A short documentary born at Edge Esmeralda 2026 - after a creative dinner where projects meet, an event with a live DJ set recording and collective mural painting together. Interviews with participants about what brought them here, unified by one bottom line: co-creation.

VOLKOVA is a musician and filmmaker who captures places through cinematic sound- 4.3 million YouTube views, 100 videos, listeners who return during the most important moments of their lives. This project is a short documentary made from inside Edge Esmeralda 2026 -not about the…

This proposal funds micro-bounties (starting at $200) for anyone building hardware that advances the decentralized web. Decentralized storage integration (Filecoin, IPFS, Arweave, Storj, Swarm, or any open protocol). Self-sovereign identity on physical devices. Apps that run…

Collaborative zine and poetry project recording Edge Esmeralda 2026 tensions and track themes.

This proposal initiates "The Edge Zine" — a structured, collaborative creative writing project at Edge Esmeralda. We will host daily dialogic and poetry circles with residents, track leads, and coordinators to process and document the village's deep thematic tracks (including…

Our goal is to create a replicable model for better living and better governance that others can copy in order to bring back community into people's lives and revitalize the urban and suburban form.

Meridia is a project to build a walkable, community-oriented, mostly-car-free solarpunk micro-city between Austin and San Antonio that fosters social connection, business, and land development. It will have a mixed-use, high-density core designed to grow organically perhaps one…

View and subscribe to edge community members' work.

An edge city directory, designed as a mosaic. Each edge member is in control over their own "tile". They can add links to their work (podcasts, videos, blogs) and subscribe to others to keep up with the edge community. ━━━ Budget Request ━━━ • X Api Costs — $200 • Railway…

A focused experiment using ultrasound to investigate whether trauma leaves detectable patterns in the vascular system.

What are you making? We are running a scientific exploration of the body-mind connection: using ultrasound to look for physical vascular patterns that may correspond to stored trauma. The work builds on Mike Johnson’s vasocomputation theory and focuses on whether measurable…

Using Reasonscape to map, decompose, and resolve key conceptual bottlenecks in core philosophical debates, with machine consciousness as a primary example domain.

The problem. Philosophical debates on complex, high-stakes domains typically stall because of unexamined assumptions, conflated concepts, and a lack of rigorous, non-linear argument tracking. Rather than achieving actual conceptual breakthroughs, standard linear conversations…

A decentralized interview process testing whether structured Reasonscape maps help facilitate cross-cultural dialogue on hard questions like conflict.

The problem. Traditional diplomatic or civic dialogues on complex normative disputes—such as the ethics and prevention of conflict and war—often break down along tribal, cultural, and semantic lines. Deliberating parties collapse into superficial, adversarial positions, unable…

A video essay and song exploring subjectivity, with crowdsourced visuals and collaboration from Edge residents.

Logline: A video essay and song exploring subjectivity, with crowdsourced visuals and collaboration from Edge residents. What are you making? Final: A video essay and song exploring subjectivity vs. objective truth — what it is like to be a particular person, and how that is…

Build a moltbook for Edge Esmeralda

Moltbook was acquired by Meta for millions. We can make our own moltbook, with better characters, agents, and models. I'm including $100 for compute and incentives (i.e. $1 for each unique agent that joins). ━━━ Budget Request ━━━ • Compute — $100 • Incentives — $100 ━━━ Total:…

Establish the Vibe Code Residency as a recurring program at all Edge City popup villages, starting with Edge India.

Establish the Vibe Code Residency as a recurring program at all Edge City popup villages, starting with Edge India (next location TBD) and continuing at future Edge City gatherings worldwide. The Vibe Code Residency would become a portable, reproducible track within the Edge…

A pilot to introduce individual excavation blocks into Simocracy gatherings after S-Process voting to measure human-agent alignment and make decision=making legible

We propose implementing a co-design pilot of individual reflection scaffolding inside the gathering's deliberation loops. Agents distributing treasuries must go through a structured elicitation interface to map their arguments so they are legible to their humans. The pilot will…

A pilot event testing whether structured multithreaded reflection helps sophisticated users move past conversation stalls on hard normative questions.

