Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) is:
An education where a thorough and objective assessment of the planet state is followed by regional, community, and place-based solutions.
• An education that empowers individuals and communities with the knowledge for shaping their worlds and becoming more self-reliant while engaging in bioregional as well as international cooperation.
• An education where investigating theory is followed by practical application.
• An education that informs and inspires community-based visions of a sustainable human civilization as well as the means to turn such visions into reality.
Ecovillage Design Education is oriented to: Community leaders in ecovillages as well as rural and urban communities, students with an interest in sustainable design, educators wishing to develop new skills and perspectives, urban and rural planning professionals, architects, engineering careers, permaculture and horticultural researchers and designers, renewable technologists, business leaders interested in social and environmental responsibility.
So far the EDE curriculum has been applied in a variety of different programs. In Bolivia it is possible to take a semester diploma over 5 months where the EDE makes 3/5 of the whole semester having 1 month at the beginning to learn Spanish and become immerse in the culture and 1 month after the EDE to make an actual design in a national park, farm or hotel. The diploma includes 5 study trips to different ecosystems inside Bolivia in order to give students a unique possibility to travel while studying.
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