About Cirrus
The central activities of the partner institutions are art and design, including innovative activities, technical development and artistic practices. By our activities we simply realize the objectives of designers and artists on the 21st century. In the growing globalization it becomes ever more important to define local specialties through collaborative work. The Nordic-Baltic area is a powerhouse in design with certain characteristics that do not exist in other geographic areas. It is important for the Nordic-Baltic region to preserve and extend this competence in relation to the wider global field of design. Furthermore in the ever more competitive field of design and design education it is important to run a supporting network for the partner institutions to make sure that the proper benchmarking is created and held.
Cirrus is also a space for people to meet – for students and teachers to exchange ideas and knowledge. The Cirrus schools develop their education and research by supporting each other. They collaborate on important up-to date issues together with commerce and industry, culture and other actors belonging in the spheres of art, design and media. Alongside solid aesthetic and design-related skills, we offer the power of creative thinking and conceptual, strategic and scholarly skills for solving any problem we, or our associates, encounter. This means that we have to be ready to meet challenges because a better world has to be created anew every day and it is the purpose of design to work with the future, projecting scenarios and solutions.