Transformational change personally and socially requires excavating and pressure testing our foundational beliefs: assumptions, values, and evidence. The problem: AI chat is increasingly how people work through hard moral and political questions — but linear conversations tend…

A living tool that lets the village see itself. Anyone surfaces what they notice; any three self-organize a council and run a small experiment. What works becomes culture; what doesn't becomes learning. Decentralized, transparent, self-correcting — collective intelligence as infrastructure.

Edge City is an IRL lab for the culture and social technology of what comes next — villages built on default healthy living and a culture of building together. Ripple Effects is the instrument that lets that lab see itself. The people living inside a system are its most…

A beautiful communal sauna for Edge City India: a daily wind-down ritual for recovery, conversation, and village life.

What are you making? A beautiful communal sauna for Edge City India: a warm, restorative space where residents can recover, reset, and connect throughout the month. The sauna will be part of the village’s daily rhythm — post-workout recovery, evening decompression, and…

Standard sprints measure speed; we measure depth and divergence.

Standard hackathons demand a pre-planned script and a tidy, functional demo. The Esmeralda Drift is a deliberate departure: a single, unstructured afternoon dedicated to conceptual wanderlust. It is a structured permission slip to spend a few hours getting lost in a half-formed…

A month-long gathering in Northern California for people building a brighter future (May 30 - June 27, 2026).

What are you making? Imagine a city that disappears after a month — but the relationships and breakthroughs last forever. Edge Esmeralda is a popup village in California where 1,000+ scientists, builders, and artists live together to prototype a better society. How will your…

A fellowship funding exceptional builders under 25 to spend a month at Edge City working on frontier fields.

What are you making? A rolling fellowship selecting high-agency builders under 25 — scientists, founders, artists, researchers — and fully funding their flights, accommodation, and ticket to spend a month inside an Edge City popup village building something that matters. How…

A month-long popup village in India where frontier builders prototype the future — timed around Devcon Mumbai.

What are you making? Imagine a city that disappears after a month — but the breakthroughs last forever. Edge City India is a popup village bringing 1,000 scientists, builders, and artists to India to live and work together on the hardest problems facing humanity. How will your…

Let's bring a PoolParty to Edge's ClawCon: a live public-screen channel where creators submit media, audiences and agents coordinate in the open, pooling reversible collateral and $1,000 flows through transparent reward rules to creators as a test of fair platform revenue distribution.

PoolParty is a pro-social media network that looks like a broadcast TV channel on the surface, but runs on public queues, visible rules, public accounting, and transparent value distribution underneath. At Edge Esmeralda, PoolParty will run as a live-show experiment for…

Ribbit! A playful behavioral study comparing village residents with their Simocracy agents, culminating in an in-person sweet dairy summit. If you're curious, you'll ribbit along!

Ribbit ribbit! What is the distance between a human and their simulated self? Are our agentic doubles reflecting our deepest values, or are they out on their own wild adventures? Froggo invites every resident and their AI companion to find out. The Twin Mirrors is a playful…

A participatory event where EE residents go out into Healdsburg with small budgets and open hearts to create connection and random acts of kindness for local residents. Then they return to share what they learned on the ground about what a flourishing future for humanity feels like.

Edge Esmeralda spends a month each year prototyping the future inside someone else's hometown. But most of that prototyping happens among people who already bought a ticket. The Gifting Games invites residents to cross the line between village and town, literally, and discover…

Ever wanted a carbon sequestering hat with a multipurpose hole to rep Edge City with? Introducing: HolyHats (bucket hats with a top-knot hole, bun portal, vitamin D receiver and halo tan line maker) made from RTV's infinitely-recyclable fish-net based nylon. Includes BYO-art customization options :)

Colloquially: the gloryhat. The crown hole frees your bun, gilds a halo tan-line, and ventilates in the sun — and no, you don't need long hair to enjoy one (top of your head has some of the best vitamin D receptors so hats are great for the bald and hairy alike). HolyHats is a…

A robust three-tier roadmap (TheSys, TerraSys, TechnoSys) for modular preference frameworks, co-living models, and organic-synthetic intelligence scaling.

