PERMACULTURE MOVEMENT

The project creates spaces where participants can use permaculture theory and practice to co-design meaningful and innovative pathways forward. Instead of relying on hierarchical models,  we cultivate participatory leadership, valuing each individual’s skills, perspectives, and creativity. In this way, crises become opportunities for growth, and uncertainty becomes a driver of collective innovation.

Main topics:

1.    Permaculture as a design backbone, offering practical tools and principles such as Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share to design your organisations/working environments as resilient living systems.
2.    Art as a catalyst and communication tool, using theatre, contact improvisation, land art, and storytelling to process challenges, strengthen empathy, and make permaculture accessible and inspiring.
3.    Non-hierarchical leadership practices, including Dragon Dreaming, The Way of Council, and cooperative decision-making methods that foster shared responsibility, dialogue, and consent-based processes.

Permaculture Movement I. and II.

The entire project will last two years and consists of two in-person activities and several online meetings.

●The first in-person activity will take place from 29th of July till 7th of August 2026. It will include an introduction to permaculture and participants will learn the basics of permaculture design, which they will then apply to specific sites in their countries, organizations, or communities. The program will be enriched with artistic, movement and self-care practices such as contact improvisation, theatre, and eco-somatics.

● The second in-person activity will take place one year later. Participants will present the implementation of their designs carried out in their home countries. The main part of the program will focus on co-creation and preparation of an artistic performance for Atmosféra Festival 2027, where the project and permaculture will be presented to the wider public through an artistic performance. This will be done under the guidance of experienced artists and performers.