Mecad was created in September 1998 on the initiative of the Fundació del Disseny Tèxtil –FUNDIT, the institution that in 1989 founded Escola Superior de Disseny ESDI.

Located Barcelona, MECAD’s activities are specifically oriented towards the research, production, support, training and diffusion for creative practices using infographic, audio-visual and telematic media and hypermedia. With this aim, MECAD has a training program devoted to postgraduate specialized studies.

MECAD has the will to be an open, decentralized entity, whose activities are take place in its own installations as well as in other cultural spaces with which cooperation is established, and also in the telematic space.

Through self-developed or collaborative projects, MECAD intends to increase the scope of its action to become a Centre of research and production of ideas and activities, a nucleus of reception and support for projects carried out by artists and designers and other entities, and a point of dissemination and launching pad for creators from all areas of Media Art.