ABOUT THIS PROJECT:

Permaculture Network is a project by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Agnes Cameron, based at the organisation Sakiya. It explores the ecology of Sakiya through imagined conversations between plants, animals, soil, water, weather, and other human and non-human agents. Where possible, the simulation is grounded in the site: from its ecological, geological and topographical features, to the weather conditions and soil quality recorded.

Currently, this is a work in progress: we hope you can enjoy the site as it develops.

As we work on the project, we are collecting snapshots of the development, notes, images, reading materials and other resources using an are.na channel. If you're curious about the code, it can be found on github -- fork for your own local ecosystem.

We would particularly like to thank Sahar Qawasmi and Nida Sinnokrot for hosting us at Sakiya, Omar Tesdell and his team at Makaneyyat, upon whose studies of the site much of this project is based, and Schloss Solitude and ZKM for supporting this work.