Daryl Taylor
Daryl Taylor
Kinship (Kinglake earthship), BioCultural Futures, Facing Fire
Daryl is the co-facilitator of Facing Fire (linking fire-ecology communities globally) and Founder of Biocultural Futures and Adaptive Dynamics.
He grew up and worked on mixed farms around the small rural village of Waaia and township of Strathmerton in the Murray Valley 'food bowl' in Victoria. He has been fortunate to work with Agroecological, Permaculture, Biotecture, Keyline and Regenerative Agriculture pioneers.
Daryl is the co-author (with Dr Helen Goodman) of “Place-Based and Community-Led: Generalisable Community Resilience and Specific Disaster Preparedness” based on ‘braided dialogue’ participatory action research he undertook in the aftermath of the Black Saturday mega-firestorm.
He has served on the Victorian Gender and Disaster Taskforce Member at the request of the Emergency Services Commissioner, and on the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning's Bushfire Management Reference Group – East Central Victoria Bushfire Risk Landscape.
Daryl has hosted “Regenerative Sustainability Settlement and Property Redesign'“ processes with architects, planners, engineers, builders, interior designers, farmers, ecologists and landscape architects.
He has taught 'The Big History of Public Health and Environmental Change', 'Participatory and Community Planning', 'Democratic International and Community Development', 'Living Systems Inquiry' and 'Community Cultural Leadership' across multiple universities throughout Melbourne.
He has also co-hosted workshops on 'Peak Oil, Climate Disruption, Economic Volatility and Demographic Transitions' (with Dr Steb Fisher) and 'Disaster-Resilient Landscapes and Communities' (with Dr David Holmgren) and Disaster Preparedness (with David Hood).
His work includes exploring household-, property-, neighbourhood- and community economy viability and mutuality, reciprocity, solidarity, self-provisioning, socio-ecological resilience and 'Laceweb' dynamics in self-organising (emergent) systems (with Dr Les Spencer) and most recently, written contributions on 'Bush Mechanics' and 'Planetary Bricolage' in ‘The Futures We Make: How our Hobbies Help Make us Whole and Heal the Planet' (by Dr Paul Wildman).