Robyn Francis

Creative Solutions for a Post Carbon World  • International Permaculture Design & Consulting Services for Sustainable Development


At the cutting edge of international design, consulting and training services for sustainable developments, Robyn Francis brings a wealth of professional experience in sustainable systems planning and design accumulated over 25 years.
Visionary, yet intensely practical, Robyn has a unique capacity to cut through to the core issues and essence of a project/situation to facilitate achievable outcomes and design strategies for sustainable developments which meet ecological, social, cultural and economic objectives.

Key Consulting Services:

Strategic Planning
- planning, design and development principles and guidelines for integrated interdisciplinary approach to meet best practice ESD principles adapted to specific site, nature of development, catchment and cultural context

Master Planning
- interdisciplinary team work/facilitation to optimise integrated ecological and social planning approach to project concepts, themes and relative location of land use systems, infrastructure, soft and hard landscape parameters within strategic planning framework

Concept Planning
- develop concepts for development design components, elements and staging within context of strategic and master planning framework including functional parameters and directives for detail design and construction plans

Detail Design
- supervise and review development of detail designs for public and private landscapes, implementation guidelines and strategies

Community Resource Management Consultancy
- input into and review of resident by-laws regarding community land and landscape management under Community Title, Strata Title and Rural Land Sharing Communities (MO) frameworks, community governance and decision-making processes and protocols

Facilitation
- creative design and planning process facilitation for interdisciplinary team work (e.g. strategic & master planning), community consultation processes and community participatory design. Participatory facilitation processes include Imagineering the Future, Cultural Mapping, Affinity Matrix, Speak-Out Forums, Pattern Quest and Parallel Thinking.

Professional Development Education Services
- Innovative approaches to integrated design, Francis provides Professional Development seminars and workshops for developers, consulting teams, design professionals, project managers on integrated ecological design, pattern systems, social ecology in the physical landscape, inter-disciplinary team building and creative problem solving processes.

Other education and training services

Robyn Francis:

Award-winning international permaculture pioneer, designer, educator, presenter and innovator, Erda Institute’s principal tutor draws on 25 years of permaculture work throughout Australia and overseas. Robyn was founding director Permaculture International Ltd (PIL) in 1987, designer and creator of Djanbung Gardens, Australia’s leading permaculture centre, and was member of the National Reference Group which developed the Accredited Permaculture Training™ (APT) for Permaulture International.

Robyn has dedicated the past 25 years to empowering people to be effective agents of change. Her students include some of permacultures leading teachers and activists. Robyn walks her talk at Djanbung Gardens and you will find below a summary of her Curriculum Vitae and some of the key projects she has been involved in over the years. To meet the team of co-teachers working with Robyn at Djanbung Gardens click here