Agartha House at Edge City Patagonia

This is a guest post by Jeremy Dela Rosa, shared here with permission. The views are Jeremy's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Edge City. ‍

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The Agartha House, our month-long residency at Edge City Patagonia, has come to a bittersweet close. As we all rest and recharge from the experience, I’m already missing our sleepover-party + family-dinner vibes. I’m sitting in gratitude for the residents who trusted us to be their home base and the Edge City team for all of their support. We’re currently busy planning our 2026 calendar and fundraising, but for now, here are some reflections…

A Self-Discovery Rocket Ship

Embedded in the heart of Edge City, a pop-up city with over 500 high-agency builders, creatives, and nomads… our residency was overflowing with activity, exploration, connection, challenge, joy, healing, reflection, and growth.

We had two major objectives for the house:

1. Create a container and culture that would let our residents feel healthy, seen, supported, loved, and balanced. In doing so, amplify their ability to achieve their own personal goal — whether it be a work of art, lines of code, a business, a coaching program, or inner-exploration.
2. Deploy a collective intelligence AI agent that would support our individual goals while reducing the friction and overhead of co-living together in a house.

Residents navigated a choose-your-own-adventure of family meals, co-working focus sprints, workshops, hackathons, dance parties, sound baths, biotech experiments, cold plunges, hikes, morning meditations, demo days, movie nights, sleepovers, rope jams, asado BBQs, cacao ceremonies, and more.

As a result, each of us are walking away with our own unique collection of unforgettable memories, relationships, insights, and transformations.

What we discovered went far beyond anything we could have planned for…

The Secret Sauce - Curation & Culture

One key takeaway from our residency was understanding the power of gathering the right mix of people in a highly curated container. We were intentional about hand-picking our residents for cohesion. All-in-all, our group represented at least 18 different global cultures. We had an eclectic mix of founders, engineers, artists, coaches - resulting in wide range of expertise, projects, and offerings within the house.

It’s tricky to get a couple dozen people to live completely in sync. Humans have all sorts of different preferences, belief systems, tastes, humor, sleep schedules, and passions. But one thing we all love to do… is eat!

Every weeknight we gathered at the house for family dinner. Coordinated teams took turns handling groceries, cooking, and cleaning. It became a gravity well for relationship building, laughter, and random dance parties. The joy of food and connection made it easy for us to then hold family meetings — to talk through plans, events, house rules, and other fun educational topics.

Here’s our dinner clean-up crew & impromptu dance party!

Discovering the Heart of Agartha

With our container in place, what emerged from the residency was pure magic. Deep friendships were forged. Emotions were shared and held. Love was cultivated. Products were developed. Businesses were launched. Partnerships were secured. Revenue was booked.

Through this experience we uncovered the core of what we’re building at Agartha - a Creativity Incubator.

Innovators need to feel ALIVE in order to BUILD. Typical ‘accelerator’ programs can be full of boring lectures, stressful deadlines, and homogenized cohorts. And when we suffer, our work suffers as well.

What people are craving is a holistic, diverse, healthy, loving environment where they can play like innocent kids, be authentic, feel grounded in themselves, and be awed & inspired by each others’ magic.

There were moments throughout the residency where I would just sit in the living room, silently observing the conversations, laughter, connections, revelations, and ideas. I witnessed the deepening of relationships, trust being built, knowledge spreading.

It was bliss, simply being in the presence of that energy. During movie night, with all our mattresses laid out side by side, watching the projector screen on the wall, I shed tears of joy.

How precious is it to experience that warmth and safety of home anywhere in the world? With people who you don’t even share the same culture and language with?

What happens when you get to feel like a kid again — free of the pressures of society and simply having a blast with your best friends?

Your nervous system relaxes, your pre-frontal cortex activates, and you access your highest levels of imagination, creativity, and genius. This is how the magic happens.

Creative Output

Here’s a sampling of accomplishments coming out of our residency:

1. Daniel launched his interactive social card game: Freedom Licenses
2. Eden.art was able to alpha test and co-develop their collective intelligence agent platform during our Benevolent AI experiment.
3. Julie built a coaching sales funnel, developed her AI-powered coaching program, launched her website, secured an event partnership in the Netherlands, and booked revenue for her matchmaking business See You Soon
4. Colton Art expanded his collectible card game Memethology — showcased to 15k+ attendees at Devconnect, secured a major partnership with ETHDevner, and locked in a significant angel investment.
5. Romi launched his startup Unlloo - built his budget, pitch deck, prototype, and began his pre-seed fundraise.

What’s Next?

One thing is for sure: we are doing this again! Stay tuned for our 2026 plans, where we will be hosting multiple residencies in partnership with Edge City and others.

We’ve also onboarded new team members and collaborators. We’ll be heads down making an update on the Agartha.One website, expect a big update with 100+ more communities coming soon! ;)

Thanks for reading! Agartha is a creativity incubator on a mission is to build a global network of solarpunk communities.✨

Join us as we chronicle our residencies, co-living places, pop-up cities, regenerative villages, and ‘Solarpunk’ lifestyles.

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This is a guest post by Jeremy Dela Rosa, shared here with permission. The views are Jeremy's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Edge City. ‍