Permahaven
‘Permahaven’ is a permaculture garden on the grounds of Copenhagen Business School (CBS) campus’ ‘Klimahaven’, next to the Water Tower in front of Nordre Fasanvej Metro Station. Permahaven serves as a hub for learning and communicating about sustainability where the local community can share their knowledge among themselves and contribute to increasing biodiversity and well-being in the municipality, side by side with CBS students and staff. CBS is one of Scandinavia’s largest business schools, whose main building has been located in Frederiksberg since 2000 and is a permanent part of Frederiksberg’s cityscape. The project consists of three main elements: lifelong learning, biodiversity and well-being.
‘Permahaven’ creates a framework for knowledge sharing about sustainability between CBS students and staff and the local community, inspired by permaculture thinking. Permahaven also strengthens biodiversity and the green corridors in Frederiksberg Municipality as well as increases well-being among the above groups. Why: CBS Campus has a great biodiversity potential if more campus square meters are used for green purposes in line with FRB Municipality’s Biodiversity Strategy. Permahaven also contributes to opening up CBS campus to the local community by enabling voluntary collaboration between CBS actors and various local groups such as children’s and elderly institutions, ethnic minorities and the unemployed. CBS theoretical knowledge about sustainability that can, through Permahaven, be wider communicated to local communities.
The Permahaven project has been kindly supported by Frederiksberg Fonden.
Vision for CBS Permahaven
Permahaven creates a framework for collaboration and knowledge sharing on sustainability between CBS and the local community, inspired by a permaculture mindset. The project has three main elements: community learning, well-being and biodiversity. Permahaven contributes to strengthening biodiversity and the green corridors in Frederiksberg Municipality as well as increase well-being among local residents, CBS students and staff. The project is based on lifelong learning principles as well as peer-to-peer learning, where the groups involved support each other in developing each other’s knowledge and skills.
Join in
YOU’RE INVITED!
If you are a student, a business professional, an academic and/ or simply interested, you are invited to join us as a volunteer at PERMAHAVEN Copenhagen Business School.
What we do
Permahaven wants to contribute to opening up CBS campus to the local environment by creating the framework for integration between various groups such as children’s and elderly institutions, ethnic minorities, as well as employees and students at CBS (especially the vulnerable) who are curious about sustainability.
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Multifunctional, life-centered and participatory design
Experiential learning
Transformative learning
Environmental education
The Permahaven project has been kindly supported by Frederiksberg Fonden