51. RESOURCES
Books
Hugh DubberlyHow do you Design: A Compendium of
Models
Hanks, Belliston Edwards Design Yourself
J. Christopher Jones Design Methods
Bryan Lawson How Designers Think; The Design Process
Demystified
Websites
Design Council - www.designcouncil.org.uk/designprocess
IDEO - http://www.ideo.com/work/toolkit-for-educators
J. Christopher Jones -http://www.softopia.demon.co.uk/
MetadesignersOpen Network - http://metadesigners.org

52. Will there be permaculture design in the new Design Museum?
Why Not?

53. James Piers Taylor
@LondonPrmcultr
http://permaculturediploma.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturewise
http://www.youtube.com/LondonPermacultur
e
http://www.slideshare.net/yourmindfire Langford for
Thanks to Aranya, Graham Bell, Jon Boshier, Mark Fisher and Andy
providing information.