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.

Keywords:

• Design education center
• creative industries
• interior design
• design studies

Acknowledgement

The author would like to thank everyone who took part in this project as an instructor, as well as the members of the project management group, the esteemed colleagues who supported the project as acoustical, industrial design and parametric design consultants.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This paper is part of the Designhub-IST Design Education and Application Center project which is funded by the Istanbul Development Agency, under the Creative Industries Financial Support Programme under grant agreement No TR10/21/YES/0125.