Øyvind Holmstad 's Profile
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- Joined: 28/01/2011
- Last Updated: 28/01/2011
- Location: Gjøvik, Norway
- Climate Zone: Cold Temperate
- Gender: Male
- Web site: permaliv.blogspot.com/
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My Permaculture Qualifications
- Permaculture Design Course
- Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
- Teacher: Aranya Gardens
- Location: Orreviks Gård, Sweden
- Date: Jul 2011
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About Øyvind Holmstad
My life's project is to help the best I can to spread and materialize the new architectural theories developed by Christopher Alexander. Further I want to implement the principles of the German term "Baubiologie," and material ecology is one of my great interests. Third I want to make permaculture and permanent agriculture a natural part of all built environments.
Further I'm a great supporter of the commons!
I should enjoy getting in contact with other people from my region sharing my interests.
My hope for the future is that my newly born daughter can live in a permacultural world!
Interview with Stefano Serafini on Biourbanism
The design is out there already.
The World's Best Collection of Bed Alcoves
Lene, the author of the well worth visiting blog The Essence of the Good Life, has made what is probably the world's best collection of bed alcoves.
The Architect as God and Tyrant
A precise observation by James Kalb on the present situation of architecture.
Excellent Introduction to Alexander's Fifteen Fundamental Properties of Wholeness
I just found this excellent introduction to Alexander's 15 properties of life!
Follow Nikos A. Salingaros' Course on Architectural Theory Online
I'll strongly encourage all to follow this online course on architectural theory, held by one of the world's most important thinkers.
A Physical Basis for Religious Awe
Alexander has shown how spirit reveals itself through matter in the field of centers, through the transformation of the 15 properties of life and the 11 properties of color.
Our Fear of Beauty and God
Modern man's fear of beauty is rooted in a fear of God. Fear in the word's most negative sense.
Jordskip, kjernedesign hvor selveste kjernen mangler
James Alexander Arnfinsen har laget et interessant intervju med Mehdi Nodehi, lederen for Earthship Biotecture Sweden.
For Them, Every Stone Was a Gift to That Unshakable Belief in God They Shared
Can we call ourselves believers when what we are making is not a gift to God?
Michael Huesemann on the Dangers of Technological Optimism
Could the majority of our proposed technological solutions be doing little more than kicking the can down the road towards ecological collapse?
Ornament and Function are Part of One Greater Whole
The separation of ornament from function is a cosmological matter because it fits, and supports, and stems from, the mechanistic view.
Alice of Monsterland
Metropolis Magazine don't let me defend myself against Alice, but I guess most readers anyway will look through her as a hysterical modernist being stepped on her toes only. Here's my defense.
Media Concentration Infographic
Media Concentration Infographic
Christopher Alexander: A City is not a Tree
Read Christopher Alexander's famous essay from 1965; A City is not a Tree.
Rich People are Unethical
Please share this image, you can embed it from here: http://www.accountingdegreeonline.net/rich-people-are-unethical/
The Sharing Economy
Join the sharing economy revolution: www.uniiverse.com
Let's Talk About the Commons!
It’s hard to love what we don’t see, so let’s bring the commons right out into the spotlight!
Our Scientific World View is Our Death
In order to create living structure we have to regain the worldview of the 14th-century Christian monk.
Splice Slug with Building
I'm sorry to see the stupid idea of splicing has become a part of the natural building and permaculture movements.
The Battle for Ordinary Human Existence in Our Time
Upon the completion of his four-volume work, The Nature of Order, Christopher Alexander talks with Traditional Building about his vision for our future architecture.
Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 4 - Urban
Full film: Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 4 - Urban
The Relationship between Form Languages and Pattern Languages
About the Relationship between Form Languages and Pattern Languages
Interview with Nikos A. Salingaros at Manner of Man Magazine
A fantastic sad interview with a glimpse of hope, with one of our times greatest architectural theorists, professor Nikos A. Salingaros.
Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 3 - Cool climates
Full film of Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 3 - Cool climates
Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 2 - Dry lands
Full film of Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 2 - Dry lands
Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 1 - In the tropics
Full film of Bill Mollison - Global Gardener 1 - In the tropics
Christopher Alexander Lecture at Berkeley, California
I 'm going to write an introduction to this amazing lecture by Christopher Alexander last year, a must see for everyone wanting to live in a livable world. Meanwhile, share this video with all your friends!
Oslo's New York Greenwich Village?
Paul Lødøen, Managing Director of Oslo S Utvikling (development) (OSU), compares the new Barcode Wall of Bjørvika, Oslo, with New York's Greenwich Village and the Latin Quarter of Paris!?!
Orthodox Church
Why we love the orthodox church.
Aranya's Permaculture Design "Step-by-Step" - Book is Soon Out!
I just received this email from my astonishing PDC-teacher Aranya, trained as a physicist, but devoted his life to become a low income PDC-teacher rather than a highly paid scientist. A man that truly lives by his words!
Ionization and Air Quality - A Technological Study
Artificial ventilation systems reduce the amount of beneficial ions with 10% for every meter air is pumped through metal tubes. This is damaging to our health. Use natural ventilation!
The Deep Truth of a Sheltering Roof
Hopefully an upcoming article on the PRI-blog? Meanwhile I post it here. Excuse my English mistakes, this will be corrected if the post will be approved for PRI-publishing.
A Multilayered Anti-Pattern
Before our living pattern languages can conquer the world we must fight the antipatterns.
From Ideology to Technology
"The crude industrial processes that powered our world for a century or more leave us with depletion, fragmentation, and decay. Living systems can show us the way to recover and sustain the damaged systems upon which life depends."
Plater, papp & folier
Dokument i materialøkologi.
Overflatebehandling
Dokument i materialøkologi, naturlig overflatebehandling.
Lim & Klister
Dokument i materialøkologi.
The Work of Christopher Alexander Summarized
Christopher Alexander's theories and findings are among the most important for future permaculture!
Modernism & Disconnection from Life
Modernism, the most destructive ideology of the 20th century, still in the midst among us today.
Pictures from the Permaculture Course at Orreviks Gård, Sweden, Summer 2011
All pictures are free to use for every use for the participants and teachers of the course.
Hjelp "The Salingaros Group" til å hjelpe Norge!
A call from Nikos A. Salingaros to help Oslo
Jordskipenes tidsalder
Another old article, quite naive, but still with some value. Too bad just to trash it! Or what do you think? (In Scandinavian language)
Ikke ubegrensede ressurser
People live unlimited lives in a limited world, and the economists preach salvation through eternal growth. The HPI-index offers an alternative.
Naturlig ventilasjon og pustende konstruksjoner
There is no way to be whole as a human with artificial ventilation systems and sealed plastic walls, because these solutions represent the machine age and is an attack at human Biophilia. Although the article is in Norwegian it has useful English links.
Økolandsbyen
An old article I once wrote about ecovillages, but I hope it still has some relevance. (Scandinavian language)
Plast, et miljøproblem
Nylig så jeg en tankevekkende dokumentar fra BBC om hvordan plastsedimenter på havbunnen en dag vil bli til framtidas fjell, og bære vitnesbyrd om den geologiske perioden antropocen, eller menneskenes tidsalder.
Smarte barn og smartmat
A smart baby eats smart.
EU høyner grenseverdiene for giftrester i mat
EU has secretly increased the levels of legal leftovers from pesticides in our food. Here is a list of the new boundary values presented by OIKOS (in Scandinavian language).
Totenåsens Venner, stå på!
The company Havgul wants to establish an industrial park of windmills (156 m tall) in the most valuable part of Totenåsen Hills and visible from most of the region of Lake Mjøsa.
Lofoten, vår kronjuvel
Lofoten is the sponging ground for the cod fish of the Barents Sea and the North Atlantic herring grows up here, two of the world’s most important fisheries. Unfortunately the oil industry is pressing on to open it up for drilling.
A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Salingaros)
Book review
Hånddrevet Alfa vaskemaskin
Jeg prøvde denne vidunderlige hånddrevne vaskemaskinen i sommer
De 25 bygningsbiologiske prinsipper
The 25 Principles of "Baubiologie" (Building Biology) in Scandinavian language.
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