OBJECTIVES & FUNCTIONS
CHÔRA was founded with the intent to operate as a non-profit Stichting holding itself accountable to its long-term objectives as stipulated in the Deeds of Incorporation (English version/Dutch version) of the Foundation.
The objective of the Foundation is to help people and organisations in a world of rapidly increasing complexity through strategic and transformative innovation, with the aim to promote environmental protection and the well being of mankind in the broad sense by achieving socio-economic impact in the field of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The Foundation attempts to achieve these objects, among other things, by:
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Holding, curating & evolving a knowledge ontology to promote a cascading set of processes & tools so that they can be nested in human social systems with transformational intents to be constantly generative of response & renewal effects.
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Enacting a SpaceFORM, an open & dynamic multi-sided platform that at its core has a strategic design capability that seeds & structures Portfolios of Strategic Innovation Options that perpetually source robust & persuasive change Arguments & Solutions.
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Educating, delivering experiences that develop collective & individual capabilities, journeys of the mind & of discovery, coaching about strategy, leadership, complexity & meaning to foster a pragmatic, adaptive, intelligent, coherent approach to self-determination.
FRAMEWORK
Our Strategic Innovation and System Transformation Capability originates from an original, robust, end-to-end framework for Strategy making. Our Framework offers a dynamic and generative architecture of concepts, processes, and tools that enable organisations and complex systems seeking transformation to make sense of the world, take action, and form decisions that bring about a genuine difference.
SOCIAL UTILITY
The resilience & the performance of human social systems is reliant on their capability to take decisions about themselves. The Foundation contributes to the well-being & the effectiveness of social systems by engaging in activities & programs that deliver to & graft in to those systems its own knowledge ontology. These are:
