Objectives

• Reviving cottage industries and indigenous livelihood practises in arts, crafts, performance, agriculture, architecture, and traditional industries to enrich and empower the national heritage of Nepal and expand its reach to South Asia.

• Preserving and promoting threatened livelihood practices due to fast urbanisation and loss of identity and culture.

• Upscaling traditional techniques for modern-day requirements and transforming design and functionality for craft practitioners and consumers.

• Creating products and services for wider markets, from the economic base to high-end consumers.

• Developing a transdisciplinary platform for design-led interventions via for-profit and charitable projects and programs.

• Incubating social entrepreneurs with business models like co-creative ateliers, collaborative workspaces, art residencies, museums, and exhibitions to stimulate the creative economy of the region.