Orientador: Marília Freitas de Campos Tozoni Reis / Banca: Daniele Cristina de Souza / Banca: Marcos Sorrentino / Banca: Arthur Schmidt Nanni / Banca: Fernando Silveira Franco / Resumo: A Permacultura, assim como a educação ambiental e outras ações em resposta ao aprofundamento das crises socioambientais inerentes ao modo capitalista de produção, é um movimento que tem se expandido e agido em prol de uma transformação da realidade. As ações de caráter educativo são essenciais para sua disseminação, entre as quais se destacam os Cursos de Design em Permacultura (PDCs). Como um movimento recente no Brasil, ela carece de estudos acadêmicos que abordem como seu ensino tem se dado. Assim, este trabalho buscou analisar o ensino de Permacultura no Brasil, com foco nos PDCs e em cursos de formação de educadores/as que atuam em ambos os cursos. Para tal, realizamos um mapeamento nacional desses cursos e dos/as educadores/as atuantes nos PDCs, coletando dados de ordem quantitativa e qualitativa. Tivemos como base teórico-metodológica o Materialismo Histórico-Dialético e entendemos este trabalho como uma Pesquisa-Ação Participativa. No mapeamento, encontramos 38 grupos que oferecem PDCs no Brasil, contando com a atuação de 210 educadores/as, além de 3 grupos que oferecem cursos de formação de educadores/as de PDC. Os dados indicam que, atualmente, a Permacultura se configura como um campo de disputa, com ações de caráter contraditório e heterogêneo quanto a seu ensino. Se, por um lado, apresenta bases teórico-metodológicas que buscam a superação do modo capitalista de produção, como a busca por metodologias de ensino ativas, participativas e horizontais, por outro não ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The rise of globalization has profoundly changed the dynamics of the organization, and with the increase of the competition due to the wide diversity of the market, it has demanded an adjustment in labor relations. The Internal Communication has gained prominence in this scenario, being one of the driving factors to reach interest among the others, through construction of new means that will stimulate engagement, motivation, quality of life, and feelings, such as belonging. The communication ceases to be just a tool, to become a strategic means between the organization and its public, bringing together and increasingly positive image for the market, and better productive results. In this way, the employee becomes more valued and his/her well-being a priority, through the actions of the company that seeks to recognize and motivate them, increasing their engagement. The Internal Communication receives this role aligning expectations and paths with the organization, designing an advantageous possibility for both sides, since they are dependent. This research seeks to analyze how the Internal Communication participates in the engagement of the internal public, and how this can affect the vision and disposition that the employees have in it. Thus, for a better understanding, the scenario of a multinational was analyzed, Ambev, that despite having global campaigns, it is understood that local actions of communication affect more its internal public. Using, among other means partici... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

This thesis is an investigation into how land evolves into an architectural presence and representation to reconnect physical construction with social realities, human perception, and environmental considerations. As buildings lose their plasticity and their connection with the surroundings both physically and psychologically, they become isolated in the cool and distant realm of vision, lacking authenticity of material and tectonic logic in their construction. Landform architecture, which allows land to be engaged in an architectural representation, penetrates multi-dimensional architectural meaning through the manipulation of space, material, and structure. The built form of landform architecture is fundamentally developed from articulations of the terrain, but it transcends the topography in that it suggests and strengthens the potential relationship between physical construction and the outside world, thus allowing an enriched value to be attached to this emerging architectural typology. The project that I develop will illustrate how landform buildings bridge artificial and natural constructions with enriched state of sensory and cognitive engagement as enmeshed experience in campus complex design. Most importantly, I will integrate energy saving approaches and other sustainable strategies through extractions from and extensions to the land. Instead of studying landform architecture as a novel building form, attention will be paid to the wide range of potentials that can be nourished in its future development. Reflections on the moral, technological, and design issues that enable landform architecture to perform an intensified articulation of reality is of great importance to the exploration of effective design methodologies that are able to generate the intensified interactions between human beings and buildings as framed by post-phenomenologists. The design project is located in UMass Amherst, working as a campus complex to facilitate students and community member’s mingling, as well as the continuation of New England’s agriculture tradition. Permaculture theme guides the development of building programs and the evolvement of building form. By combining both passive design strategies and active design strategies, the building will work as a multifunctional campus facility which contributes to agricultural research, community involvement, and interactions between human beings and the nature.

