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🟦🟨 CIDAY26 | A day of collaboration across disciplines ◼︎

🟪 CIDAY26 brought together professionals from culture, public sector, architecture, academia, defence, engineering, sustainability and other walks of life for a full day of discussion, experimentation, and exchange around art-based cross-innovation. ◼︎

🟠 Held in Tallinn on a bright March day, the programme combined several formats: the presentation of the Cross-Innovation Compass, a panel discussion on structural constraints to sustainable ways of being, three thematic sessions (Art x Defence, Art x Circularity, Art x Engineering), and smaller walking dialogues that allowed conversations to continue in a more informal setting.

🔳 Throughout the day, participants examined how artistic practices can operate within sectors typically defined by efficiency, technical expertise, and institutional structures. The discussions addressed how artistic methods can help surface blind spots, encourage reflection on complex challenges, and support new forms of collaboration across disciplines.

🟢 A recurring observation from participants was the value of bringing together people working in different professional environments and creating space for perspectives that rarely meet within standard sectoral frameworks.

The Cross-Innovation Compass, developed through the CIC project and launched at CIDAY, is now publicly available.

Explore it via link in bio 🔗

Thank you for joining us on that sunny day! ☀️

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🟪 Opening Session: The Cross-Innovation Compass in Context
🟢 CIDAY26 | 6 March | 10:30–11:15 ◼︎

The day begins with a structured introduction to the Cross-Innovation Compass, a practical framework developed by De Structura together with Arteconomy in collaboration with EIT Culture & Creativity .

We’ll unpack:
• What the Compass is
• How it was developed
• How it applies to real cross-sector contexts

Session flow:

▪ Anastasia Lemberg-Lvova introduces the overall project and the logic behind the Compass, why art-based innovation needs structure while remaining open.

▪ Maria Claudia Coppola (online) places the work within EIT Culture & Creativity’s Transformation Area, connecting cultural practice to systemic European transformation 🌍

▪ Nikita Gavrilenko walks us through the visual architecture of the Compass, how to navigate it and how design supports the mindset of art innovation 🎨

▪ Koen Snoeckx (online) presents the Dutch Police case (“Social Design Police”), a concrete example of art-based cross-innovation embedded inside a large institution ⚙️

Since 2017, the Dutch Police have run 20+ projects linking officers with artists and social designers. Coordinated by two Creative Leaders, the initiative generated impact across an organisation of 70,000+ employees.

At CIDAY, this case will be introduced as a working model of structured art-based innovation within institutional systems.

More via link in bio 🔗

Join us and ask the speakers your questions about the Compass.

Why art-based cross-innovation? And what’s in it for professionals across different sectors? 🤔

Hear directly from the curious minds – participants of Cross-Innovation Workshop that De Structura and Arteconomy organised last summer in Tartu 🌱

Video: https://vimeo.com/1158141850?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

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