Breakout Sessions 2026

Elizaveta Bomash

This workshop opens a rare and intentional pause in the rush of professional life; a space where real thinking can happen. Together, participants will interrogate assumptions, surface hidden tensions, and confront how their values translate into action. Through guided dialogue and collective reflection, sustainability becomes not just a concept, but a lived decision, one that shapes how we lead, collaborate and create lasting change.

Synergy Across Sectors

How can a museum be transformed into a centre for learning and innovation? In this workshop, cross-disciplinary teams of museum staff and artists teach you tools and methods – that they invented and tested the day before!
Prototype, co-create and real-time learning; straight from the museum floor to the methods of the future.

Clara Norman

Social Circus applies circus-based methodologies to strengthen social inclusion and group dynamics. Through physical practice, creative expression and collective risk-taking, participants build confidence, trust, and life skills, supporting inclusion, empowerment, and personal development. The process strengthens life skills, fosters inclusion and empowers individuals — particularly those from marginalized communities — to develop confidence, communication skills and collaborative resilience.

Feral Malmö – Inna Zrajaeva & John Kazior

How can we look into the practice of placemaking not only as building a relationship between people and places, but also the plants, birds and insects that share that same place? This workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on how we can make participatory interventions in public spaces, addressing the needs of the many different humans and nonhumans. Participants will develop skills in analysing public space, testing participatory methods, and reflecting on sustainability through hands-on and collective learning.

Karin Johansson

A workshop to try out and learn how to design questrooms – a format combining playification, educational escaperooms and storytelling in a self-instructing and accessible way. For museums, educational settings and as cultural experiences. Participants will get to both playtest questrooms and learn how to design them.

Johan Grundström Eriksson
What if language is no longer our primary interface for learning and innovation? This workshop explores how mixed and augmented reality can unlock new forms of experiential knowledge, creativity and collaboration. Drawing on innovation work from Sony/Ericsson, Tetra Pak and UN innovation departments, we examine how arts, technology and education can co-create immersive environments that strengthen cognitive development, emotional regulation and cross-sector capability.

(This will be a two hour workshop, 14.30-16.30, including coffee break)

Alina Salontaji

We will explore how movements become automatic and how we transform mastered skills into artistic expression. Through a presentation and hands-on practice with new movement patterns, we will discover the neuroscience of motor learning, observe your own skill development, and learn practical tips for mastering tasks.

Examples and challenges of art science collaborations, from my own work and beyond that, address the potential and challenges of interdisciplinary art science collaborations both on a conceptual and thematic level as well as in the context of economic and institutional needs and barriers. I will advocate for this practice as a professional field.

Sami Jääskeläinen

How can Europe unlock the full potential of its cultural and creative sectors? In this talk, Sami explores how EIT Culture & Creativity supports creative industries through funding, innovation programmes, education and cross-sector collaboration. Discover how artists, entrepreneurs and creative hubs can connect to European innovation ecosystems and turn cultural creativity into new partnerships, projects and scalable impact.

Annika Lykta, Ulrika Andersson

How can we train to face future crises before they occur? Långsjö Teater presents THE VILLAGE, an interactive keynote blending research with art. We show how the cultural sector acts as a testbed for institutions to navigate future challenges and drive social cohesion through immersive, artistic methods.

Jenny Kornmacher, Elin Frost, Marlene Johansson

Cross Innovation is about creating conditions where different forms of expertise can meet. Rather than simplifying complexity, the task is to design processes that can hold it: building structures that support uncertainty, relationships that can withstand friction, and exploratory work that can move forward. Elin Frost, Marlene Johansson & Jenny Kornmacher have developed eight principles that support Cross Innovation in practice. In this workshop, they introduce these principles and explore how they help design and facilitate successful co-creation processes across sectors.

Examples and challenges of art science collaborations, from my own work and beyond that, address the potential and challenges of interdisciplinary art science collaborations both on a conceptual and thematic level as well as in the context of economic and institutional needs and barriers. I will advocate for this practice as a professional field.

The old maps are no longer sufficient. We must stop seeing the world as separate objects and instead see a dynamic network of relationships. Uncertainty is not an obstacle, but a source of potential. In the space between disciplines, between thought and emotion, between what has been and what will be – that is where something genuinely new can emerge.

I will bring an electromagnetic sculpture that generates a shifting field that participants can explore beyond ordinary perception. The workshop participants explore the field by building and enhancing themselves with magnets glued to their skin and built into jewellery, wearables and micro sculptures. Mixing science and art, this workshop invites playful inquiry into perception, materiality and the boundaries of the human senses.

Elizaveta Bomash

This workshop opens a rare and intentional pause in the rush of professional life; a space where real thinking can happen. Together, participants will interrogate assumptions, surface hidden tensions, and confront how their values translate into action. Through guided dialogue and collective reflection, sustainability becomes not just a concept, but a lived decision, one that shapes how we lead, collaborate and create lasting change.