"We don’t believe in plug-and-play ideas. We believe in creating spaces where ideas reveal themselves.”
In a world where information is always available, true knowledge has become rare. Not the kind that’s stored, but the kind that’s shared. Not individual, but collective. Not static, but alive.
Cross Intelligence (CI) is a workshop format designed to make this kind of knowledge visible – as experience, as interaction, as collaborative emergence. It's a lab for cooperation, a field for insight, and a space where the new can arise by allowing difference to collide productively.
At its core, Cross Intelligence focuses on cooperation between people with different ways of thinking, disciplines, and communicative codes.
Why? Because innovation doesn’t come from more data, but from more perspectives. And that requires environments where difference is not just tolerated – but needed.
Studio M creates these environments – physically, mentally, and atmospherically – and facilitates the interactions within them. Structures and hierarchies are gently dissolved to create a safe, neutral, and inspiring space, allowing participants to engage deeply, think together, and arrive at solutions no one could have reached alone.
Access to tacit knowledge: Beyond slides and summaries, CI creates a space for what usually stays hidden – intuition, context, emotion.
Breakthroughs over brainstorming: We move past the outdated "fast ideas" approach and create depth-driven breakthroughs.
Communication beyond roles: Titles fade. Real dialogue emerges.
Responsible co-creation: Participants actively shape the process, bringing their concerns, connecting knowledge, and forming new ideas.
Lasting empowerment: Studio M equips organizations to replicate and continue these formats independently.
Cross Intelligence is built on an evolved understanding of knowledge:
Knowledge is not a container. Not a product. Not a possession.
It is motion. Relation. Structure and process at once.
We see knowledge as a dense form of communication in which information and meaning are dynamically intertwined. It arises from experience, perception, reflection, emotion, and embodied awareness – always in flux, always relational. That’s why CI is not a transfer format – it’s a non-linear, emergent format that adapts to the people inside it.
Cross Intelligence draws on two foundational scientific frameworks:
1. Neurophysiology
The brain is not a system of fixed specializations. It is a cooperative network that reorganizes itself through interaction with diverse sensory and communicative environments. Hierarchies are temporary and functional – just like in CI.
2. Game Theory & Evolutionary Theory
Newness emerges not through repetition, but through recombination – of rules, structures, perspectives. But that’s only possible if actors cooperate within shared systems of meaning. In both fields, cooperation is the driver of evolution.
So too in CI.
Studio M designs spaces where thinking works differently:
+ Think Spaces, not meeting rooms
+ CI Navigators, not moderators
+ Expanded formats including art, architecture, psychology
+ Sensitive facilitation, not scripted interventions
We design, build, and guide these spaces – and empower others to do the same.
Cross Intelligence is ideal for:
Strategic challenges without a clear process
Cross-departmental or systemic topics without ownership
Transformation tasks that need emotional traction
Innovation projects that require depth, not just speed
Organizations that want to reconnect with their own intelligence