Diploma Designs
Welcome to my portfolio of permaculture designs for my diploma journey!
As a candidate of the diploma in applied permaculture design I have created 10 designs for assessment. My Diploma designs are gathered here, and you can see the designs by clicking on the photos(and in heading of Nordic permaculture handbook). The Miro boards might take a moment to load.
You can also read more about my diploma journey under the main heading ‘My Diploma Adventure’.
My designs have a wide range of topics; from land-based forest garden, to personal designs of my morning routines and creativity, to my economy, group facilitation and teacher training, and through to designing for larger groups and projects like the social design for Opsal farm and the design for the Nordic permaculture festival.
The red thread through my designs can be summed up in the title of design nr 2: “ Integrating passion and work-expression”, which is the overarching intention of my ongoing journey, as I develop and I share who I am.
Design one: NURTURING RHYTHMS OF SELF CARE
I designed and established nurturing morning patterns to support me as I begun my diploma journey. These habits have provided me with good encouragement and inspiration.
Design two: INTEGRATING PASSION AND WORK-EXPRESSION
I designed a weekend introduction course in Permaculture at Opsal Farm. I have continued to engage with the farm activity and also co-created a social design; Design nr. 6
Design three: NORDIC PERMACULTURE FESTIVAL
Norway was the hosting country for the festival in 2024, and I designed our process, as well as the festival handbook. The festival handbook continues to be used in the Nordic community, and in the moment of writing is being developed further to function within a more integrated system for the festival organization and promotion.
Design four: TMW (TAI CHI MOVEMENTS FOR WELLBEING) TEACHER TRAINING
This design was made to organize a TMW Teacher Training in Norway. Due to other unforeseen work commitments, the design has yet to be implemented.
Design five: SPACE FOR EMERGENCE
Linking back to my first design, this design culminated in an exhibition of my ’20 minute morning engagement’ with works on paper. It was a fundamentally inspiring design to encourage and manifest my artistic expression.
Design six: SOCIAL DESIGN FOR OPSAL FARM
A co-creative design together with Georgiana Keable to manifest more long term residents at the farm. The design continues to inform the farm developments, and also be tweaked according to new situations.
Design seven: MY ECONOMY
Since I am on an adventure towards my right livelyhood, I needed a design for overview of my economy. Thanks to this design I have established some better habits- and am still working on it.
Design eight: RINGSBY FOREST GARDEN
Our family hut has an old fruit garden that has been in decline for decades. This design was made to regenerate the plot into forest garden.
Design nine: CREATIVE EDGE
A hedge-design to create a boundary around the forest garden (D#8). Manifesting in a dead hedge, and plans for living willow hedge laying as well as traditional Norwegian Skigard.
Design ten: EMBODIED ECOLOGY: MY WEBSITE DESIGN
The design that laid the foundations for this very website where you are reading this. The website is designed to meet my need to communicate my livelyhood and what I have to offer, alongside documenting my Group Diploma Adventure.