Radical Citizen Science: Ditching tech-solutionism through Permaculture-Powered Climate Resilience

Climate resilience cannot be designed top-down. It must be researched and shaped by the communities living with its impacts. This hands-on workshop introduces PermaFuturos, a radical citizen social science methodology that translates the holistic permaculture framework into an accessible systems research and design process, making complexity tangible and locally owned.

Participants are introduced to PermaFuturos through concrete examples from rural communities in Spain, where citizens co-led research into deeply felt climate resilience challenges.

The workshop then moves into practice. Working with PermaFuturos tools, participants explore climate resilience under techno-capitalism from a systemic perspective: not as isolated fixes, but as interconnected contexts. Together we identify root causes, map interdependencies, and reflect on how technology can support regenerative futures when embedded in community realities.

Rather than consultation, PermaFuturos enables citizen-led research—activating local knowledge, diversity, and agency to move beyond techno-solutionism toward community-driven climate resilience.