{"id":11158,"date":"2026-10-26T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associazionekora.it\/?post_type=kora_activity&#038;p=11158"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:14:32","slug":"sustainable-design-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"kora_activity","link":"https:\/\/associazionekora.it\/it\/activity\/sustainable-design-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Design in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Training course on permaculture and natural building<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Build, design, learn: youth workers from eight countries explored permaculture as a design system and built three natural buildings on the farm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Perch\u00e9<\/h3>\n<p>The most powerful way to learn ecological design is to do it: on a real site, with real constraints, alongside people from different countries.<\/p>\n<h3>Quello che \u00e8 successo<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Permaculture as design:<\/strong> ethics and principles, zoning, bioclimatic design and energy flows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Water and soil:<\/strong> swales, rainwater harvesting and composting toilets; soil, plants and plant guilds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural building:<\/strong> timber frames, natural insulation, lime and earth plaster, prepared in morning sessions and practised on site every afternoon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simple and waste-free:<\/strong> only three sizes of timber and three types of screw, a cutting plan to use every plank in full, and insulation from local hay and around 100 old pillows from a local farm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A design for the farm:<\/strong> a permaculture layout for one of La Buona Terra\u2019s spaces, presented and discussed together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Risultati<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Three natural buildings<\/strong> built by the group on the farm. They work as dry toilets in summer and as storage for mattresses and tents in winter.<\/li>\n<li>Practical building skills, and methods youth workers can repeat with young people at home.<\/li>\n<li>Average overall satisfaction: <strong>4.85 out of 5<\/strong> (13 responses).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI truly saw the importance of practical activities with a clear and material objective, in this case building three dry toilets, to increase team building, interaction and exchange.\u201d (a Sustainable Design in Practice participant)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy most valuable take-away: what permaculture is and how we can apply it to our lives even if we don\u2019t live in the countryside or have a farm.\u201d (a Sustainable Design in Practice participant)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/17jEwnJABNz-wDBv_6d62Y4SGY-3Ep9LZ\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Carousel of Techniques (PDF)<\/strong><\/a>, made by the participants of Make Your Voices Heard about this building site. <em>Concesso in licenza secondo <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>. \u00a9 Associazione di Promozione Sociale Kora e partner del progetto.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":11139,"template":"","kora_country":[],"class_list":["post-11158","kora_activity","type-kora_activity","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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