Regen Haus at Edge City 2025: Building Regenerative Community in Patagonia

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

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Between October 18 and November 15, we were part of Edge City Patagonia, a pop-up city that brought together more than 600 people from 72 countries in San Martín de los Andes.

For NetX State, it was far more than an event: it became a strategic meeting point and the second stop of the Regen Pathway 2025.

Watch the documentary video made by Anthony, one of the residents!

Regen Haus: home, regenerative hub and meeting point

We coordinated the Regen Haus, our residence at La Fontaine, a beautiful Andean hotel whose garden inspired everyone throughout the month. With a river flowing behind the property, a quincho with a fire always burning, and a warm team supporting us, it immediately became our home.

We lived there with 25 people for an entire month. And yes, we really lived together. We cooked, hosted asados, coworked, created, rested, talked for hours, and supported one another.

La Fontaine allowed us something essential: to live and work without separating “event mode” from “life mode.”

‍That balance changed everything. Between lake walks, deep-focus work sessions, long breakfasts and late-night conversations, the house became a living ecosystem.

It was the result of more than eight months of preparation: an early alliance with Edge City, followed by territorial scouting, location analysis, narrative design, coordination with other residencies, and a lot of logistics.

Wellbeing was at the center: breathwork, yoga, meditation and sound sessions became part of the daily routine, not as an extra, but as the foundation that sustained the rhythm of the month.

Regen Hub: week-by-week journey

Week 1

The first week was for grounding, adjusting rhythms, getting to know one another and understanding the territory.

During Week 1 we hosted the Asado Kick Off, our first big activation: more than 50 people from all over the world sharing Argentine food, knowledge, stories, and expectations about what we were building together.

Week 2

‍Week 2 was one of the most strategic moments of the residency. It began with an open talk on Argentina’s history, political context, and evolving geostrategic potential as a key territory for regenerative development joined by 20+ people from both the global resident group and the local community.

We channeled that same drive into the Local Organizations Workshop, where over 40 people (entrepreneurs from San Martín and participants from more than 15 countries) worked together on real-world needs of local organizations.

The REC case study, which successfully calibrated hearing aids with the help of an African resident without requiring a trip to Buenos Aires, along with advancements in community fire alert systems and the launch of a prototype for cosmo-local regenerative finance, demonstrated the true power of connecting global talent with local challenges.

We also gathered 16+ people for a Regen Real Estate session and land visits exploring San Martín de los Andes as a potential site for the first regenerative neighborhood in Argentina. This was the week where collaboration moved from concept to concrete action on the territory.

Week 3

By Week 3 we were fully comfortable, settled into the house, the mountain, and the pulse of Edge City. Trust allowed ideas to flow with more clarity and depth.

The central moment of the week was the What’s the Future of Network Societies? panel, which brought together 53 participants and an especially compelling audience.

We were joined by voices such as: Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) | Anastasia Kalinina (reState), | Chance Mac Allister (Plumia) | Monty Merlin (ReFi Coordi-Nation) | Lovisa Bjorna (Blockchain Gov / Argentina On Chain) | Telamon Ardavanis (Edge City).

It was an open conversation about how people and organizations are rethinking how we live, cooperate, and self-organize.

Week 4

‍Week 4 synthesized everything we had experienced, a time for closing processes, organizing ideas, and aligning a shared vision with global regenerative allies such as Monty Merlin (ReFi DAO) and Adina Popescu (Aerth).

The Planetary Intelligence session gathered 26 participants to dive deeper into more human, nature-aligned forms of collective thinking and coordination.

The emotional closure came with the screening of El Futuro Imposible, an Argentine documentary with strong educational impact.

Martin Haas, the film’s writer and director, traveled from Bariloche to join the screening.

Together with 36 attendees, many of them students from IPEP 21, we watched the full series.

A simple, meaningful end to a month that left a clear message: the transition is already underway, and what we created in Patagonia will continue beyond Edge City.

Our balance: Wellness practices throughout the month

Throughout our stay we hosted 60+ wellbeing sessions: yoga in nature, meditation, sound healing and tarot, open to residents and participants from other residencies.

These spaces became a true collective anchor. Every time the pace accelerated, we returned to the body, the breath, and the silence.

This care was a fundamental part of the regenerative culture at the Regen Haus.

Edge City’s impact on our Regen Pathway 2025

Edge City left us with concrete outcomes and deeply human learnings:

• We validated that a regenerative coliving is truly possible: a diverse community living for a month under principles of wellbeing, cooperation and conscious design.
• We forged meaningful alliances with global actors shaping the future of regeneration: ReFi DAO, Edge City, Argentina On Chain, among others.
• We confirmed that the cosmolocal approach works and has enormous potential to scale.
• And we left with a strategic certainty: San Martín de los Andes is a key territory for what comes next.

Above all, we ended with a community that is stronger, more conscious, and more connected.

In the end, that’s what gives purpose to the Regen Pathway: to collaborate, create, and plant seeds, not just memories.

Key Stats | Regen Haus

✨ 25 international residents lived together for an entire month
✨ 150+ participants joined our open activities (talks, workshops, panels, screenings)
✨ 60+ people joined wellbeing practices (yoga, meditation, sound healing, tarot)
✨ Dozens of cosmolocal connections between global talent and local organizations
✨ 1 regenerative residency functioning as an active node within a temporary city of 600+ people

From the Regen Haus in Patagonia to the Regen Hub at Devconnect

We went straight from San Martín de los Andes to Buenos Aires to co-create the Regen Hub at Devconnect BA, where we shared everything learned in Brazil and Patagonia with the global community arriving in our country, and continued learning, connecting and expanding our purpose.

‍We tell you all about it in the next note.

Regen Pathway 2026

With everything we learned this year, we are now designing the Regen Pathway 2026, where we will create new residencies and regenerative nodes throughout LATAM. This journey will include new pop-up cities, on-territory residencies, Regen Hubs and ReFi labs.

‍Support the Regen Pathway 2026 through donations that help us offer scholarships and enable new activations.

We are also receiving contributions for the Localism of the Andes project, a regenerative finance pilot for entrepreneurs in San Martín de los Andes initiated during Edge City.

Your support helps seed the first bioregional regenerative fund in the Global South, showing how collective intelligence and decentralized collaboration can generate real, on-the-ground transformation.

‍Contact us!

netxstate@gmail.com