NuMundo - Panta Rei

About.

The Panta Rei project’s first impulse came from the will to recover the potential lying dormant in a plot of degraded and abandoned farmland. In November of 1992, a cooperative was founded, to begin creating a network of partnerships and gathering resources. At the center of the design was the desire to create a site for educational and pedagogical activities, a place where it would be possible to “Learn by Doing”. The buildings were constructed with recovered materials and appropriate technologies: earth, straw, and wood. Since 2008, the cooperative has become an association, A.P.S. “Panta Rei” with the aim of disseminating good practices in the management of the “commons”, by creating projects and activities focussing on a “pedagogy of practice”. As a site of permanent experimentation, it is a living laboratory for educators, associations, and individuals interested in learning and applying sustainability and regeneration, with a hands-on approach.

WHAT WE DO
Active, participatory, hands-on education for all ages. We believe in learning by doing. A keyword is “practice” – to be practical, to have a daily practice, to practice being in the world, one simple gesture at a time. We offer workshops and events for schools and students of all ages. Just visiting our center, with its bio-architecture of strawbale and cob, cunningly fashioned to blend into the hillside, is in itself an experience.

We engage the young with action and story, following the paths are taken by energy, light, water, soil, learning from each other, from the forest, and from the animals. Today we might be building a solar panel, tomorrow sowing seeds in the garden.

The center is an example of organic cob and strawbale architecture, winner of the Outstanding Earthen Architecture in Europe Award 2011. Outdoors, amidst sweeping views over Lake Trasimeno, there are gardens from which we produce local meals, woven willow structures, forest walks, an artificial wetland for filtering our gray water, an organic garden cultivated following the principles of synergistic gardening and permaculture, an organic orchard and a pond.

Among the topics practiced in Panta Rei.. since 1999… dance, laughter, yoga, agro-ecology, cooking, bio-architecture, song, education, facilitation, mediation, training, permaculture, health, sustainability, energy descent, regenerative agriculture, strawbale building, cob, transition, eco-tourism, meditation, counseling, alternative economics, community theatre…

Please get in touch to learn more about what activities, projects or workshops are happening in the current season.