The Gymnasium hosts a series of “imagination conversations,” or “Tink Tanks” (“tinker” or “to make”)
bringing together a small group of creative thinkers across conventional sector boundaries
for a rich, facilitated exploration of an organizing critical question. 
When such an interdisciplinary ideation takes place across usual professional boundaries, what can happen?
What ideas, projects and opportunities can emerge?

The Gymnasium will host two "Tink Tanks” at each year.
These conversations will bring up to twenty people together from the arts, literary, urban planning, environmental sciences, design and agricultural fields (examples), and will have a similar energy to a design charrette,; they will be professionally facilitated to allow interaction in small groups around various idea hubs.  New relationships across sectors will be formed, and the ideas generated will be presented at
Studio 206 in Minneapolis to allow various industry leaders, urban planners, academics, curators and interested members of the public to view. The best ideas will become The Gymnasium’s focus for research and development in the coming year,
as we look for opportunities to match ideas to implementers.