Category: Design Processes
What is a Site Assessment, and Why Do One?
What is a Site Assessment? A site assessment is the thorough observation, recording, compilation, and organization of all of the existing conditions that are present at or affect the design and function of a piece of property. For a landscape, this includes not only the physical features of a site (like landshape and structures), but…
The SADIMEA Design Process
The SADIMEA framework is a seven step design process used by 7th Generation Design to structure our design consultancy reporting and implementation work.
Permaculture – Foundational Ethics & Principles
The prime directive of permaculture helps us apply the three ethics and the twelve principles to design our lives and work to align with the regenerative patterns found in nature.
What Is A Whole Site Design, and Why Do One?
What is a Whole Site Design? A whole site design is a visually illustrated, comprehensive plan that integrates all of the elements required to realize the vision for a particular landscape, whether that be held by an individual or a group of people, into a cohesive, self-supporting whole that exists in harmony with the innate…
Introduction to Appropriate Energy
Three step process for designing appropriate energy systems for a regenerative future.
Lifestyle Design
STAYING ON THE PATH __________________ Uncovering Your Purpose, Creating Your Vision,๏ปฟ And Bringing It To Life. ~ A Process Roadmap ~ If you manage any land at all, whether it be a single garden bed or thousands of acres of rangeland, you are likely no stranger to idea overwhelm. It happens to all of us,…
The Chaordic Stepping Stones – Lifestyle Design Version
This post contains the Chaordic Stepping Stones design process rewritten for the purpose of lifestyle design and relationship nurturing. While the number of overall steps is the same and the questions are similar to the original Chaordic Stepping Stones, they have been reworded and rewritten where necessary to be pertinent to an individual, couple, or…
The Chaordic Stepping Stones
The Chaordic Stepping Stones is a simple planning process that helps create the minimal structure needed to complete a given task – from planning a full-scale broad-acre permaculture project to long-term planning to smaller projects. Excess structure often retards innovation and contribution, overloads certain individuals/components, and stifles learning, while too little structure can lead to
Team Pulse Design Process
The Team Pulse Design Process is well suited to small to medium sized groups. It’s structure allows people that share a common vision, but perhaps have vastly different strengths, weaknesses, skill sets and biases, to function as a cohesive unit in achieving the end goal of the design process. The Team Pulse Design Process emerged…