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The current paradigm in the field of architecture today is one of degeneration and obsolete building technologies. Regenerative architecture is the practice of engaging the natural world as the medium for, and generator of the architecture. It responds to and utilizes the living and natural systems that exist on a site that become the “building blocks” of the architecture. Regenerative architecture has two focuses; it is an architecture that focuses on conservation and performance through a focused reduction on the environmental impacts of a building. This paper introduces regenerative architecture as a means for architectural design. I present the Nine Principles of Regenerative Architecture and Place Analysis Criteria, which I developed in order to provide a logical and succinct means for creating regenerative architecture. These are employed and embedded in the creation of the R_Urban Intervention Dwelling model and tested on the Coop House design project. The result was an architectural design in which the Nine Principles of Regenerative Architecture are embodied through the application of the Place Analysis Criteria process. Though the process underwent many mutations through its infancy, the final product has proven to work in producing successful and potentially regenerative architecture as described in part 1 of this paper.

Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Timothy D. Keane / Urbanization has lead to environmental degradation in most of the world’s great cities. With the degradation of natural systems comes a reliance on man-made and engineered systems to perform functions vital to cities such as water treatment, the filtering of pollutants, flood mitigation, temperature control, and erosion prevention; functions formerly performed by natural systems. Relying on man-made operations to perform essential services comes at a cost, both in terms of monetary costs and in the resources needed to construct and operate them. New Orleans is a prime example of a city that has greatly altered the ecosystems that formerly existed on the site and has had to rely on human engineering for its survival. Instead of the mosaic of freshwater marshes, wooded swamps, wet meadows, and bottomland forests that once comprised New Orleans and allowed for the diffusion, evaporation, and infiltration of floodwater; present day New Orleans has had to rely on a system of levees and pumps to keep the City dry. These pumps and levees have allowed New Orleans to expand and prosper but failures in the flood control system have also lead to great disasters, Hurricane Katrina and the related flood in 2004 being the latest. Implementing permaculture designs to New Orleans will buffer the City from the effects of hurricanes and flooding and decrease its reliance on city services. These permaculture designs recreate key elements of the natural systems that formerly existed in New Orleans and attempt to again create spaces in the City were stormwater can safely be detained without damaging property and that allow the stormwater to infiltrate into the soil. At the same time these permaculture designs would enhance the character and uniqueness that makes New Orleans one of the world’s great cities.

There are currently numerous alternative food production models that may have potential to contribute substantially to improved environmental sustainability. However, such alternatives are not well studied, particularly within the context of the Canadian Prairies. To increase knowledge in this area, this thesis performed a preliminary agronomic trial for food grain production in intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium), investigating the effects of legume intercropping and residue management. Mean grain yields were 520 and 447 kg/ha in 2014 and 2015, respectively, and a significant yield increase was observed following grazing with sheep. A series of farm case studies were also conducted in order to characterize ecological farming approaches on the Canadian prairies. The most consistent strategy among the farms was to increase diversity in multiple facets for both environmental and economic benefit, including more crop and livestock species, system and landscape components, and marketing strategies. / October 2016

Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning / Laurence A. Clement, Jr. / Our current agricultural system in the U.S. involves procedures that appear to maintain high levels of productivity. However, the long-term outlook regarding this system indicates an overall degradation of the ecological resources that generate the abundance of agricultural products to which we are accustomed (Lyle, 1994). This project applies sustainable food production strategies specifically addressed in permaculture as a regenerative alternative to industrial agriculture to a site on the Kansas State University campus. This research initiative quantifies the productive benefits of sustainable agriculture in providing for the Derby Dining Hall, and illustrates how sustainable food production strategies can be shaped through landscape form and space in ways that connect people with ecologically sound food production. The literature review addressed landscape architecture theory and sustainable agriculture. In addition, a set of interviews as well as three precedent studies helped to focus project considerations and to inform design decision-making. The site design process comprised the primary method for exploration and subsequent development of conclusions. The first two design iterations were performed with a specific focus on garden productivity and then garden form, with the third acting as a synthesis of the first two. The final plan suggests that there is a potential for a positive didactic experience of sustainable food production through the artful synthesis of landscape form, particularly with regard to carefully arranged circulation patterns. In addition it was found that, given the average growing season rainfall of 3 inches per month, the water harvested from the roofs of Moore and West residence halls can support over 7,300 square feet of intensive produce beds with a 1 inch per week application rate. In regard to food production, select non-bulk items on Derby Dining Hall’s menu (e.g. Parsley, Garlic, Basil, Kale, Radishes, Turnips, & Oregano) can be provided for or supplemented entirely, given the designed array of produce in the proposed gardens. It would appear that incorporating permaculture and organic farming strategies into the campus fabric would facilitate K-State Housing and Dining’s efforts to promote healthy food -- and sustainable thinking -- by increasing the variety, freshness and interest of its menu.

