Museum of Architecture and Design
Centre for Creativity, a business development platform for professionals working in the creative and cultural sectors, is run by the national Museum of Architecture and Design. We provide product and service development by promoting cooperation between creatives, enterprises, business sector and both the private and public sector as well as offering financial support, education for the development of entrepreneurial and specialised creative skills, the establishment of a partner network, sector integration, internationalisation and promotion of creative sector’s visibility abroad. The Centre is also a national contact point for The New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative and an EIT Culture & Creativity partner for the development of innovative projects in the CCS. MAO is also the organiser of the oldest Biennial of Design (BIO), the oldest European design biennial, as well as the founder and coordinating entity of Future Architecture Platform.
As part of the Distributed Design Platform, MAO and Center for Creativity develop projects that take shape at the intersection of different creative disciplines, art, experimentation, entrepreneurship, and business, and have not yet received a system-wide public funding. They promote interdisciplinary co-operation and the development of projects that are commercially viable, increase added value and contribute to social progress and welfare. Past and future activities in the DDP scheme focus on facilitating opportunities that deal with questions of locality, community and heritage on the one hand, as well as disseminating these ideas in an international context on the other.
