One of the most sought after speakers Prof. Kennedy is an expert on Sustainability will be featured in our presentation series. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Declan Kennedy, is an Irish architect, urban planner, permaculture designer and ecologist, co-founder of the Permaculture Institute of Europe and of the Global Village Network (GEN). co-fournder of Gaia University. He has been teaching and practising ecological urban design since 1972 and permaculture for the past 20 years and was Professor of Urban Design and Infrastructure at the Architectural Department of the Technical University of Berlin. Presently, he is doing the urban design for the first full-pledged ecological settlement in Ireland. He now teaches eco-village design from the ecological community Lebensgarten Steyerberg, Lower Saxony, Germany where he and Margrit live and which they co-founded in 1985. He is Author: Permaculture and the sustainable city "A design method abandoning the linear sectoral organization of human support systems and creating linkages between the various elements - each enhancing the function of the others - similar to the way in which highly developed organisms work" This is a rear event please dont miss it.
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