A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo elaborar um mapeamento dos grupos de permacultura em atividade no Brasil construído a partir de um formulário online autodeclaratório, entrevistas e vivências de campo. Foram levantados dados quantitativos e qualitativos, e desenvolvida uma análise crítica do \"estado da arte\" da permacultura no Brasil a partir de seus grupos e promotores, bem como de suas práticas, que foram debatidas à luz de referenciais da teoria crítica, trazendo à tona este ainda pouco conhecido conceito e expondo alguns dos principais desafios para sua difusão. Concebida em meados dos anos 1970 pelos australianos Bill Mollison e David Holmgren, a permacultura é um sistema de design conectado à criação de assentamentos humanos sustentáveis e à edificação de \'um outro mundo possível\', balizado por técnicas e preceitos éticos específicos, distintos dos hegemônicos. O agravamento da crise socioambiental contemporânea, somado à notória ascensão do discurso ecológico que ganha espaço na mídia e nos mercados, faz com que a permacultura - e todo um conjunto de novas práticas consideradas \'verdes\', \'alternativas\' e sustentáveis - ganhem centralidade e atenção, tornando-se palco de uma disputa que, por um lado, visa torná-las mais um item comercializável e, por outro, as enxerga como possibilidades concretas para edificação de uma outra sociedade, mais justa, harmônica e igualitária, entendendo-as como incompatíveis aos ditames e necessidades do mercado capitalista. Alguns grupos defendem que a cooptação das práticas da permacultura transformadas em mercadoria reduziria seu potencial transformador, além de criar barreiras para sua popularização. No entanto, a sustentabilidade financeira apresenta-se também como um desafio àqueles e àquelas que dedicam suas vidas à prática e a difusão da permacultura. Tomando por base a combinação citada entre pesquisa bibliográfica, documental, entrevistas e trabalho de campo, buscou-se aqui, avaliar e discutir os caminhos e perspectivas para a popularização da permacultura no Brasil. / The present research had the objective of elaborating a mapping of the groups of permaculture in activity in Brazil constructed from an online selfdeclaration form, interviews and field experiences. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and a critical analysis of the \"state of the art\" of permaculture in Brazil was developed from its groups and promoters, as well as their practices, which were debated in the light of critical theory references, bringing to the surface this still little known concept and exposing some of the main challenges for its diffusion. Conceived in the mid-1970s by australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, permaculture is a design system connected to the creation of sustainable human settlements and the building of \'another possible world\', marked by specific ethical techniques and precepts, distinct from the hegemonic ones. The aggravation of the contemporary social and environmental crisis, together with the notorious rise of the ecological discourse that gains space, media and markets, makes permaculture - and a whole set of new practices considered \'green\', \'alternative\' and sustainable - gain centrality and attention, becoming the scene of a dispute that, on the one hand, aims to make them one more marketable item and, on the other hand, sees them as concrete possibilities for the construction of another society, more just, harmonius and egalitarian, understanding them as incompatible with the dictates and needs of the capitalist market. Some groups argue that the cooptation of permaculture practices transformed into commodities would reduce their transformative potential, as well as create barriers to their popularization, the focus of the present study. However, financial sustainability also presents itself as a challenge to those who dedicate their lives to the practice and diffusion of permaculture. Based on the cited combination between bibliographical research, documentary, interviews and field work, we sought to evaluate and discuss the paths and perspectives for the popularization of permaculture in Brazil.

Fruto da junção dos ideais e da contração das palavras \"agricultura\" e \"permanência\", a Permacultura é uma filosofia que consiste em um conjunto de princípios de design para a \"criação permacultural do espaço\", baseando-se no manejo altamente eficiente e, ao mesmo tempo, ético e ambientalmente sustentável da terra, em assentamentos humanos. A Permacultura é baseada na união de técnicas ancestrais com as novas tecnologias, que promovem a autossuficiência de comunidades, por meio do plantio agroecológico, bioconstrução, captação e tratamento da água da chuva, produção e uso de energias sustentáveis, entre outras ações que compõem a gama de princípios e técnicas práticas da Permacultura. No Brasil, o movimento teve início oficial em 1992, a partir da realização do primeiro curso de formação de Permacultura por Bill Mollison e Scott Pittman, em Porto Alegre, na ECO 92, na mesma década em que também se consolidou no mundo. Frente a uma notável importância social e cultural que a Permacultura vem conquistando ao longo dos últimos anos, para além de sua esfera ambiental e política, no Brasil e no mundo, a pesquisa objetivou verificar como ocorre e é praticada a Permacultura, enquanto cultura alternativa e, no caso, urbana - pelas organizações e grupos presentes e atuantes no Município de São Paulo. A metodologia consistiu em: breve revisão bibliográfica sobre os Estudos Culturais, sobre o processo histórico de expansão urbana do Município e da revisão conceitual sobre o próprio objeto de estudo: a Permacultura; na compilação do Estado da Arte da Permacultura no Brasil, clareando como e em quais linhas as pesquisas nacionais na área estão caminhando; no levantamento de dados e formulação de um quadro das organizações e grupos de Permacultura atuantes no Município, o qual foi a base para o mapa online interativo que foi elaborado e para a realização de entrevistas semi estruturadas abertas e registro em diário de campo com 6 das 38 organizações identificadas, as quais foram registradas em audiovisual, possibilitando também a produção de um mini documentário sobre a Permacultura no Município de São Paulo. Assim, a ocorrência de um fenômeno sociocultural de contracultura foi confirmada, baseando-se em valores compartilhados e traços de identidade cultural que, ao se convergirem, se conectam e se materializam por meio de ações no espaço urbano, fortalecendo vínculos entre atores e a formação de uma rede que promove a expansão do movimento de Permacultura em São Paulo / As a result of the combination of ideals and the contraction of the words \"agriculture\" and \"permanence\", Permaculture is a philosophy that consists of a set of design principles for the \"permacultural creation of space\", based on highly efficient management, at the same time, ethical and environmentally sustainable land in human settlements. Permaculture is based on the union of ancestral techniques with the new technologies, which promote the self-sufficiency of communities, through agroecological planting, bio-construction, rainwater harvesting and treatment, production and use of sustainable energy, among other actions that make up the range of principles and practical techniques of Permaculture. In Brazil, the movement began officially in 1992, starting with the first Permaculture training course by Bill Mollison and Scott Pittman, in Porto Alegre, at ECO 92, in the same decade in which it also consolidated in the world. In the face of a remarkable social and cultural importance that Permaculture has been conquering over the last few years, in addition to its environmental and political spheres, in Brazil and in the world, this research was aimed at verifying how Permaculture occurs and is practiced as an alternative culture by the organizations and groups presents and active in the Municipality of São Paulo. The methodology consisted of: a brief bibliographic review on Cultural Studies, on the historical process of urban expansion of the Municipality and the conceptual revision on the object of study: Permaculture; in the compilation of the State of the Art of Permaculture in Brazil, clarifying how and in what lines the national surveys in the area are moving; in the data collection and formulation of a table of permaculture organizations and groups operating in the Municipality, which was the basis for the interactive online map that was elaborated and for semi structured open interviews and field diary registration with 6 of the 38 organizations identified, which were recorded in audiovisual, also enabling the production of a mini documentary on Permaculture in the Municipality of São Paulo. Thus, the occurrence of a socio-cultural counterculture phenomenon has been confirmed, based on shared values and traits of cultural identity that, when converging, are connected and materialized through actions in the urban space, strengthening ties between actors and the formation of a network that promotes the expansion of the Permaculture movement in São Paulo

