Edge City

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.

In his December 2025 essay Let a thousand societies bloom, Vitalik Buterin wrote: "One of the Zu spinoffs, Edge City, has perfected a pipeline of organizing them, and I have heard that they are at this point a cash-flow-positive business."

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

Sove.re discussion.

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.

Links

• https://www.edgecity.live/
• Twitter
  • https://xcancel.com/joinedgecity
  • RSS: https://xcancel.com/joinedgecity/rss