¶ Overview
Edge City is a continuing series of "pop-up villages" founded by Janine Leger and Timour Kosters in 2024. Their locations vary and the number of full time attendees is around the dunbar number of 200-300, while in total over a thousand may visit. The description on their site as of 2024 is: "Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe. We aspire to be a ‘society and culture incubator’— an IRL lab of experimentation for new ideas, tech, culture, and organizations, all dedicated to accelerating human flourishing."
They have three "impact areas:"
- Encourage, educate and inspire attendees "to do the most impactful work of their lives."
- Incubate projects
- Advance governance and community models
Edge City is part of the ZuVillage lineage of pop-ups, with co-founder Janine Leger also organizing the original Zuzalu
¶ Past Pop-Ups
¶ 2024
¶ Edge Denver
- Week-long gathering during ETHDenver [Feb 26th - March 3rd].
- via edgecity.live
¶ Esmerelda
- A one-month village in Northern California in June [June 2nd - June 29th].
- https://edgeesmeralda.com/2024
- Now the site of a permanent Hub.
¶ Crecimento
- A one-month village in Argentina in August. [Aug 6th - Sep 6th]
- https://aleph.crecimiento.build/
¶ Lanna
- A village in Thailand [Oct 10th - Nov 10th].
- https://www.edgecity.live/lanna
¶ 2025 Timeline
¶ Future Locations
There was an interesting discussion at Edge Lanna 2024 about scouting future locations (slides here). Most of the locations were not on the slides, but are reproduced below along with the criteria to consider for a future location.
¶ Strategy
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Goal: grow a high quality, interesting diverse network with steady momentum
- 300-1000 person villages (300 full time, 1000 visitors)
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Nature
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Local people
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Culture
- Food
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Walkable
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Climate
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Visa difficulty
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Flight connectivity
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Safe
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Cost
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Infrastructure
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Facilities
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Accommodation
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City size
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Crypto friendliness
¶ Possibilities
These were tossed out by attendees of the meeting.
- Ponto do Sol, Madeira, Portugal
- Zermatt & Vispertermine, Switzerland
- Cape Town
- Coppenahagen
- Kreuzberg, Berlin
- Slovenia
- Menchuka
- KL / Penang
- La Fortuna, Costa Rica
- IFRANE, Morroco
- Chiang Mai
- Bali Indonesia
- Nozawa, Japan
- New Zealand
- Porto, Portugal
- Declining liberal arts colleges on U.S. east coast.