A presente pesquisa visa compreender e analisar criticamente o discurso de sustentabilidade e as práticas constitutivas da permacultura, debatendo tanto o potencial que elas podem oferecer à construção de um utopismo dialético norteado por uma nova práxis ambiental, como as contradições geradas a partir de sua inserção em uma sociedade capitalista, orientada pelo lucro e pela tendência geral em transformar todas as coisas em mercadorias. Pensada originalmente na década de 1970 pelos australianos Bill Mollison e David Holmgren, a permacultura diz respeito à criação de assentamentos humanos sustentáveis e resilientes, feita com base em princípios e técnicas específicos. A partir da década de 1990 paralelamente à ascensão e à globalização do neoliberalismo tem sido verificado um novo boom na eclosão e disseminação de experiências comunitaristas alternativas e sustentáveis, muitas das quais baseadas na permacultura, o que é sintomático do atual estágio da geografia histórica do capitalismo, apontando de um lado para a crise estrutural e multifacetada experimentada nos dias de hoje, e, de outro, para a urgência em se buscar formas distintas de sociabilizar-se e de relacionar-se com a natureza. Sustenta-se que estas experiências configuram a etapa mais recente de um fenômeno cujas origens podem ser rastreadas na segunda metade do século XIX e que aqui se denomina contraculturas espaciais, ou seja, microexperimentos de organização e produção socioespacial, geralmente de caráter comunitarista, que nascem como tentativas de subversão à ordem dominante, onde o nível privado e a esfera do cotidiano ganham primazia e tornam-se o lócus privilegiado no qual são experimentadas e desenvolvidas técnicas, práticas e solidariedades distintas daquelas que conformam a lógica homogeneizante, individualista e alienante encabeçada pela produção capitalista do espaço. Essas espacializações alternativas são expressões essencialmente modernas e urbanas que costumam surgir com mais força e visibilidade em momentos de crise de reprodução do sistema. Tendo por base a combinação entre pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e entrevistas com seus fomentadores, bem como a realização de trabalhos de campo junto a experiências de permacultura localizadas na Argentina, no Brasil e no Chile, buscar-se-á aqui, a partir do exame crítico do sistema produtivo permacultural, discutir as possibilidades e os limites apresentados pelas contemporâneas contraculturas espaciais à construção de uma sociedade mais igualitária e ecológica. / The present investigation aims to critically understand and analyze the speech of sustainability and the constitutive practices of the permaculture, debating the potential that they offer to the construction of a dialectical utopianism orientated by a new environmental praxis; as well as the contradictions produced from its insertion in a capitalist society geared to profit and to the general tendency in turning all the things into goods. Originally thought in the decade of 1970 by the Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the permaculture concerns the creation of sustainable and resilient human settlements, based on specific principles and techniques. From the decade of 1990 in parallel with the consolidation of neoliberalism a new boom in the outbreak and dissemination of alternative and sustainable communal experiences has been observed, many of them based on permaculture, which turns out to be symptomatic of the current state of the historical geography of the capitalism. This concept points, on the one hand, to the structural and multifaceted crisis experienced nowadays; and, on the other hand, to the urgency of searching for different forms of socialize and interact with nature. It has been argued that these experiences constitute the most recent stage of a phenomenon whose origins can be traced to the second half of the nineteenth century. Here they are referred to as spatial countercultures, or, in other words, micro-experiments of socio-spatial organization and production generally of communal character. Such micro-experiments are usually born as attempts to subvert the dominant order, where the private and everyday life spheres acquire primacy and become a privileged locus where they are experienced and developed techniques, practices and solidarities; different from those that conform the homogenizing, individualistic and alienating logic represented by the capitalism production of space. Notably, these alternatives are essentially modern and urban expressions that usually arise with more strength and visibility at moments where the system faces crisis in its reproduction. Based on a combination between literature and documentary research, interviews with their developers, and fieldworks to permaculture experiences located in Argentina, Brazil and Chile; this investigation aims to critically address the permaculture system of production, discussing the possibilities and limitations that this type of spatial contemporary countercultures offer for the construction of a more egalitarian and ecological society.