Permaculture design
The design tradition that named itself in Tasmania in the 1970s, and the writers who turned it into a curriculum taught on every continent.
Notes
Permaculture began as a collaboration between a lecturer at the University of Tasmania and a student, and its first statement was a book: Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements, published in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.
What spread was not the book but the course. Mollison founded the Permaculture Institute in 1978 and built the seventy-two-hour design certificate, a teaching format that reproduces itself — every graduate is licensed to teach the next cohort. That is why permaculture is a lineage rather than an institution, and why it reached a hundred countries without a head office.
A generation later Holmgren restated the whole thing as three ethics and twelve design principles in Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability (2002). Those twelve principles are what most people now mean by the word, and they are the version this studio works from.