Permaculture Toolbox

Frameworks

Principles

Tools

Examples of where tools are commonly used in a design process

REMEMBER – there are no concrete rules about this. These are just suggestions! If it is useful for you to use a tool differently in a different place you should go for it. I have used SADIMET framework to do this but the tools would populate other frameworks in a similar way

James Turner has created a great directory of what tools he uses where / how which you can access here.

SURVEY
Client Interview – what do the want? What might be the reality of context?
Sphere of Influence
PMI
Six Thinking Hats
Soil Sampling
PASTE
DAFOR
Scale of Permanence
Sector Analysis
Nine Ways of Observing
Mapping of Any Kind
ANALYSIS
McHarg’s Exclusion
Limiting Factors
Random Assembly
Functions / Systems / Elements
Sector Analysis
Patterns in Nature
Zoning
SMART Goals

DESIGN
McHarg’s Exclusion
Limiting Factors
Random Assembly
Holistic Context
Functions / Systems / Elements
Scale of Permanence
Zoning
SMART Goals
IMPLEMENT/MAINTAIN
Action Plans
Timelines
Budgets
EVALUATE / TWEAK
PMI
Six Thinking Hats
I Like, I Wish, I wonder
WILD CARDS

Principles and Ethics can be moved around to any stage of a framework where ever you feel they have most value!