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===== Permaculture ===== | ===== Permaculture ===== | ||
- | The Book | + | These notes form a part of [[xmedk workshop|x-med-k]]. [[Media Ecologies workshop]] |
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- | ==== Discussions/ | + | ’PERMACULTURE’ was originally coined in the mid seventies by two Australians, |
- | An imaginative text based on contemporary travel through | + | A research |
+ | * How can we make ethical thinking part of the ongoing design education? Why is there strong resistance to the word, ' | ||
+ | * Permaculture looks at a graceful response towards a 'slow decline' | ||
+ | * An important aspect was that of information ' | ||
+ | * Another issue was that of a gradual realisation of the importance and transformation from an outlook and approach based on ' | ||
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- | * The link between forest/ | + | |
- | * Leper colony, Santhal tribal woman | + | |
- | * Time and space continuum( numbers , age )the sense of ‘’loss’’ of self in sexual congress, | + | |
- | * Urban forests… urban jungle, | + | |
- | * A mental forest | + | |
- | * Can urban life and wilderness co-exist | + | |
- | * Is the loss of wild an indispensable cost of development, | + | |
- | * Soil as a unifying factor, just as the sky | + | |
- | * Menstrual cycles and primitive tribal woman | + | |
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- | The eastward expansion of the city is causing the fast transformation of the semi rural and rural landscape into highly urban settlements in the eastern fringe of Calcutta. Kalikapur, a densely populated locality inhabited mostly by the people from poorer economic strata, a unique ecosystem with very rich mosaic of original vegetation, with groves of indigenous trees and bushes, swamps with reeds, and number of water bodies, has strangely survived the onslaught and now remains as a refuge threatened by the fast approaching urban expansion. A considerable number of Kalikapur residents have significant dependence on the local wilderness for their dietary supplements, | + | |
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- | A small group comprises of knowledgeable kids from Kalikapur, and kids from the adjacent urban locality, who have operational computer knowledge, would be formed. Kalikapur kids will work as field guides and the urban ones will take charge of the documentation (paper, photographs, | + | |
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- | ====Visit to Chandani-Chowk==== | + | |
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- | moonlight junction.... one of the most dense places on the planet... absolute and complete sense of chaos... people shouting, screaming and jostling ... every third step a group of people is eating ... visit to the 15th century haveli... peepal tree... religious significance... the tree vs the built form... growing forms vs static rigid forms... why can't our buildings... or built habitats grow... and cooperate with the trees they stand next to ... why can't the built mass be built with materials and systems which when fed with water, electricity, | + | |
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- | i walk down the street to see more informal courtyards and smaller, personal touches of green... in front of the temple... the small jamun tree in the court yard... tulsi and kadi patta... gainda flowers... the lady who loves her money plants so much that her daughter in law has also had to fall in love with them and is seeing them as a source of joy, peace, fortune, health ... | + | |
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- | there is just too much fiesty talk and discourse all around... people are brain numb and driven into giving up their interests... awareness is at its bottom most level... it is like a crowd of cows being fed heavily before being butchered... chipko movement... blank noise... silence... tree and plants are mute and remain so... french animation where humans and their greed makes them pigs eventually resulting in their death... not death... death is beautiful... it is immortal since nothing changes once you reach it ... you don't get old, you do not change.... through death one goes beyond | + | |
- | visit to the jain temple... beautiful ambience... one thing which remains in my mind was a statement from the priest ... '' | + | |
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- | today i see trees only in areas where they have been given explicit permission to exist... schools, institutions, | + | |
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- | ====== Europe :: Asia / India ====== | + | |
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- | * There seem to be numerous contextual divides between European and Asian backdrops and settings :soil conditions, native plants, traditional knowledge, type of relationship, | + | |
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- | * At one level, we have approaches and techniques like seedballing // moss graffiti // psychogeography which happens in a bottom up way ... often fragmented till it reaches a tipping point !! This is in my opinion is a great way to approach numerous cities in Europe where the awareness is high and '' | + | |
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- | * Agriculture in urban India is a means of sustenance and earning money... done by the poor/ | + | |
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- | * We have an opportunity here... to design '' | + | |
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- | If you see the link above, one sees the shocking numbers we are against_ 17 million humans born every year and if you scroll down you will see the rapid and frenetic pace at which forests are being depleted and the top soil eroded. | + | |
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- | We need to strike at the heart of this problem. To have ubiquitous planting i propose we create a series of green tiles which can be used in a modular manner in the construction and automobile industry. _ **a green brick**_ a brick which breathes and lives like a plant_ you could call it a plant tile too... but a properly designed intelligent green organic modular brick which can have a range of plants/ | + | |
