Start with the question, not the format.
Bring us a brief, a question, an event or a partnership idea — including one that is still taking shape. ODD is most useful when the work needs creative and cultural understanding as well as strategy and production.
For work that needs sharp strategy, bold creativity and hands-on execution.
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You have a question but not yet a format.
We can help frame what the work actually needs before deciding whether the answer is an event, a project, a partnership or something else.
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You need cultural credibility and professional delivery in the same project.
ODD works inside creative and cultural contexts, but we also build and deliver work with companies, cities and institutions.
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You need people who don't usually end up in the same room.
Sometimes the value is in creating the right conditions, roles and reason for different expertise to sit around the same table.
Ways to work with us
ODDference
The easiest way to experience ODD professionally. Come yourself, bring colleagues, or build something around the event with us.
Explore ODDference →
Partnerships
Bring resources, expertise or an idea into ODDference, ODDfest, ODDspace or another ODD context when there is a clear reason to build something together.
Explore partnerships →
ODDagency
For briefs and questions that need cultural understanding, concept development and a project-specific team.
Explore ODDagency →We work across creative practice, business and delivery.
ODD runs its own events and its own space, works with artists and cultural organisations, and delivers work with companies and institutions. We know those worlds from the inside rather than describing them from a distance — and we build the team around the problem instead of around a service catalogue.
Two years of ODD, in numbers.
What we’ve built with our partners
A few things from ODDfest 2025 and 2026 that only happened because partners built them with us.
BajaMyArt
At ODDfest 2025 the festival's portable toilets became artworks. Humak's cultural-production students produced it, Lassila & Tikanoja provided the units, and an open call brought in artists, a collective and a community workshop — including a gold-draped shrine people queued for.
See the photos →
Just Give a F*ck
Before ODDfest 2025, RFSU, Outshine, Adventure Club and ODD turned a digital outdoor screen in Kamppi into a game you played with your body. Passers-by waved their arms to win festival tickets and merch, and RFSU’s message got its own street corner: using a condom is caring.
Read the case at Outshine →
Arthur C. Brooks at ODDfest
We brought Harvard professor and happiness researcher Arthur C. Brooks to Finland for ODDfest 2025: a keynote on the main stage and a smaller conversation with Humak on happiness, meaning and entrepreneurship. Humak and the Hjelt Foundation made the visit possible with us.
Watch the Humak video →
Oddlygood at ODDfest
ODDfest has no standard brand booths, so Oddlygood didn’t bring one. Their stand handed out drinks in exchange for ideas on how to recycle better, and Skyproduction filmed the day.
Watch the video →
ODD100
A hundred leading voices from Finnish culture in the same room: organisation leaders, decision-makers, journalists, artists and curators. KULTA ry, the central organisation for Finnish culture and arts associations, curates the guest list with us. The City of Helsinki sponsored the tickets in 2025, and ODD100 came back in 2026.
Read more in the impact report →
LUO(V)UUS award 2025
The City of Tampere named ODDfest its 2025 creative-economy innovator at the Music x Media Industry Awards Gala. The jury picked us for an open-minded way of building cooperation between creative industries and the courage to try a new approach to it.
Read the City of Tampere news →What others have written
- Hufvudstadsbladet · 6 June 2025ODDfest förenar kultur och business
- Creve / Humak · 13 June 2025Yrittäjyyttä ei mitata rahassa – vaan siinä, mitä hyvää saimme aikaan
- Helsingin Uutiset · 16 May 2025Tämä mies haluaa pelastaa Helsingin keskustan – uusi tapahtuma on ”Slushin ja Flow’n rakkauslapsi”
- Rumba · 14 April 2025Uusi luovien alojen ammattitapahtuma Helsinkiin: ”Slushin ja Flow Festivalin rakkauslapsi”
- Yle Vega · 14 February 2025Den nya festivalen Oddfest ska föra samman den kreativa branschen med företagare
- Svenska Yle · 3 November 2024Ronny Eriksson vill ta kulturen till uppstartsvärlden: ”Det finns pengar”
What should we make happen together?
Tell us the situation in your own words. You do not need to know which ODD route fits; we can work that out together.
