Your Partner for
Cultural Development & Social Impact
We are a multidisciplinary design and facilitation practice supporting cultural organizations, NGOs, and civil society networks worldwide to strengthen their impact, build collaborative capacity, and design effective programs that create lasting social change.
Our work has reached organisations across the globe
How We Help Organizations
Amplify Their Impact
We work with organisations through three interconnected phases:
Research & Engagement
Mapping cultural assets, community needs, and stakeholder ecosystems to build shared understanding and identify opportunities for meaningful impact.
Learning & Scaling
Co-designing and testing programs, learning experiences, workshops, and interventions with communities and partners, gathering feedback to refine approaches before scaling.
Design & Strategy
Developing strategic frameworks, capacity-building programs, and sustainable models that strengthen your organization's ability to create lasting social and cultural impact.
Ways We Can Work Together
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Capacity-Building Labs
Strengthen your organization's ability to engage communities and partners through tailored learning programs. We design workshops and lab formats that build skills in participatory methods, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative program design—supporting your team to create more impactful initiatives.
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Cultural Programming
Co-create innovative cultural programs and community initiatives through action-oriented design labs. Participants learn and apply participatory methods to develop program ideas that respond to community needs and organizational goals. A proven format for cultural institutions and NGOs looking to activate grassroots creativity and build collaborative capacity.
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Program Design & Management
From understanding your challenge to implementing solutions—we design and facilitate complete program development processes tailored to your mission. This includes stakeholder research, co-design workshops, pilot implementation, and evaluation frameworks with measurable impact indicators.
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Keynotes & Workshops
Learn from our work with organizations like the Goethe-Institut, NDPC, and Anna Lindh Foundation. We share insights on participatory design, cultural development, and building resilient civil society networks. Cultural organizations and foundations across Europe have invited us to facilitate learning experiences for their teams and networks.
Not sure which format fits your needs?
Book a call and we'll figure it out together.
What our clients are saying
I worked with Creative Insights Studio and Abbas within the project Cultural Pearls in 2024. Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture, one of the project partners, commissioned Abbas to work as a consultant and producer for the Seed-Money Initiative Roadmap. This guidebook was set to support the Cultural Pearls municipalities and communities in establishing meaningful collaborations with their culture and creative sector professionals for the goal of added resilience in their communities.
Abbas was just the right professional for this task. It is quite rare to find this varied set of skills in only one person. Abbas knows very well the cultural sector, as well as the municipalities. So right from the start it was very easy to build a common ground and he could relate to both of our target groups. Abbas created the visual guidebook, with very high quality and nice visual identity. Also, I appreciated his professional approach to outlining his own work and the overall flow of our collaboration. And when all things did not go as planned, Abbas was very flexible in making things work anyway.
Krista Petäjäjärvi
Nordic Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC)