Participation, inclusion and engagement are main challenges for cities in Europe now. As the cities become more dynamic and important through demographics, social inequalities, ecological issues such as air pollution, transport, living conditions e.g. quality of buildings, urban planning, green zones in the cities, it is important to increase number of people who operate circular principles in Ukrainian cities and participate both in urban planning and management and joint projects initiated by urban citizens. Thus, such terms as empathy, observations, emotions and experience, idea generation, rapid prototyping, testing and iterations are vitally important for better urban service design in Ukrainian small and medium cities.

Rivne is a medium size city that has several initiatives in creative economics that is considered as a part of strategic development of our city.
In particular, it is built as triple helix of cooperation between University (NUWEE), city council and local businessmen. As a result we have activation of civic grassroots initiatives, hackathons, participation in international knowledge networks. To structure this movement we propose to rebirth former Volyn Fair (1920-30th) as a Volyn Design&Innovation Fair aimed on creation of urban entrepreneurship culture.