UNIDEE defines education as an interdisciplinary, socially embedded process of knowledge-sharing, exchange and cross-pollination rather than as the transmission of a fixed curriculum. Its distinctive move is to cast artistic and educational practice as a catalyst for responsible social transformation while preserving room for error, divergence and the production of unforeseen directions. The statement is especially strong on temporality: the programme must operate as a long-term endeavour whose effects accrue through repeated encounters with civil society and through the re-localisation of processes once participants return to their own contexts. Methodologically, this converts the residency or module from a bounded event into a recursive pedagogical infrastructure. The wider theoretical bridge is to institutional and curatorial theory: institutions become frameworks for generating conditions of emergence rather than containers for predetermined content, making duration, participation and situated return central criteria of practice.