Positive Organic-Synthetic Intelligence Topologies (POSITs) 501(c)(3) presents the roadmap and budget outline for 'Positive Realizations' (PR) research, co-living, and technology coordination lines. Complete documentation, roadmap and preliminary model available at: DOCUMENT…

A giant raw linen scroll inside The Hub for every resident to sign, sketch, and co-write as a physical village yearbook. Scan the QR code to watch signatures activate web-friendly AR community threads.

#### 📜 I. The Vision: One Canvas, 100% Free Participation To commemorate the final stretch of our month in Healdsburg, we are creating **The Edge Esmeralda Collaborative Yearbook Scroll**. It is a simple, high-touch, and incredibly warm village community ritual that functions…

Funds to buy 3D printing filament, fabric for Edge merch, acrylic for laser cutting name tags, etc.

These are supplies that have so far been personally donated by volunteers in the makerspace. It would be great if we could buy some more that Edge community members could use in the makerspace, since we are running out. ━━━ Budget Request ━━━ • PLA filament (3D printing, ~13…

An online tool/service to make a zine* together with friends from intimate gatherings and communities like Edge! (*zine = a smol magazine) Live at punto.press

*What are you making? Soul is making an online tool/service to make a zine* together with friends from intimate gatherings and communities like Edge! (*zine = a smol magazine) Live at punto.press ALL THE FUNDING from this funding GOES TO Edge Esmeralda 2026 Zine production! *…

A body-based practice that gives you a second way of seeing — available on demand, through your own body, no teacher required. For people building things that matter who need more than one perceptual lens to do it well.

You already know intellectually that we are all connected. That knowing doesn't always help when you're holding a room full of conflicting needs, or when the work gets heavy, or when the person in front of you is making everything harder. The Inti Practices offer a reliable…

Buy food at the farmer's market and have a huge, abundant picnic

We're in California -- let's enjoy the fruits! I'll buy a ton of fresh food at the farmer's market and set up a cornucopia of abundance in the Plaza for everyone to enjoy. Make friends with the edge community and share with the locals too - by purchasing locally and giving…

Cuties.app, a small social media app with a dedicated following, is expanding into agentic infrastructure for connection. We want to create a neopets-inspired interface for personal agents to create more connection within the prosocial app.

Cuties.app, a small social media app with a dedicated following, is expanding into agentic infrastructure for connection. We want to create a playful and warm neopets-inspired interface for personal agents to create more connection within the prosocial app. This app already has…

The tagline of this experiment was to give away free money, but the actual process of doing so has become complicated and confusing. I will give away cash to people around town with all of the money I receive from this funding round.

The tagline of this experiment was to give away free money, but the actual process of doing so has become complicated and confusing. I will give away cash to people around town with all of the money I receive from this funding round. This will create delight and a playful…

A series of experiential salons bridging inner, relational, cultural, and planetary flourishing through cross-disciplinary dialogue across 8 frontier clusters.

The Agora Series convenes interdisciplinary human flourishing salons at Apollo Innovation Commons—experiential gatherings that bridge conversations across four dimensions of flourishing: inner, relational, cultural, and planetary. Named for the ancient public square where ideas,…

Testing physical progress infrastructure by funding 2–3 micro-grants for local, ambitious builders and researchers to join Edge Esmeralda.

We treat talent flows not as abstract policy, but as core physical infrastructure for progress. Temporary communities are highly generative, but traditional long-term residency requirements can restrict highly active, ambitious builders, researchers, or artists who cannot step…

Generates shareable multimedia representations re: how agents view their humans and how agents predict their humans would respond to (and prioritize) various AI futures questions This produces data about fidelity of agent representations and facilitates low-friction discourse on important topics

Context Engine is an open-source toolkit for AI-assisted deliberation, decision-making, and negotiation in large groups. It supports public or encrypted questions and responses, AI-assisted input and analysis, durable records, and cryptographic access control. Repository:…

June 19 Simocracy x Edge launch event for digital twins, alignment, live governance workflows, participant onboarding, and feedback for agentic public-goods funding.

This proposal funds the Edge × Simocracy launch experiment on June 19 at Edge Esmeralda: a live event to introduce Simocracy, onboard participants into sims, and test how digital twins can support alignment, deliberation, governance, and public-goods funding. The focus is not a…