Together with the students and the teachers of the Master “Saperi in Transizione” (organised by the Universities of Verona, Trento and Parma) we visited the transition town of San Lazzaro in the outskirts of Bologna and the school of permaculture held at the communal gardens “Le Serre” in the city of Bologna.

We discovered that the permaculture movement originated in Australia and that the concept of “permaculture” can be applied not only to understand synergies between herbs and plants in a vegetable garden, but also to analyse and solve communicational conflicts among human beings. The founding principles in permaculture, in fact, stress the opportunities emerging from collaboration, mutual help and collective dreaming/planning.

To browse the photo gallery of the two-day workshop click here (photo credits: Francesco Vittori).