Vision
We enVision IIUM Campuses to be Sustainable and Conducive for Learning and creating a Sejahtera Community which upholds Maqasid Al-Shariah and Sustainable Development Goals in its daily life.
Promoting and advancing natural and cultural heritage (indigenous people and Gombak heritage) as a subtle approach to harness the spirituality by structuring the Living Learning Lab as conceptual platform on the selected dedicated conservation and cultural areas to overcome the cross-cutting issues that hamper the local sustainability movement i.e. peace and justice, through a Quadruple Helix model of collaboration.
Mission
Long Term:
-Establish and strengthen the quadruple helix model of collaborations between International Islamic University of Malaysia, Gombak Community, Gombak Industrial player, and Gombak Administrative agencies in achieving these goals;
i. To build a society that is socially resilient, culturally sustainable, environmentally friendly and economically viable;
ii. To facilitate the development of regenerative heritage (Natural, man-made and cultural) through a quadruple helix model of collaboration;
iii. To establish the living-learning lab platform which addresses cross-cutting issues i.e. social, environment and economy by implementing Sustainability Science approach;
iv. To conserve the natural resources in Gombak area through the establishment of UNESCO world heritage site;
v. To upscale the local community economic and social-cultural values to promote harmonious / synergy society;
Short Term:
i. To empower the society in addressing the social, cultural, environmental and economic issues through various platform of collaborations;
ii. To establish the baseline data, heritage profile and the exhibition of the heritage in the current context;
iii. To identify the cross-cutting issues and challenges at the local level and formalize the existing natural and cultural as a structure living-learning lab for implementation of education for sustainable development, ESD;
iv. To facilitate the integration of ESD in the final dossier for the UNESCO world heritage site submission;
v. To facilitate and connect the local champion on Gombak heritage (indigenous people arts and cultural values, food heritage);