Announcing the Community Builders Residency

Apply to the Community Builders 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.

TLDR

• Apply here to join the Community Builders Residency

• A three-week residency built specifically for community builders: DAO operators, community managers, gathering organisers, citizenship-network builders, and people running physical or online spaces

• October 11 to November 1, 2026, in Mandrem, Goa, as part of Edge City India

• Hosted by Oddtable and Jungli the Nomad Village, community operators who’ve done this work themselves

• Peer-led workshops, a resident-shaped unconference, and behind-the-scenes access to how four Indian community operators run their spaces

• We’re accepting applications on a rolling basis. Got questions? oddtablelife@gmail.com or divi@junglithenomad.com

The internet has made it possible to build communities from anywhere, but it hasn’t made it any easier to build ones that last. Now, almost every community builder is asking the same question: what makes people stick around?

For three weeks in October, we’re bringing together community managers, DAO operators, gathering organisers, citizenship-network builders, and people running physical spaces. Everyone approaches the same challenges through a different lens, and everyone arrives with something to share.

The Community Builders Residency at Edge City India, hosted by Oddtable and Jungli the Nomad Village, is where those lenses meet.

The setup

The cohort lives together at Oddtable’s co-living space in Mandrem, with full access to everything Edge City India offers: coworking, community meals, wellness programming, talks, workshops, and hundreds of builders, researchers, and creatives across the three-week popup village. The basics are covered so residents can focus on the work.

Mornings are for deep work alongside the cohort. Afternoons turn into workshops, conversations, and collaborative problem-solving. Evenings drift into shared dinners, potlucks, and the kinds of conversations that continue long after the session ends.

Oddtable runs a co-living hub in Mandrem built around gathering. Jungli the Nomad Village runs longer-form community programming across India. Between them, the residency has hosts who’ve spent years running exactly the kind of gatherings the cohort is here to talk about.

What’s included

• Coworking & Deep Work: Shared work sessions throughout the residency.

• Cross-Community Learning: Peer-led workshops and conversations.

• Physical Infrastructure: Exposure to how Jungli the Nomad Village, NomadGao, Build3, and Oddtable operate community spaces in India.

• Unconference & Local Immersion: Resident-led sessions, moving through Mandrem, Ashwem, and Panjim beyond the residency house

The three week program

Week 1 sets the shared foundation: Community introductions, a Hero’s Journey workshop, a Physical Communities panel with Jungli, NomadGao, Build3, and Oddtable, a Brand Evangelism workshop, and an AI for Experience workshop.

Weeks 2 and 3 are shaped by the residents themselves: A resident-led unconference, community dinners and potlucks, treks and café hopping around Mandrem and Ashwem, and a History Day in Panjim.

Who should apply

This residency is for people who actively build communities, online, offline, or somewhere in between. Community managers, DAO operators, gathering organisers, citizenship-network builders, and people running physical or online spaces where others gather, contribute, and return.

No matter what you're building, we want residents who show up to share what they know and to learn from the room. The best cohorts are the ones where the group leaves knowing more collectively than any one person walked in with.

If that's the kind of room you want to be in, we'd love to have you in this residency.

Pricing

Residency (housing + program + coworking):

• 1 week: $500

• 2 weeks: $800

• 3 weeks: $1150

Commuter Pass (selected program + coworking, no accommodation):

• 1 week: $100

• 3 weeks: $200

An Edge City India Access Pass is required separately.

If you have questions, want to sponsor the residency, or want to bring your own community into it, reach out to oddtablelife@gmail.com or divi@junglithenomad.com.

About Oddtable and Jungli

Oddtable and Jungli the Nomad Village both run physical spaces built around gathering. Oddtable’s co-living space in Mandrem is designed to slow people down and put them in the same room. Jungli the Nomad Village runs an application-only nomad village and coliving in the jungles of Karnataka, inland from Goa, where over 650 nomads, artists, and builders have come to live and work since 2024. Between them, this residency has hosts who’ve spent years running exactly the kind of gatherings the cohort is here to talk about.

About Edge City India

Edge City India is a three-week popup village on the beaches of Mandrem, Goa, running October 11 to November 1, 2026. It brings together hundreds of founders, builders, researchers, scientists, and creatives to live and work together. It’s the Indian edition of a global series of popup villages, and the first time the Edge City community lands in India.

About Edge City

Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe. We’re building a society incubator: an IRL lab of experimentation for new ideas, technology, culture, and institutions, all aimed at accelerating human flourishing. Over 12,000 people have participated across previous gatherings.

Apply to Join

The Community Builder 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 on Substack for updates.

- The Edge City Team ☀️

Join us at Edge City India

Come live, work, and build with us in Mandrem, Goa, October 11–November 1, 2026. Apply to join Edge City India.

Want to help make the village possible? Reach out to sponsor Edge City India.

Originally published on Edge City India’s Substack.