MAD International Summer School of Design was created as an immersive intensive course where artisans, design students, professors and experts from various fields can work and live together for a determined period of time to create design pieces with purpose. In MAD's philosophy, new values for design and craftsmanship can only emerge by developing creative works and understanding the two disciplines deeply, blurring the boundaries between the fields of design, art, crafts and science. MAD sessions take place each summer in Sigulda and Krimulda Castles. At the end of the course, the pieces created are presented at an exhibition open to the public in Riga. The exhibition is complemented by an extended lecture programme.