This paper will discuss the lessons learned by an architect/educator and an artist/educator during the design and facilitation of a five-day collaborative workshop held in Kosice, Slovakia in April 2007. This project was initiated by IC Culture Train and the British Council and managed by KOD architects (Bratislava). The brief we were given by KOD Architects was to design and facilitate a cross-disciplinary process involving post-graduate students from the fields of design, architecture, philosophy and art. The results of the workshop would later form the basis for the design and construction of a ‘Speaker’s Corner’ in Kosice. The brief for the ‘Speaker’s Corner’ was based on the presumption that the ‘Speaker’s Corner’ in Hyde Park, London would be a valuable addition to the public realm of Kosice, Slovakia. The workshop was set up to provide ideas for the form and function of that space.