Sesssion 6

Date: 23 May

Speakers: Silvia Corna & Haytham Kanaan 

Topic: Oases of Resilience — Land, Community & Living Knowledge

  • Discover how farming and ecological design can be acts of resilience and community revival
  • Learn how traditional ecological knowledge can be bridged with permaculture practice
  • Reflect on real field experiences from Palestine to remote European villages
  • Explore Social Permaculture as a framework for weaving humans back into the web of life

Content

 
 
As the closing session of the course, this gathering is also an open door, welcoming anyone curious about permaculture and its role in building resilient communities, whether they have followed the full course or are joining for the very first time.

Through two very different yet deeply connected stories, this session brings together land, people and living knowledge. From a farm in historic Palestine functioning as a laboratory for ecological and cultural liberation, to remote villages across Europe where Social Permaculture is quietly reviving human and ecological connections both speakers invite us to look at permaculture not just as a design tool, but as a way of being in relation with the land and with each other.

Haytham Kanaan will share the story of Nabat Ecological Farm and its practice of rooting agricultural solutions in traditional heritage, local community and political consciousness. Silvia Corna will then bring her experience as an agroecological educator weaving bridges between generations, cultures and knowledge systems with humans always understood as part of the web of life, not separate from it.

Together, their stories trace a common thread: that resilience is not built alone, but grown through oases of practice, memory, and connection scattered across the world.