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Permaculture x Complex Adaptive Systems
YSI Workshop Permaculture x CAS
Start time:
March 13 @ 8:00 am - March 15 @ 5:00 pm
IST
Location:
Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, Zahee, Telangaga, 502246
Type:
Workshop
How to attend
Speakers
Devendra N Gupta
National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS). Holds engineering degree from IIT Roorkee (1987) and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi (2012). In Ph.D. program, applied System Approach and System Dynamics Modelling to determine Public Policy in the Renewable Energy sector. Retired from Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Narsanna Koppula
AAranya Agricultural Alternatives
Sneha Koppula
Aranya Agricultural Alternatives
Local Partners
Description
This is a workshop where the end goal is to create new knowledge. Particularly, the goal is to place two different lineages of systems thinking in dialogue and observe what emerges for new economic thinking. The first method is Complex Adaptive Systems, which is highly stylised, model-driven, and data-based, emphasising abstraction, feedback loops, and prediction. The other is permaculture, which is grounded, ecological, and practice-led, emphasising observation, relationships, and design in real landscapes. Bringing these two approaches together allows tensions to surface between representation and lived systems, optimisation and care, control and responsiveness. Rather than privileging one over the other, the workshop treats their interaction as generative. The aim is not synthesis in advance, but the possibility that new economic insights arise precisely from holding these methods side by side and allowing participants to think across scales, disciplines, and forms of knowing.
The event spans from 13th March to 16th March, 2026. Please note that is might take you extra days to travel, since the location is remote.
Three-Day Workshop: Systems Thinking for New Economic Imagination
Day 1: Seeing Living Systems (Permaculture Grounding)
| Time | Session | Description | Facilitator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30–7:30 | Morning Walk & Observation | Slow walk to observe land, water, vegetation, labour rhythms | Narsanna & Sneha |
| 7:30–9:00 | Breakfast & Rest | — | — |
| 9:00–10:30 | Permaculture as Systems Thinking |
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