Spaces for Life Conference May 2026
The Vision
We strongly believe that Spaces for Life, in all their shapes and forms, constitute a vital function in the current paradigm change as they act as experimental spaces, inspiring new cultural and social narratives of a life within the planetary boundaries.
If you're building, funding, studying, or advocating purpose-driven places — this event is for you and we would love to count on your presence. This is your invitation to help shape the next frontier of regeneration, resilience, and space-based innovation in Europe.
Event format
A hybrid format of structured co-creation and emergent collaboration for a target audience of 50 hand picked participants. A 4-day transformative and immersive experience including working sessions, inspiration and informal networking, a subtle mix of work and relaxation that will leave you inspired and regenerated.
- The detailed structure is work in progress, below is a rough overview.
- There will always be 2-3 parallel working streams, using different formats.
- All outcomes that emerge during the conference will be carefully harvested and documented
Stakeholder groups identifying solutions for needs & challenges
Looking at best practices
Open sessions: cross pollination between groups
Case clinics
Integration of emergent topics
Documentation of output
Planning for next conference
Leisure & entertainment: Artistic inputs, immersive nature experiences, deep networking, healthy food and body practices provide a perfect blend of work and regeneration.
Two stage process
- Research sprint before the event
- A selected group of participants will embark on a facilitated journey to prepare the ground for the event. We will identify common challenges and opportunities in the European third spaces movement.
- The results will be shared with all participants one month before the event.
- The event
- With the gained information during the sprint, we will have a common ground to start working, allowing us to go deeper and produce better results.
- Rinse and repeat
- We intend to repeat this process for each yearly conference, thus continually strengthening the movement and our personal and professional skills.
Topics
Enabling viable local and digital ventures, ecosystems & collaboration
Answering needs from territories, policy & commons
The Location: Château du Feÿ ️
Ticket
The attendance for the event is intentionally curated.
- In order to attend, register for the event.
- Please provide us with some information about your motivation and what group you identify with. We will then get in touch with you.
- For the notice, the total capacity is limited, we may need to prioritize some stakeholder groups. We'll get to you as soon as possible to confirm your spot.
- This conference is also an experiment. We foresee some European momentum. In case the interest remains low, we'll have to postpone it. Don't book your commuting tickets yet.
Yes, we did choose a nice location. So why do we go to Chateau Fey? Because they are an inspiring and iconic project, walking the talk. Also we see this conference as an opportunity to regenerate and having a good time. We prefer to have some comfort, good food in a great location, so we can return rested and inspired.
We want this to be an inclusive and well balanced conference, thus also people with low-income should be able to attend. We ensure this through sponsoring and our pay-it forward tickets. If you can be generous, we suggest that you choose a +50% or +100% ticket and like this pay for either half or a full ticket of somebody that could otherwise not attend. If you choose to do so, we give you the option to be introduced to your beneficiary at the conference.
- Scholarships: If you want to benefit from a discounted ticket, please contact us. We have a waitinglist and whenever a pay it forward ticket gets sold, we inform you.
- Sponsoring: we are looking for organisations or individuals that want to support the conference and the movement. We can highlight you in all our communication or also keep it private.
We do accept payment in BTC, reach out for more details.
What´s included in the conference ticket:
- Attending the event
- Use of all facilities
- Sessions & workshops
- Results of pre-event design sprint and post-event harvest report
- Healthy, vegetarian full board
What´s not included:
- Accommodation (select your preferred type of accommodation)
- Transportation & insurance
- Extra drinks
Prices:
The ticket for the conference is approx. 708 € (taxes included) + accommodation.
The prices can be lower if you apply for a scholarship ticket as mentioned above.
If you can be generous, please select one of the pay-it forward tickets approx. € 900 - 2500 (taxes included)
Accommodation: you have the choice between deluxe glamping tents, or rooms
- Glamping: € 230 (taxes included) in a shared tent (2 people)
- Shared room: € 320 (taxes included) most with private bathroom (2 people)
- Single room Small: € 500 (taxes included) with private bathroom in either the castle or an annex building
- Single room Large: € 700 (taxes included) with private bathroom in the castle (40-60m2) for a royal experience
In the registration section you can select the suitable option together with your ticket
Contact the team: