A design education and application center to support creative industries

Abstract

As the importance of creative industries has become widespread, creative-cultural economy policies have become a priority area worldwide. In this context, this report describes a project planned and built to develop a model for platforms that would bring together public, private, and academic institutions. It describes how this model, designed to support research and design-based work in the field of interior design, was developed. The main motivation in this project is to become an important meeting point to feed creative industries’ ecosystem in Istanbul with the education-workshop-incubation model. It also aims to supply an environment of interaction for academics, design centers, entrepreneurs, and students. After one and a half years, it has become a digital and physical meeting point for university-sector representatives. An effective knowledge and technology transfer network has been set up. A scientific research project has been written and approved. In this way, the center will start to become a place for interdisciplinary design research. Scientific publications were prepared, presented at congresses, national and international panels, trainings were given, scientific publications were prepared and published, and efforts were made to increase the impact of the center on the importance of design research culture and high value-added design.