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- | A modification of this brick could go on and be integrated with the design/ | + | |
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- | All this to say that, we will not step back, or we just can not cut back on the scale and pace of growth in urban realms but we can feed life and fertility into that growth and make it a green growth | + | |
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- | **Source: Case Study Delhi** | + | |
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- | **Peri-urban agriculture in India by D S Bhupal, Dr. Fiona Marshall, Dolf te Lintelo** | + | |
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- | •The rural-peri-urban-urban continuum itself is dynamic in nature and the changes are more marked around cities that are rapidly urbanizing or growing both economically and spatially, as compared to slower-growing or stagnant urban cores. | + | |
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- | •With the emphasis on rural agriculture in India, the positive contribution that production closer to the cities can make has hardly been acknowledged. | + | |
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- | •A neglect of this issue by the international and national research communities. Indeed, in India, government policies, scientific research communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have shown little recognition of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA). | + | |
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- | •Urban food security is becoming a matter of increasing concern and urban poverty is reflected in the nutritional status of people. | + | |
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- | •The main urban agricultural area in the core area of the city of Delhi is the floodplain along the Yamuna River. The area beyond the urban conglomeration of " | + | |
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- | •Urbanization and industrialization affect agriculture in the peri-urban areas, as population pressure from the city results in changes in land use - from agricultural to urban land use, be it for housing, commercial, industrial or other purposes. Where the land use remains agricultural, | + | |
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- | •The role of agriculture as a livelihood strategy for the poor in peri-urban areas: access to land and water is the prime condition for urban peri agriculture | + | |
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- | •Wheat, rice and great and spiked millet are cultivated on most of the agricultural land. Vegetable cultivation is also popular. | + | |
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- | •The number of days of involvement in agriculture as reported by labourers surveyed ranged from 100 to 270 days per year. On average, agricultural labourers were involved for 48 days in zaid/summer (May-June), 55 days in kharif/wet (July-October) and 52 days in rabi/winter season (October-April). | + | |
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- | •Agriculture has an important function in providing employment for poor people in the fringe areas of Delhi. The agricultural activities have a fairly rural character, with dominant roles for cereal (such as wheat, millet and paddy) and fodder crops. Typical cropping systems are millet-wheat; | + | |
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- | •The trend in cropping patterns around Delhi is for traditional multicropping systems of local cereal crops, pulses and oilseeds being replaced by high-input high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice after the green revolution. One striking feature of the agricultural systems is that farmers are producing a large amount of green fodder crops such as berseem. These crops demand relatively little attention, allowing farmers to focus their efforts on cultivating other produce. Generally, fodder is grown for cattle feed, and a significant share is used for buffaloes and cows in dairy production. | + | |
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- | Vegetables grown in and around Delhi include cauliflower, | + | |
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- | **•Contribution to the city's food economy:** | + | |
- | Agriculture around cities may improve the access of poor urban consumers to cheap and healthy food. This assessment of the extent to which food commodities produced in UPA areas contribute to fulfilling annual or seasonal demand in Delhi shows that there are large variations among different crops. For instance, the bulk of city dwellers' | + | |
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- | **•Assessing constraints to production** | + | |
- | UPA is subject to a wide range of constraints to production. Some, for example pest attacks, adverse weather conditions and timely access to inputs such as seeds and pesticides, are common to all agricultural areas, but there are also issues that are specific to this environment. An important emerging constraint is the effect of environmental pollution of the air, soil and water, which potentially compromises the quantity, quality and safety of food produced in UPA areas. | + | |
- | In view of the general lack of awareness about the significance of UPA, creating effective linkages with research and policy communities is of prime importance. Firstly, this requires the identification of key stakeholders from government, private sector and non-governmental organizations. Secondly, in-depth analysis of the existing legal-administrative, | + | |
- | The policy environment in general is marked by a common dichotomy between urban and rural development administration and policies, leaving little scope for acknowledgement of the specific characteristics and needs of agriculture in the urban and peri-urban areas. Agricultural policies are primarily designed for rural areas, and are therefore not always compatible with the needs of UPA farmers. To bridge this gap, opportunities for linking up with activities and programmes need to be identified. | + | |
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