PURPOSE, GOALS & OBJECTIVES

THE INSTITUTE'S PURPOSE FOR BEING

It is proposed that the Tamar Institute be established as a community oriented research and publication  enterprise structured to facilitate the development of, and the advocacy of, new understandings of sustainable and cooperative living in a 21st Century context.

DRAFT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE  INSTITUTE

Given that in a broad context scientific, social and cultural discourses can be variously seen as being at the interface between technical innovation, cultural production and social aspirations  – science, technology and industry in other contexts – these activities often find themselves at the cutting edge of social development and cultural change. Against this background a projected set of  goals and objectives for a  Tamar Institute might well be:

1.  To engage regional communities, researchers and its cultural producers in a critical discourse that explores the possibilities and parameters of the interfacing concepts that define and determine  sustainable living and placedness, a sense of place, in a real world 21st C context while delivering fiscal, social and cultural dividends;

2.  To be an advocate for innovative and sustainable outcomes within the current regional economy and especially so in relation to current technologies, social structures and cultural practices;

3. To operate in collaboration, cooperation and alliance  with like-minded individuals, institutions and groups and where appropriate under the auspices of one or more established groups that have symbiotic sets of goals and objectives;

4.  To investigate the ways in which social and cultural realities in a regional context interface with current technologies, social structures and cultural production – local and international – and the broad spectrum of research can;

   •  relate to changing, and new, understandings of economies in an eco-context; and
   • shape and/or reshape cultural and social realities in a 21st Century context;

5.  To be proactive in the initiation of projects that engage researchers, innovators and cultural producers – writers, design practitioners et al – with the wider community towards developing new understandings of ‘place’ and one place’s interfaces with others in a 21st Century  context;

6. To facilitate the development of new interactive networks towards the promotion of new/pioneering technologies, innovative social structures, sustainable enterprise outcomes and/or community cultural enterprises informed by current circumstances in the region;

7.  To be proactive in the publication and dissemination of the outcomes of individual, cooperative and collaborative research and cooperative community enterprises relevant to the institute’s raison d’être;

8.   To seek funding and in-kind support for scholarship in a broad context plus projects, conferences, symposiums, seminars and education programs that advance the institute’s cause and to be of benefit to  a broad spectrum of regionally based entrepreneurial activity.