The Garden: An Emerging Culture Hub in Northern Portugal

Goals:

1. Humans coordinated and kind with self, other, and nature, augmented by technology
2. Reverse entropy

Our Vision

The Garden is a cultural accelerator, research institute, and creative campus in Northern Portugal. We're building a space that encourages innovation, personal growth, and new forms of collaboration. Our aim is to create an environment that's noticeably different from the outside world—one that inspires new ideas and cultural progress.

Our Mission

We strive to:

1. Create a dynamic environment that fosters four key interactions:
   • Connection with self
   • Connection with others
   • Creation by oneself
   • Creation with others
2. Serve as a catalyst for new ideas and cultural development.
3. Provide a playground for experimentation in living, working, and creating together.
4. Support dreams pragmatically by offering resources, guidance, and potential collaborators.
5. Develop a transdisciplinary space that combines elements of a makerspace, creative campus, and learning environment.
6. Create an open-source wiki of how to create the best reality.
7. Create a model that can be open-sourced in the future. Inspire new ways of being & projects.
   1. Model can include build, workshops, facilitation, org, knowledge base, etc.

Our Approach

1. Experimental and Data-Driven: We structure our space to learn from both successes and failures.
2. We are building a foundational layer of physical infrastructure to test & deploy ideas on top of. Here, the path from idea to reality is short & sweet.
3. Action-Oriented: We encourage immediate action and system-level thinking.