The workshop is an introduction about how to make human settlements more sustainable and self-sufficient. You'll learn about how to integrate sustainable systems, appropriated technologies, ecobuilding, alternative economy systems, food security, recycling, and so on, with community participatory processes, thus creating ecovillages and eco-neighborhoods.

Claudio Maudane is a geographer with practice in Permaculture Design, Appropriate Technology and Decision-Making through Consensus. He is a network and community-builder between grassroots movements worldwide. He has been involved in the creation of various projects regarding sustainability and protection of natural resources. He was the representative for the northern part of South America at the Executive Council of ENA (Ecovillage Network of the Americas) for many years and he is chairman of the ENA advisory committee at this moment. He was founder of the first ecovillage in Colombia, and one of the first ones in Latin America, where he lived for around 10 years in the Darien Rainforest. He is a member of the Norwegian NGO, Change the World. He is in charge of the creation of the Fiskevollen Inspiration Center for Sustainable Development Project in the Telemark Region, Norway.

Mauricio Deliz is a computing engineer with studies in Anthropology, Social Geography, Environment and Development at the Oslo University. Formerly, he was responsible for a Permaculture research field at Geitemyra Oslo Skolehage. He has been involved in organizing several international events regarding permaculture and sustainability, and in the training and the empowerment of people at grassroots level. He has been in charge of several multifunctional structures in public areas in the Sagene District, in Oslo, made through a participatory process with youth and children. Currently, he is chairman of the organization Change the World in Oslo.