Edventures × Edge City
Three weeks in a village of builders, with your whole family
Edge City India is a three-week popup village on Mandrem Beach in North Goa, where hundreds of founders, researchers, and creatives live, work, and build together. It is multigenerational by design. Your children are not a logistics problem to solve. They are part of the village.
Golden-hour deep work, steps from the Arabian Sea.
Why we are pointing families here
The rarest thing in worldschooling: a real community, already assembled
Most family travel means building your community from scratch in every new city. Edge City flips that. For three weeks, hundreds of founders, builders, researchers, scientists, and creatives move into one village: coworking, daily programming and salons, 8 to 10 focused residencies, movement, good food, and neighbors worth knowing. It lands in India for the first time, in a country that is home to one of the world's largest and fastest-growing builder communities, and to living traditions of Ayurveda, yoga, and the study of consciousness that few other places offer. October into November is the start of Goa's dry season, right after the monsoon: lush green landscapes, warm ocean, clear days.
Village life
What a day looks like
The rhythm is simple and humane. It is a working village, not a conference, and the days are built to be lived in as a family.
Mornings
Movement and nature
Mornings start with movement or time in nature. Yoga on an open deck, a swim, a walk down a beach that is still waking up.
Afternoons
Deep work at The Circle
Afternoons are for deep coworking and collaboration at The Circle, the beach-facing hub at the center of the village.
Evenings
Talks, demos, dinners
Evenings bring fireside talks, workshops, demo days, and self-organized dinners. The best conversations tend to start after dark.
Bring the whole family
Multigenerational by design
“Partners, children, and grandparents are all welcome.”
From the Edge City India FAQ. Their stated principle: a community from toddlers to centenarians.
This is what makes Edge City different from every other builder gathering we have looked at. Children are expected residents of the village, present at meals, on the beach, and in the flow of daily life alongside people building at the frontier. For a worldschooling family, that is three weeks of the education you cannot buy by the hour.
Edge Tomorrow: the children's program is confirmed
Edge Tomorrow is the village's intergenerational creative program for children and teens, and it is running at Edge City India. Children get a project environment of their own, supported by facilitators and the founders, artists, and technologists around them, with projects that grow from their interests: an imaginary city, a business, a film, a giant installation. Ages 4–13 join the core environment; teens 14–17 participate and take on leadership roles. Come for one week or all three.
The proof it works: at Edge City's California village this summer, 32 children from 22 families built a cardboard city of 66 structures, ran three businesses of their own, and produced their own events for the village.
The frontier, in small groups
Who you will be living next to
The village organizes itself into small groups building around shared frontiers. Founders, builders, researchers, scientists, and creatives, working in the open, with the door left ajar for curious children and their parents.
Eight to ten focused residencies run through the village, and the first are announced: a Community Builders Residency for people who run communities for a living, and a storytellers residency for filmmakers and writers making work about what the village is building. There is even a Road to Edge caravan, October 1–11, winding 1,000 km from Bangalore through South India's farms and regenerative villages to arrive as Goa opens.
9
popup villages since 2023
12,000+
builders worldwide
1st
Edge City village in India
“Edge City did an excellent job integrating diverse participants from all kinds of background: technical and non-technical, crypto, biotech and culture, young and old.”Vitalik Buterin
The practical facts
What you are signing up for
When and where
October 11 to November 1, 2026. Three weeks on Mandrem Beach in the quieter stretch of North Goa, India, with The Circle, a beach-facing coworking hub, at the center of village life.
Your ticket includes
- All programming: talks, workshops, salons, demo days, community gatherings
- Coworking at The Circle
- Wellness offerings, including group workouts
- Village-wide social events, cultural outings, weekend adventures
Not included
Accommodation and most meals are separate. Riva Beach Resort, a beachfront property right on Mandrem where the Arabian Sea meets the river, is the village's main gathering place, and Edge City helps with discounted partner-hotel rates and housing coordination, so families can choose the setup that fits them.
Flexibility
Tickets are non-refundable, but they are date-changeable and transferable. Useful breathing room when you are planning around a family calendar.
Visa note: most international visitors need a visa for India, and many are eligible for the India e-Tourist Visa. Check your family's eligibility early so it is one less thing on the runway.
How to attend
Family pricing is live, and Edventures families take 20% off
Edge City has published family pricing for the India village. Come for the full three weeks or for one week, whichever fits your family's calendar. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis: apply, and once approved you receive your ticket link.
$1,550
parents · full event
$775
parents · one week
$930
children 4 to 17 · full event
$465
children 4 to 17 · one week
The child and teen ticket is the Edge Tomorrow pass: it brings your children into the program described above. Children under 3 attend free. Prices in US dollars, before your Edventures discount. Accommodation and most meals are separate.
We have partnered with Edge City to bring Edventures families 20% off any Goa ticket. Use this code at checkout:
ECI26-EDVENTURES-20
October 11 to November 1, 2026 · Mandrem Beach, Goa
Give your family three weeks inside the frontier
Applications for Edge City India are open now. Apply early, take 20% off with code ECI26-EDVENTURES-20, settle housing with their partner-hotel help, and arrive as the monsoon lifts.