TASMENA INITIATIVE is the first step towards building TASMENA by young designers. Our goals in TASMENA is to build the socially responsible design fundamentals of the creative industries by developing design capabilities, stimulating sophisticated demand and strengthening industries to become credible and significant players in the global creative landscape.
- To recognize young designers in UAE
- To start social design dialogues in UAE
- To establish UAE as a leading hub for design excellence, where its design cluster is fully developed into a key driver of national competitiveness and creativity.
By using a grassroots approach to revitalize UAE’s economy, TASMENA will cultivate creative talents, stimulating creative ideas and cultivating creative enterprises from the ground up; aiming to empower individuals and organizations to initiate and pilot cutting edge projects that will unleash individual and community creativity and entrepreneurship. TASMENA will fabricate demands and capabilities for the Creative Industries by providing a unique people-private-public collaborative platform providing various levels of support, including facilitation, co-branding, marketing and co-funding. We hope that all designers in UAE will contribute and be part of our family.
TASMENA INITIATIVE is sponsored by
- Emirates Foundation
- Dubai and Art and Culture Authority
- Zayed University
- Adobe Foundation
