Mediterranean Design Organization

Mission:
The Mediterranean Design Organization is a non-profit organization established in 2009 in the city of Beirut, Lebanon. Its mission aims at the contribution to the integrated development of the Mediterranean Sea region through a design-led arts and crafts methodology. MeDO concentrates on innovative activities compatible with the environment and the preservation of the cultural heritage of this region. MeDO focuses on a multidisciplinary approach through design, arts and crafts it also encourages research and entrepreneurship.
Objectives
The founding objectives of MeDO are:
- The support of the Design-led Arts and Crafts professions in the region.
- The promotion of the preservation of cultural heritage of the eastern Mediterranean region.
- The promotion of research activities in the fields of Design, Arts and Crafts.
- The promotion of advanced communication networks through the use of new technologies in the areas of creativity, innovation, design development and entrepreneurship.
- The promotion of design-built methodology, technology, ecology and nature science as the rational for exploitation of the natural and human resources in the region.
- The promotion of multidisciplinary educational methods aiming at exploring and developing new design areas.
- The promotion of inter-exchanging skills that consist in the creation of new programs to encourage design and art mobility across the Mediterranean countries.
- The promotion of sustainable design environments that aim at enhancing socio-economical growth in the region.
- The promotion of a new Apprenticeship method as a means of educating under privileged people.
- The promotion of partnership in design research and entrepreneurship amongst the Mediterranean cross border countries.
- The promotion of continuing education programs in the different Design, Arts and Crafts disciplines.