Ends Starts  / Početak Kraja

Rad.AR 2018

Founding of Center for Socially Engaged Design Practices - repurposing abandoned industrial space.

Establishing professional internships for raising employability, development of startup projects, organizing creative and cultural events for raising awareness.

Startup of design practices for young unemployed people, introduce and actualize craftsmanship and self-production.

Creative workshops - direct involvement of children with disabilities and their families in order to improve social inclusion and positively influence the community of young creators with their unique artistic expression.

Creative interventions in urban public spaces - introduction of sustainable design and creative industries to the entire community, in order to change the overall image of a small town, and thus on the micro-plan of the municipality, improve the socioeconomic and cultural situation.

RadAR: repurposing and reconstruction of the AMSS building with all the necessary infrastructure, including basic equipment and devices in order to implement practices and workshops, and work with young people and children with disabilities.

PROgres: inclusive creative workshops & interactive installations in public urban spaces developed with high-school students, set to provoke communication & knowledge exchange, bringing awareness of our differences/similarities as humans, emphasizing the role of young people in the local community.

PROactiv: establishing professional training workshops for young people in order to educate and introduce them to the contemporary design practices, crafts and self-production concepts as a way of empowering them and raising employability.

PROvide: professional internships for young unemployed people and students in order to develop efficient program for youth and children with disabilities, ensuring supportive environment, structure, social and psychological assistance, simultaneously empowering both groups.

PROduce: create and develop set of products and services for the open market and companies, which will allow accumulation of knowledge and funds, creating self supporting system that works on redistribution of income as well as flow of knowledge and possibilities.

The first association with the notion of migrations is usually war and refugees. But then, there are those silent migrations, whose consequences are diminishing small towns in Serbia. Our goal is to create sustainable social enterprise, local creative center based on the principles and tools of creative industries, in order to create products and services that will allow for redistribution of income as well as redistribution of possibilities.