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Work in Progress

1) Research on technologies presently available to:

(a)  connect people, communities and organisations (imitating face-to-face communication)
(b)  encourage trust, friendship, converstaion and dialogue
(c)   promote learning and event/training management (of creativity, design and dialogue-process)
(d)  documentation and database construction
(e)  digital creative tools and multi-media representation
(f)   user friendly screen technologies 

(h) Other relevant areas which encourages ease in using the software

2) Research on technologies allowing development of a versatile and dynamic dialogue architecture promoting platform enabled and constraint by "variable" contributing to spiritually-engaged sustainability/sustainable futures  

3) Detailed case studies of spiritually-engaged sustainable designs (services, products, organisations, processes, institutions) from all over the world


Notes on the Software Platform Being Conceived

The platform of the web-based, open source software will:
  • facilitate and manage a series of critical activities involving people, communities, experts from various fields, other platforms  and database of case studies (of sustainable initiatives involving services, products, processes and institutional designs) 
  • be a dynamic, self-scalable tool to initiate, organise and manage dialogue with  concerns for spiritually-informed sustainable designs which will be  guided and enabled through seven critical themes (which the Centre is promoting)
  • help conceive, negotiate, exchange and develop scenarios of spiritually-engaged sustainability/sustainable futures. 
  • interact and collaborate with existing social networking platforms and creative digital tools to bring individuals, groups or communities together in trust and friendship to work towards common objectives and spiritually-engaged sustainable futures.
  • develop and disseminate replicable and supportive methodologies to help scale up locally available and applicable resources and at the same time generate and/or collate databases on such resources (local knowledge and practices) by  learning  and researching on ongoing creative and sustainable initiatives around the globe
  • organise various events, dialogue, conversations, unconference, formation courses on creativity, dialogue, design and deep meditation
  • actively engage with international policy procedures and processes to promote local, regional and international dialogue for design of sustainable futures


Note:
We welcome help from any one who is interested in this project on volunteer basis. 

Team

The team (of technical and functional members) is being constituted. For now, we are in the process confirming the following:

1) Surenda (Team Leader, India)
2) Zend (Malaysia)
3)  Claudia (UK)

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Critical Orientations 
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This site promotes the orientation, activities, resources and projects of the Centre for the Study of Sustainable Futures and Spirituality (GCSSFS). The Centre is supported in the area of content generation, project execution, design and general administration by Public Media Agency (PMA),  Petaling Jaya, Malaysia under the direct care of one of their creative consultants, Dr. M. Nadarajah (Nat). Nat works as consultant on different projects.  He supports PMA on its various projects supporting social causes. Nat is presently engaged with Xavier University@Bhubaneshwar, India, with it School of Sustainability. He works with Loyola College@Chennai, India on issues related sustainability and spirituality. He is associated with the Centre for Diaspora Studies@MSU, Tirunelveli, India. He continues to support Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), which is based in Penang, Malaysia, as consultant on a project to set up a 'blended' institution, International People's Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM), to promote agroecology across Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member of the Asian Public Intellectual (API)  community.

GCSSFS, 2016