Conclave Premise
Practical Sustainability Planning
Dynamics (PSPD)
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Food Sector:
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Primary Activity: Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
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Secondary Activity: Food Processing & Packaging
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Downstream: FMCG, Hospitality, Online Food Distribution
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Clothing Sector:
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Primary Activity: Raw Materials (Cotton, Silk, Jute, Polymers)
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Secondary Activity: Yarn, Processed Material, Cloth Fabric
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Downstream: Garmenting, Retail Operations, Online Operations
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Shelter Sector:
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Primary Activity: Excavation and Mining
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Secondary Activity: Processing into Bricks, Cement, Tiles, Iron-rods, Aluminium
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Downstream: National & Local Infrastructure, Housing, Office Infrastructure, Civilian, Military, Administrative, Hospitality Infrastructure, Parks
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Shelter Subset: Hardware (Governmental, Military, Civilian), White Goods (Computers, TVs), Ancillary Services
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Sustainable Thinking Module:
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Exploring Sustainable Thinking: FWC decided to contextualize the vision of sustainability within a sector.
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Focus on Shelter: Leveraging past experience in Architecture and Design to initiate sustainable practices.
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Foundation Plinths: Using Design Week and related conclaves since 2015 to build Sustainable Thinking awareness and knowledge.
Bite Sized First Steps To Commence the FWC Sustainable Thinking Module
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Conclave Partners and Participants:
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Technology Integrators
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City Planners
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Government Representatives & Administrators
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Architects (commercial and residential)
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Product & System Designers
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These partners have the potential to integrate Sustainable Thinking matrices into their practices, influencing clients, consumers, and governmental representatives respectively.
Knowledge & Awareness for Organisations - Part 1
Among the myriad issues that continue to dominate discussions on sustainable development, the critical link between Sustainable Thinking and workplace culture seems to be largely ignored. Yet, this vital link represents a source of identity, innovation, and creativity for the individual and the community and is essential in building social inclusion and economic parity. It also provides for economic growth and catalyzing an ownership mindset within large multi-national corporations. It is a way for business leaders to focus on the most important things for their people and communities and transparently measure an organization's contributions to sustainable practices.
The implementation of Sustainable principles has gained massive importance in recent years for multiple reasons which to me are valid and essential for equitable growth across countries and societies. Challenges of climate change and its adverse impact on every sector of the economy, rising demand for social justice from every stratum of society, the expansion and enforcement of human rights by activists, and a need for transparency and accountability by employees for every decision and action taken by the top management, and greater scrutiny of corporates by regulatory agencies, has put Sustainable Development on the priority list of most corporates.
Knowledge & Awareness for Organisations - Part 2
Most often corporations lead the way for consumers both in terms of products on demand of products and services. If you build it, they will come. They create the products or services, generate demand or need for said products and services and then fulfil the product and services requirements while managing demand perception i.e. cars, consumer durables, wearable tech, hospitality etc.
However, every once in a while like Pirate Bay, servicing customer demand for music led to Spotify as a company, harnessing the demand through a structured legal entity. And the Torrents led the demand for shared user accessible online video content, that led to Netflix, Prime, Hotstar etc. harnessing the demand into legally available offerings.
Both genres have long term pushback form Movie and Music executives who didn’t understand how free could be monetised through ads in terms of YouTube/free Spotify or paid subscription in terms of Netflix/Prime or Spotify premium. The consumer demand for unstructured, non-incorporated services, led the way to change these multibillion-dollar industries. It started with young aware consumers who demanded the changes and the services. So too with Sustainability… corporations are behind the Customer/Consumer Curve Corporations have to build it because...
THE CONSUMERS HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED
