Lucie Bardos
Creative Consultant

British Columbia, Canada

Top 3 Areas of Expertise:

• Community Development
• Social Permaculture
• Art and Culture

Advice for Students

“My advice to students starting this program is to try and see how they can apply what they are learning from this course into their daily lives and to practice using the “permaculture lens” to view or analyze the systems that keep the word turning. I believe that this is the best way to retain what they learn. I also think that it can give students a lot of great insight when it comes time to work on their design project!”

Bio

Lucie Bardos is a creative consultant, educator, and artist, who lives and works on the traditional unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan People in British Columbia, Canada. Over the past 15 years, Lucie has studied, worked, and lived in 5 different countries across both Europe and North America, and has had the privilege to participate in permaculture projects that took place in semi-arid, temperate oceanic, and coastal temperate rain forest climates. She has mainly been a part of projects at the home scale and at the farm scale, with a specific focus on urban and peri-urban projects.

Lucie firmly believes in the power of design and creativity as a means to problem-solve on the personal, community, and international scales. With a wealth of experience working with stakeholders across languages, cultures, and continents, Lucie loves mentoring students from around the world through her work with the Permaculture Women’s Guild. She works with students in a way that is down to Earth, and allows each student to set and meet their own unique goals. It’s no secret that permaculture can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially when students are working on their first ever design project. However, Lucie has a knack for offering gentle, targeted feedback, and for helping students identify the resources and tools they already have in order to successfully complete their designs.

• Numerous permaculture courses and workshops completed, including a Permaculture Design Certificate (2015)
• MSc in Critical Sustainability Studies (Human Ecology) from Lund University (2015)
• Member of the Permaculture Women’s Guild teaching faculty since 2018
• Contributing author to various online publications focused on sustainability or permaculture
• 10+ years of professional experience working with non-profits, businesses, schools, and community groups in the fields of community development and permaculture
• Co-founder and co-director of Rhizome Eco-Social Education Society (2020), a permaculture-based non-profit in Kelowna, BC

Recent Articles

• Why Teaching is my Jam
• Why You Should Plant Calendula
• At The Intersection of Permaculture and Degrowth
• Towards a Socially Sustainable Permaculture – Some Practical Steps
• Re-imagining Economic Systems

Hourly tutoring rate: $100.

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