Objectives & Mission

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: 

Creation of an open and dynamic multi-sided platform, a Space FORM called 'CHÔRA', that at its core has a Strategic Design capability that seeds and structures Portfolios of Innovation Options where learning activities and sensemaking protocols generate intelligence that feeds into strategic arguments to support innovation and transformational intents and to design pathways of execution.

Holding, further development and dissemination of a conceptual framework for Strategic Innovation and System Transformation and of the processes and tools that will ensure its effective application to renewal & development problems and intents at a global and local level.

Education and experiences to develop skills, capabilities and leadership mindsets that can support access to and use of the Strategic Innovation Framework.


Our SpaceFORM Model

CHÔRA is where the possibility of things is imagined, ideated, decanted and eventually actioned. It is a space of reflection, of learning, of representation of how things might be, of how they could be.

System transformation requires a new model of the structure of socio-technical systems. One that offers access to a capability and attracts “presences” that furnish a multiplicity of interests, a density of renewal intents, and a richness of resources and solutions.

Our intent with the publication of our CHÔRA Blueprint is to offer a solution to the problem of system resilience and renewal by establishing a system architecture that leverages two elements:

  1. An original and robust capability of design, sense-making and strategic innovation;

  2. A multi-sided platform model for efficiently accessing that capability and the creative, entrepreneurial constituency it attracts

CHÔRA is where the possibility of things is imagined, ideated, decanted and eventually actioned. It is a space of reflection, of learning, of representation of how things might be, of how they could be. The Capability it provides, and the creative density of the entrepreneurial efforts it enables, attract resources and create opportunities, generate a febrile, rich and diverse fabric of social and economic activities. Solutions are produced here, capabilities and intelligence shared as innovation emerges, effects accelerate, and change happens. 

CHÔRA offers access to a language, a creative protocol of transformational capabilities and behaviours that form actions, induce learning and model outcomes. This Capability is the “core” feature of the platform: it instructs the design practice, it informs the sense-making, and it forms the strategic arguments. A multiplicity of users, relationships, activities and experiences are attracted to it, and all seek it to make and transform. 

CHÔRA creates space, seeds and hosts all this. This “maker” language enables and rigorously manages strategic pathways and solutions that lead from conditions of uncertainty and concerns with resilience, to arguments for and commitments to renewal, thus disciplining intents and efforts. It is a dynamic and generative architecture of concepts, processes, tools that originate from our original, robust, end-to-end framework for Strategic Innovation.

With this Blueprint we want to establish a social space, structure a coming together, form an intent and engage those present to it in an exchange of possibilities. Reach out to us if interested!


Our System Transformation Framework

CHÔRA Foundation provides access to a conceptual framework for Strategic Innovation and System Transformation

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.