We empower the design process with a portfolio of transformative technologies, transdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration, and a robust social-enterprise structure.
DESIGN
Design is the conscious process by which we imbue tools and strategies with purpose. It is a system reflective of the means, values, and skills of the designer. With heightened understanding, deeper collaboration, and enhanced functionality, we expand our potential for intelligent and effective design. But as our means evolve, so must the way in which we use them. Our use of design to problem solve is the way in which we organize and integrate our resources. It is the conduit through which we seek to concentrate and amplify the spectrum of creative thought and technological ability…>>
COLLABORATION
No problem falls solely in the realm of any one sector or discipline. The multidimensional complexity and cross-sector importance of the problems we face demand us to transcend disciplines and redefine our expertise. With our transdisciplinary approach to collaboration, we build teams from all sectors, disciplines, and positions in the value chain. Experts from their respective fields teach and learn from one another, transcending their own disciplines and applying their cognitive and creative abilities in new ways. The ideation and design process that results is extensive and robust – no longer disjointed along old boundaries of discipline and training – but defined from a new convergence of experiences, intellects, and abilities…>>
TECHNOLOGY
Science is the dynamic process by which we expand and refine our understanding of the world. Technology is the translation of science and with it we wield the culmination of our scientific understanding. By itself, technology is amoral. Its ability to transform with exponential force can entrench or disrupt markets and destroy or serve our humanity. Either way, technology empowers and emboldens our capacity for transformation.
We build, license, and acquire VAST platform technologies, those that are Versatile, Accessible, Sustainable, and Transformative (VAST) to be the subject and means of our strategy. We harness these technologies by bridging their functionality and value to the often overlooked areas of global development – those the most in need of innovation…>>
STRUCTURE
Strategy is the integration of the available means to achieve the desired ends. We as a society are endowed with the necessary means and it is upon us to understand, integrate, and continually renew the structures of our society so that the means at our disposal are relevant and potent in addressing the ever-changing challenges we face. Structural reinvention and innovation are thus at our strategy’s core.
SEEDR is formed as a Low-profit Limited-Liability Company, a legal structure designed to foster social enterprise by committing companies to charitable causes, in terms of both core business activity and mission-related reinvestment of its profits – while bringing business acumen to causes that affect us all. SEEDR’s L3C structure enables it to work closely with philanthropic and government funding and collaborative partners in ways that transcend traditional problem solving structures. As an L3C, SEEDR is also a cornerstone of the SEEC family of companies, applying its mission-related reinvestment and broad range of partners to drive research and application development for its portfolio technologies…>>
