Harmonia Ecological Design Education Farm

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Turkish
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2012

What we do

STORY OF HARMONIA: HARMONIA is a multidisciplinary and nature-loving design studio established by two in love designers in 2012. It is located in a forest on mythological Mount Ida/Kazdağları. Harmonia is a regenerative practices space for mutual learning and ecological design lab in nature. Harmonia uses the land for experimenting and practicing skills towards regeneration and offers design solutions to its customers and students. Being in the ecological design field, the design studio is founded as a sustainable place with an off-grid system and the goal of Harmonia is to become more regenerative and self-sufficient in the future to become a model to be replicated as a systems design. Since Harmonia is a design studio as well as an educational institution; It has a diverse community in terms of age, education, and cultural identity.
Harmonia Vision
Harmonia carries diverse ancient cultural knowledge into the future by reinterpreting them through art, craft and design for offering regenerative design solutions.
Harmonia Mission
– Creating regenerative design solutions to bring joy and just to life in all forms. by: researching the ancient knowledge and build a bridge between past and future
– Training and supporting those committed to the wellbeing of the whole with workshops, talks, camps, councils, events.
– Designing products and services that provide social benefits and are environmentally responsible.
Harmonia has on-going research in community building among its clients and students as well. Harmonia creates books in ecological design and living to empower ecological literacy in Turkey. The first book about ecological architecture in Turkey “Traditional Architecture Techniques” was written by Melih Aşanlı the co-founder of Harmonia. After this book 2 books were written and published two, one is about workshops and the other is a work of bioregionalism “Stories of Kazdağları”.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Turkish
  • English
  • Community type
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers
  • Activities
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2012
  • Started living together

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To join our community you may attend our courses, webinars, online trainings. Some of are paid and some of are free. You may follow our instagram account @harmonia_ekotopya for updates and announcements and visit our website for a regular update.

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10 years ago

Seeds and seedlings exhange days

Seeds and seedlings exhange days Event program: -Announce starts: 01/03/2016 -Registration finish: 08/04/2016 -Location meetings: Location meetings will be held in several locations: KADIKOY : 09/04/2016 in Yeryuzu Association at 12:00-14:00 – Hasanpasa mah. Sogutlucesme Cad. No: 196/3 MERTER : 10/04/2016 in Karsi Kapi Association at 12:00-14:00 – Mete Sok. Baris Apt. B Blok No:8/6D TAKSIM : 16/04/2016 in Ek Bic Ye Ic at Gumussuyu Mahallesi, Inonu Cad. No 9/A, Beyoglu BOSTANCI : 17/04/2016 in Tohum Parki at 12:00-13:00 – 50 meter to the East direction from Bostanci Ferry Pier USKUDAR : 30/04/2016 in Kuzguncuk Bostani at 12:00-13:00 – Kuzguncuk LEVENT : 08/05/2016 in Kahve Dunyasi in Levent Carsi -12:00-13:00- Levent – Seeds and seedlings exhange day: 22/05/2016 in Yeryuzu Association at 12:00-14:00 – Hasanpasa mah. Sogutlucesme Cad. No: 196/3 Detailed info (Turkish): http://yeryuzudernegi.org/projedetay.php?id=51 Coordinators: SULE GONULSUZ sulegonulsuz@hotmail.com NURIYE KAYALI kayalinuriye@gmail.com We use local seeds and we provided those seeds from people who make organical farming. After we procure those seeds, we put them on a cycle. We organized “Seed Exchange Days”, where people could meet and exchange their seeds, their knowledge and experiences. We tried to take it one step further and we are trying to categorize the seeds. For example, -there is a bean seed. But which type of bean seed is it? Or we try to categorize the seeds according to their durabilty in which city they could grow. We believe that all the seeds in the World are people’s seeds and we want to share them with everyone.
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11 years ago

Ecotratamiento de Aguas Residuales

Agua es vida, el recurso más importante de todos. Desde la perspectiva de Sunseed como un centro educativo sobre la vida de bajo impacto nos gustaría ofrecerles un curso para aprender, profundizar e intercambiar los conocimientos teóricos y prácticos sobre el cuidado de agua. El curso va a estar enfocado principalmente en el tema de saneamiento ecológico de aguas residuales, cubriendo a la vez los aspectos teóricos de potabilización de agua y aprovechamiento de agua lluvia. Vamos a aprender como diseñar y construir un sistema completo de tratamiento de aguas grises a través de la construcción de humedales artificiales de flujo subsuperficial, en cuales se trata de la utilización de plantas acuáticas para depurar las aguas residuales que han tenido un tratamiento primario. Los humedales artificiales son canales de gravilla sembrados con las plantas depuradoras, han sido aplicadas y debidamente reguladas en varios países de Europa y ofrecen una alternativa sana y segura tanto para autogestionar los recursos de agua como poder reutilizar agua tratada en un hogar. Usando herramientas como power point, videos y charlas vamos a aprender sobre el diseño y aspectos claves para tener en cuenta construyendo nuestro sistema casero. En tiempo libre vamos a divertirnos con juegos, música y baños en una poza cercana. El curso va a estar dividido en partes teóricas y prácticas. La parte práctica va a incluir – Diseño de un sistema completo de tratamiento de aguas residuales – las tuberías, tratamiento primario (trampas de grasa y tanques sépticos), tratamiento secundario (Humedales Artificiales de Flujo Subsuperficial), riego con aguas grises. – Construcción de una trampa de grasa como el tratamiento primario – Preparación de un humedal artificial de flujo horizontal – impermeabilización y conexiones. Parte teórica va a cubrir la introducción a la potabilización de agua y aprovechamiento de agua lluvia. Para mejorar nuestra experiencia educativa vamos a definir los aspec

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