There are plenty of frameworks about collaboration. Some are smart but abstract. Some are warm but vague. Some sound convincing in a slide deck, yet disappear the moment a real conflict enters the room.
Radical Collaboration is one of the few approaches we keep coming back to. Not because it is perfect. But because it is useful.
We love it because it makes collaboration tangible.
To help European Ocean Days capture and recap key discussions across a complex, multi-day programme, Visuality created live visual harvests during the opening ceremony and selected policy panels. Despite limited briefing and a mid-project handover between visual harvesters, the boards remained consistent and helped participants reconnect with the event’s main themes around fisheries, aquaculture, and ocean diplomacy.
Uncover the real value of visual harvesting. It’s more than creative; it strategically enhances collaboration and collective insights.
A strong visual harvester isn’t just there to “make a pretty picture.” They’re there to make the conversation usable. While people talk, they build a shared map on the wall: what’s important, where the choices sit, what’s still fuzzy, and what the group can actually take forward.
If you’ve ever left a workshop thinking, “That was a great conversation… but what did we actually decide?” — you already understand the problem visual harvesting solves.
Visual harvesting is the practice of capturing live conversations in a visual format: key ideas, decisions, tensions, patterns, and next steps — all turned into a clear, structured visual that a group can actually use.
Citizens have a lot to say about how we can build a healthier, more caring system and the Caruna Zorgtop set out to make those voices count. Together with Whocares and CM, Christelijke Mutualiteit hosted Belgium’s largest citizen dialogue on health and care, bringing 100 discussion tables across 13 themes into one participatory summit. Our role was to create a visual backbone that could hold that scale: a live harvesting system that captured ideas in real time and turned hundreds of contributions into clear, shareable visual insights for the next steps.