1. To provide designers and design students with a challenge and a platform to explore new ideas within the rural context.2. To offer & develop insights into design processes and the challenges involved in the creation of new and innovative concepts about crafts, nature, sustainability, social design & local development
3. To provide the local communities with creative and innovative input for their sustainable
development.
Objectives of the platform:
1. To support the regional intervention program with new refreshing ideas and attitudes towards the restoration of the villages & their future lifestyles.2. To Revitalize and promote local crafts & sites of interest for tourism, education and leisure activities.
3. To introduce and promote the Aldeias do Xisto in new social & professional networks in Europe
4. To attract new & young people to this area who may in turn want to stay and help to develop the region in the future
