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ANTIPORTA: A Fading Negotiation, an installation examining the functions of this door within the Maltese context by documenting its passage over time and imagining its future.

Malta Robotics Olympiad, Malta’s major annual event for design, technology and education.

Malta Design Week, an event presented by Foundation 808, which aims to celebrate, promote, and showcase the best of Maltese and international design, innovation and creativity.Tactile, the first international visual arts project in the Maltese Islands to involve the visually impaired to an equal level as the rest of the community.Design4Innovation, a collaborative project organized by eight European partners dedicated to promoting design as a tool for user-centred innovation.Baħħ Blu // Blue Void, a multi-site artwork installed in the sea area close to the Old Fish Market in Valletta (Il-Pixkerija tal-Belt) and at the Lower Barrakka Gardens which explored the relationship between man and sea.Design4DCity, a program addressing the wellbeing of residents through co-creative approaches towards public space.Started in 2016, the Valletta Design Cluster programming agenda has included: The Valletta Design Cluster has also created and supported a number of events to promote local and international design and artistic practices reflecting on communities wellbeing.

Openness and promotion of diversity trigger our bottom-up approach towards community engagement, event programming and services offered, together with the promotion of new networks between users. A wide range of public and independent organisations are also contributing to the project, providing both expertise and generous support. We identify ‘Communities’ with various potential users from the cultural and creative sectors, residents, students, start-ups, creative enterprises and other similar entities, whom the Valletta Design Cluster will provide support through its space, equipment and staff to ensure a greater effort towards the social good is made. The functions of the various spaces have been identified through a meticulous research process aiming to give voice to the community needs of (creative) spaces in Malta. The Roof Garden, a community green space dedicated to leisure activities and relax.The Makerspace, a fully-equipped workshop offering digital and traditional tools, where ideas come to life, either independently or with the help of qualified personnel.The Food Space, an open kitchen which hosts a variety of programmes, centred around the idea of making and enjoying food.

The Creative Studios, available to individuals and start-up SMEs to develop ideas and work on specific projects.

The Co-working Spaces, where practitioners from different backgrounds will work next to each other with the hope of fostering new synergies and creative contamination.

The Artist in Residence Space, offering accommodation and working facilities.

The Alley, an exhibition space on ground floor.

The great variety of available spaces within the building will include: Openness is one of the main pillars on which the Valletta Design Cluster concept builds its vision, placing itself as a key facility for learning, networking, creating, sharing experiences, ideas and projects with a number of stakeholders coming from different communities. The site is undergoing restoration and regeneration in order to host the Valletta Design Cluster facilities as of late 2019. The Valletta Design Cluster is a community space for cultural and creative practice situated in the renovated Old Abattoir building ( Il-Biċċerija) in Valletta, Malta. – Dr Anna Whicher, PDR International Centre for Design and Research, UK Design is ‘an approach to problem-solving that can be applied across the private and public sectors to drive innovation in products, services, society and even policy- making by putting people first.