De Structura

🟧🔲 Parallel sessions: Art x Defence, Art x Circularity, Art x Engineering 🟣
CIDAY26 | 6 March | 13:30–15:30 ◼︎

The afternoon at CIDAY unfolds through three facilitated working sessions. Each places art-based cross-innovation inside a structurally demanding field and explores what shifts when artistic practice meets institutional reality.

The sessions are chaired by young professionals from defence, circular economy, and engineering, bringing sector expertise and lived constraints into the room.

🟦 Art x Defence — Aron Roosberg .roosberg (Sweden)
Second Lieutenant in the Swedish Army with a specialisation in counter–special forces tactics. He trains conscripts at the Norrbotten Armoured Battalion and serves as Vice Chair of the Young Atlantic Treaty Association of Sweden while pursuing a degree in political science.

The session examines how artistic methods can surface blind spots and ethical tensions within highly regulated defence structures.

🟢 Art x Circularity — Martin Hagen (Norway)

Project manager and social economist at Natural State working across circular economy, place development, and cross-sector collaboration. He has led initiatives including the Nordic Circular Summit and the Poland Circularity Gap Report.

The session explores how artistic approaches can make systemic flows and long-term impacts tangible across sectors.

🟨 Art x Engineering — Frank Heusser (Switzerland)

Electrical engineer and strategy developer for distributed hardware platforms, focused on effective hardware–software integration and responsible development processes.

The session reflects on how artistic practice can expand creative problem-solving within engineering.

Each chair will be accompanied by an art world co-chair.

Expression of interest open until 1 March.
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How can culture professionals drive societal transformation? That is the question that brought art workers and invited experts from all over Europe to a 3-day Cross-Innovation workshop in Tartu this July.

The exploration evolved across three thematic strands:

🌀 Value creation in art-based cross-innovation: exploring how artists can meaningfully contribute to innovation in business and the public sector
🌱 Creative urban regeneration: co-developing future strategies for a more walkable and socially vibrant Tartu
🔁 Transformative competences for intermediaries: identifying the mindsets and skills needed to connect creative and non-creative worlds

Three days spent working together gave room for testing new methods and creating tools for cross-sectoral collaboration. We thank everyone who joined (participants, experts, and partners!) and made the event such a refreshing and warm experience 💜

The next step? Remote collaboration and preparing the final deliverable: the Art Innovation Toolbox. More on this later!

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📸: Mana Kaasik