Processes for connected design
A framework gives a design process enough structure to remain accountable without pretending that living situations are linear. These pages explain the purpose, stages, lineage and limits of each published framework.
15 published resources
Lineage before acronym
The collection now balances externally rooted processes with Mark D’Cruz’s documented applications. Every page states what is inherited, what changed, what Mark applied and what remains uncertain.
Framework orientation
Assess ethics, evidence, participation, iteration, implementation, maintenance and adaptation rather than acronym alone.
Read What Makes a Useful Permaculture Design Framework? →Framework guidance
Compare, adapt or construct a framework without surrendering ethics, evidence or review.
Read Choosing a Permaculture Design Framework →Living framework
Explore Looby Macnamara’s connected, non-linear framework for reflection, integration and action.
Read The Design Web →Permaculture process
Use SADIMET iteratively and keep the pre-existing GoSADIMET adaptation distinct from Mark’s work.
Read SADIMET and GoSADIMET →Compact process
Collect, evaluate, apply permaculture principles and plan while keeping GoCEAPER separate.
Read CEAP →Framework lineage
Follow an inherited design-process family and Mark’s documented use without claiming authorship.
Read OBREDIM, OBREDIMET and GOBRADIMET →Keyline planning
Understand P. A. Yeomans’ original planning order and distinguish later permaculture adaptations.
Read Yeomans’ Scale of Permanence →Organisational change
Use strengths-focused inquiry without allowing appreciation to erase harm, conflict or disconfirming evidence.
Read Appreciative Inquiry →Coaching framework
Move through Goal, Reality, Options and Will or Way Forward while retaining the model’s coaching lineage.
Read GROW →Social permaculture
Enter Abrah Dresdale’s authored approach without conflating it with regenerative design as a wider field.
Read Regenerative Design for Changemakers →Learning framework
Use live questions, evidence, reflection and integration to choose the next responsible step.
Read Designing an Action Learning Pathway →Mark adaptation
Mark D’Cruz’s structured route through goals, evidence, analysis, patterns, evaluation and reflection, adapted from CEAP.
Read GoCEAPER →Mark synthesis
Mark D’Cruz’s documented ethical and psychological overlay on SADIMET.
Read PERMA-SADIMET →Mark adaptation
Mark D’Cruz’s regenerative-silviculture adaptation of the relevant DREAM process.
Read GODREAMET →Mark and AI-assisted working framework
A framework acronym developed by Mark D’Cruz with AI assistance for regenerative animal-system design.
Read GRAZER →