Beirut Souks, Khan El Joukh, Block D, Units 102/104, Creative Space Beirut
Beirut
Lebanon
- Arts
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Youth and education
MISSION
Creative Space Beirut is a school that’s dedicated to fostering the talent of young, aspiring designers who lack the resources required to pursue a career in the field of design. In creating an educational ecosystem where quality design education, industry experience, networking and career support are provided entirely for free, Creative Space Beirut ensures these young talents are given equal opportunities when it comes to breaking into the increasingly costly and competitive design industry.
VISION
Creative Space Beirut aims to become a multi-disciplinary, self-sustainable and expansive educational ecosystem that combines free teaching, industry experience, career opportunities and ethical production in order to both disrupt and challenge socioeconomically exclusive and environmentally destructive design industry methods and practices.
VALUES
Education
Creative Space Beirut advocates the importance and delivery of free education, and the significance of guiding individuals towards achieving their full potential through learning and creative expression.
Consciousness
In a bid to minimize its environmental footprint, Creative Space Beirut promotes the significance of consciousness in everything it does. In order to highlight the importance of environmental awareness and social understanding, Creative Space Beirut encourages and highlights transparency, ethical practice, sustainable production and equal opportunities in all areas.
Quality
Creative Space Beirut has a firm belief that everything it does should promise quality as well as the fullest potential of its intended design and function. Therefore, Creative Space Beirut works to assure the highest quality possible in all services and products it offers.
Activities include: Delivery of a holistic three-year education program to enrolled students. Provide relevant internship, volunteering or one-to-one private client experience, in partnership with other fashion schools. Organize a yearly fashion show. Monitor the number of students enrolled in the School. Assist new alumni in navigating the professional design sector, building portfolio, and access to employment.Collaborate with selected alumni (1 alumnus per year) to produce mini-collections that will be sold on the online shop. Undertake continuous photoshoots (weekly) of new products to put on CSB website. Undertake a marketing campaign to support the social enterprise to increase its contribution to CSB. Monitor the marketing trends, using baseline figures to be developed. Launch short workshops’ program. Expansion of brands into new boutiques for wholesale and consignment sales. Participate in yearly showrooms to increase exposure and sales. Develop a three-year business strategy. Revise the existing three-year financial business plan. Develop a strategy for the online shop including marketing sales and targets. Map donors that fund creative NGOs. Submit proposals to donors. Increase the contribution of individual donors.
Our organization is mixture of so many different factors. We are a non-governmental organization that provides quality education for those who do not have the resources to pursue it, and we also have a sister organization that is a social enterprise the helps sustain the school and is socially-conscious. We can contribute to the Network in our country by exchanging experiences, ideas, platforms, friendships, networks, meet other civil society organizations, collaborate with them, and participate in events that can benefit all parties involved. Also, we can introduce other civil society organizations to our mission of free education and ethical labor and hopefully, one day, it can reach the whole world.
We would like to join the ALF Network firstly because it would be an honor and a privilege to become a member. Secondly, we believe we share the Foundation's values, and we would love to meet other civial organizations who share the same values as we do and learn about their journeys and missions. We can all help, motivate, and inspire each other and push each other forward because we all bring different things to the table but under the same umbrella of making a difference in the world. We believe so much in making change and it is this drive that keeps us going and expanding.