Garden Talks
Take the conversation outdoors.
Garden Talks are 20-minute unplugged sessions happening in a relaxed outdoor setting designed to encourage dialogue, reflection, and spontaneous exchange. Taking place in an analogue environment, away from screens and presentations, they offer a refreshing alternative to traditional conference sessions and create a more intimate space for direct interaction between speakers and participants.
Hosted under the garden pavilion, Garden Talks bring together Living Lab practitioners, researchers, innovators, and community leaders to share experiences, discuss challenges, and spark meaningful conversations in an informal atmosphere.
Whether presenting a project, sharing an experience, or provoking discussion around a key challenge, Garden Talks are designed to inspire new ideas, connections, and collaborations.
Garden Tools
Explore. Experience. Play.
Located alongside the Garden Talks area, Garden Tools is a dedicated outdoor space for participants to discover and experience innovative tools, games, canvases, methodologies, and engagement techniques used by Living Labs and innovation practitioners.
The space offers hands-on opportunities to learn, exchange experiences, and explore practical approaches that can be applied in different Living Lab contexts. From board games and co-creation methods to facilitation techniques and participatory frameworks, these tools and methods bring learning by doing to life.
Designed as an informal experimentation area, Garden Tools encourages peer learning, exchange of practices, and the discovery of approaches that participants can bring back to their own Living Labs and organisations. Garden Tools sessions can be booked for one-hour slots throughout the conference.
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Want to play a board game, share an idea, or test an innovative tool?
Together, Garden Talks and Garden Tools transform the outdoor terrace into a vibrant space for conversation, experimentation, and collaboration, bringing the Living Lab spirit beyond the conference rooms.
Both Garden Talks and Garden Tools will be available for on-the-spot bookings throughout the conference, giving participants the opportunity to create their own moments of exchange, experimentation, and engagement in an informal outdoor setting.