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WATER

Principle Objective:

To encourage a holistic understanding of water management.

Learning outcomes that are useful to aim for:

• By the end of this session students will be able to:
• Explain water management in a holistic way rather than fragmentary.
• Recognise water as essential to life and life processes.
• Recognise that primary water storage takes place in the soil and therefore attention needs to be given to the soil.
• Identify strategies for reducing run-off.
• Identify strategies for increasing absorption.

Principle Objective:

To foster a basic understanding that natural regeneration processes can be understood and worked with.

Learning outcomes that are useful to aim for:

By the end of this session students will be able to:

• Explain that land is dynamic not static.
• Clearly understand and explain the principle "work with nature not against it".
• Recognise that the general pattern of natural regeneration in Britain is towards forest.
• Identify the three main factors in sustainable systems (water, soil, diversity).
• Understand and explain the concept of steering.

Principle Objective:

To encourage non-judgmental observation as the pre-requisite for good design work.

Learning outcomes that are useful to aim for:

By the end of this session students will be able to:

• Understand the importance of good observation in design work.
• Identify and remove assumptions from observations.
• Distinguish between random observations and thematic observations.
• Understand the cyclic process of observation- speculation- hypothesis- experiment- further observation.

Principle Objective:

To generate thinking which is inclusive (holistic) rather than fragmentary through the use of a simple framework that recognises interpenetration and complexity.

Learning outcomes that are useful to aim for:

By the end of this session students will be able to:

• Explain the ethics in terms of a pattern towards holistic thinking.
• Identify each ethic with simple examples.
• Demonstrate the interpenetration of ethics.
• Understand the use of the ethics as a guide to design work.

Principle Objective:

To recognise the importance of patterning as a tool in community understanding and design.

Learning outcomes that are useful to aim for:

By the end of this session students will be able to:

• Explain that community exists in the minds and activities of its members.
• Recognise similarities between patterning in environments and communities.
• Identify traditional connections within a community.
• Generate further events/activities which draw members of a community together.

Principle Objective:

Develop basic counselling skills.

Learning outcomes that are useful to aim for:

By the end of this session students will be able to:

• Understand and explain the concept of support.
• Recognise the importance of developing good listening skills.
• Recognise the importance of developing good thinking skills and modes of expression

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