PermaFuturos Methodology Blueprint
PermaFuturos is a radical citizen social science project. It offers a regenerative research and design methodology that empowers local communities to address their climate resilience challenges. PermaFuturos stands for permanent community futures, and its methods embrace the holistic permaculture framework. We support communities to unite around the challenges they jointly face. We guide communities to unpack the deep complexities behind these challenges, making complexity tangible, and through this collective process we activate the power of community diversity. Citizens contribute their heritage knowledge, skills, backgrounds, and lived experiences. In a community, everyone matters; our role is to bring community potential to light through collective research and futures design.
The Blueprint is an accessible Introduction to the Permafuturos Systems Research and Design Methodology. It provides concrete ´To Do´ steps for each phase and shares key lessons learned from our Living Labs.
It:
- explains how we have translated the holistic permaculture approach into a systems research and design methodology that fosters locally owned regenerative climate resilience action;
- introduces the methods we use to engage civil society in regenerative approaches to climate resilience; offers insights into different use cases and the conditions needed to maximise impact;
- provides previews of the materials used for online and offline facilitation;
- shares important lessons learned from the communities we have worked with.
This Blueprint is designed for citizen social scientists, community guardians, engaged policymakers, and anyone interested in participatory regeneration-centred systems research and design to address climate resilience challenges.
This document is an output of the Cultiva Lab PermaFuturos project funded by IMPETUS (project ID 101058677).
Publish information
| Year of publication: | 2025 |
| License: | Creative Commons Attribution Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license |
| DOI: | https://zenodo.org/records/17998324 |