Territoire Nations | Garage Chronicles #3: Diplomacy, City, Neighbourhood — What Do We Share?

  • Des événements culturels et participatifs pour accompagner l’évolution urbaine, écologique et sociale de la Genève internationale
    © Departement du Territoire

🌐🤲 As part of the Territoire Nations project, the series of meetings at Garage Braillard continues with a day dedicated to international organisations and their integration into the Nations area. This third gathering aims to bring international institutions and civil society closer together by focusing on places, archives, and infrastructures that shape the relationships between diplomacy, the city, and the neighbourhood.

 

🗓️📍 Programme - 19 February 2026
  • 📚🕊️🏛️ | 12:15–1:45 pm: Visit to the ICRC Archives — Avenue de la Paix 19, 1202 Geneva 
    The ICRC archives are an important heritage for the Nations district. This visit offers an opportunity to explore this often unseen place of memory and work, and to engage in a discussion about the meaning of this shared heritage in a neighbourhood where local and global issues intersect
     
  • 🥗☕ | A complimentary lunch follows at Garage Braillard 
     
  • 🍸🎶🌆 | 6:00–8:00 pm: Nations Afterwork at Garage Braillard — Rue de Montbrillant 96, 1202 Geneva 
    Observatory “Hyper-urbanity – Hyper-rurality: Who Is Looking at Whom?”, an installation by Serge Boulaz that questions the boundaries between public and private space in an international context shaped by security arrangements
     
  • 🚋🛣️🔄 | Discussion on mobility and transforming infrastructures, including projects such as the Tram des Nations, Avenue de la Paix, Route de Lausanne / Route de Suisse, with a focus on the Reposoir Tunnel — an infrastructure of passage that also represents a social, cultural, and symbolic issue 
     

Registration / information: contact@territoire-nations.ch
 
🌳 🏡  Looking back at the "Territoir des Nations" project 

The “Territoire Nations” project continues and expands upon the “Jardin des Nations” study completed in 2022. This new initiative builds on that momentum by turning the area into a living territorial laboratory, where biodiversity, hospitality, culture, and cooperation intersect. It aims to support the urban, ecological, and social evolution of International Geneva through progressive, cultural, and participatory activations, conceived as collective experiments in living together and in strengthening the relationship between the city and nature. The project draws on existing sites—greenhouses, gardens, a tunnel, and the Garage Braillard—to test shared uses, enhance conviviality, and prefigure the future development of the neighborhood.

The “Territoire Nations” project aims to:

  • Connect public spaces, actors of International Geneva, local institutions, and the population around a shared project
  • Enhance landscapes and living heritage by strengthening biodiversity and the site’s ecological quality
  • Encourage the participation of associations and institutions present in the area, as well as local residents
  • Activate existing sites through light, reversible, and collective interventions
  • Prefigure the future development of the International District with a focus on sustainability and social inclusion

Several public events are being rolled out across the Nations area at Garage Braillard, a venue made available by the Swiss Foundation for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

 

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