Apply to the Creative Residency here. If you’d rather just join us at Edge City India, you can apply here.
Know someone who’d be perfect for this cohort? Please send them this post. We’d love to see them in Goa.
We’re inviting video creators, writers, and other storytellers to live inside the Edge City India village for the full three weeks and create original work inspired by the people, ideas, and experiments taking shape around them.
We’re looking for creators with a distinctive voice, a strong body of work, and the curiosity to participate fully in the community. Residents have creative freedom to follow the stories that interest them; in return, we ask each person to create one meaningful anchor piece or a small body of work, publish from the experience, and collaborate with at least one other resident or part of the community.
Limited ticket, accommodation, and travel support may be available to selected creators, subject to sponsorship. Self-funded creators are welcome too.
Apply to the Creator Residency here.
Edge City is a society incubator, it gathers people working at the frontiers of technology, science, and culture into month-long popup villages around the world. Nine villages since 2023, more than 12,000 participants across four continents, from Edge Esmeralda in California to Edge City Lanna in Thailand to Edge City Patagonia in Argentina.
The four principles shaping every village are co-create and build, healthy by default, multigenerational, multidisciplinary.
October 11 to November 1, 2026. Mandrem Beach, North Goa. More info on Edge City India here.
We’ll gather hundreds of founders, builders, researchers, scientists, and creatives to live, work, and build together: coworking, daily programming and salons, 8 to 10 focused residencies, and a rhythm of movement, good food, and community. It’s our first village in India, and the next chapter in Edge City’s journey of building a global community.
What we look for is content and context creators, embedded for the full three weeks, with full creative freedom.
We don’t want to create a media team or a documentation crew. We want to give space to artists “in residence” whose subject happens to be a temporary city and the people co-creating it. The single strongest lesson from past villages is that proximity and living in the village produce the best work.
The point of the mix is that the same three weeks get metabolised into different ways, and the residency itself becomes a small demonstration of what the village is for.
This residency was built as a collaboration with The Modern Renaissance, a community for multipassionate people founded by Cesca Centini.
A personal body of work and style
Willingness to treat the community as collaborator, actively contributing to it
An anchor piece (for filmmakers, artists, musicians) or a handful of short pieces across three weeks (for content creators) and at least one collaboration with another resident or with the community, published on the creator’s own channels and on Edge City’s
The Video Creator Residency at Edge City Patagonia 2025, organised by Mariella Torres, brought four storytellers into the village.
Week 1 film by Jeffrey Sun, and the written Week 1 recap it anchored
Morning meditation and cold plunge with the Meditation Artifacts residency
Portrait of the local community in San Martín de los Andes
The Creator Residency: Apply to join here.
Edge City India: If you would rather just join with the rest of the village, apply here.
More on programming, site visits, and other details will come closer to the event. Follow us on X, LinkedIn, Instagram and here on Substack for updates.
For any questions, email centini.cesca@gmail.com
- The Edge City Team ☀️
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