ABSTRACT
This chapter explains grounding and origination in the renewal and reinterpretation of Islam. It explores emergent foundation lodged in the fusion between the occident and the orient. The chapter explains emancipatory navigation through anthroposophical approach to natural, cultural, political and economic systems. It also explores transformatively effecting the reclamation of the desert; thereby pursuing, via enterprise and academe, sustainable development. Sekem aims to establish a blueprint for the healthy corporation of the twenty-first century, albeit one that, as of 2012, also included a university for sustainable development. Sekem's approach to agriculture stands in direct contrast to business-as-usual industrial agriculture. In the final analysis, though, Sekem, while being a veritable development sanctuary, at its founding core, lodged in many an Egyptian desert community, while functioning as an ongoing natural, cultural, socio-technical laboratory, also recently establishing a university, has not yet configured itself as an integrated inter-institutional genealogy as such.
