Spaces for Life Conference Spring 2026
Our Vision
We are a diverse group of people who have been involved for a decade in this field, in various roles and a track-record of successfully launching and consulting projects across Europe.
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.
The Event
A hybrid format of structured co-creation and emergent collaboration. A 4-days 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:
- Day 1: Stakeholder needs & challenges → share across groups
- Day 2: Mixed group solution design → open sessions
- Day 3: Emergent topics → output documentation
- Day 4: Integration and wrap up → defining next steps
- Artistic inputs, immersive nature experiences, deep networking, healthy food and some entertainment.
Intented outcomes
- Creation of a shared language & definition for “Spaces for Life”
- Launch of a yearly pan-European alliance
- Highlighting projects and resources, from spaces to territories
- Initiation of joint projects, funding schemes, and policy dialogue
- Mapping & documentation of flagship projects and networks
- More outcomes that emerge during the conference will be carefully harvested and documented.
A 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.
The Location: Château du Feÿ ️
Ticket
The attendance for the event is intentionally curated.
If you have received an invitation, you can enter the code in the REGISTER section on top of the page.
You can also apply for the conference via THIS FORM, giving us some information on your motivation and what group you identify with. We will then get in touch with you.
Yes, we did choose a nice location and we could have chosen a cheaper one. Why do we go to Chateau Fey? Because they are an inspiring and iconic project, walking the talk and representing what we want to create with this initiative. Also we see this conference as an opportunity to regenerate and having a good time. So we prefer to have some comfort and great food.
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 sponsorship 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 sponsor at the conference (tbd).
Scholarships for non-profit/civil society/academic participants depending on sponsorships. If you want to benefit of 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, follow the instructions in the registration process.
What´s included:
- Accommodation (your choice of shared glamping tent, or private room)
- 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:
- Transportation & insurance
- Extra drinks
Prices:
The base ticket for the conference is € 720 (taxes included) + accommodation. The prices can be lower if you apply for a scholarship ticket as mentioned above.
For accommodation you have the choice between deluxe glamping tents (for 2 people), or single rooms in the castle.
- Prices for glamping are approximately: ... € (taxes included)
- Prices for rooms are approximately: ... € (taxes included)
In the registration section you can select the suitable option together with your ticket.
Contact / Organizing Team
Pierre-Alexandre: pa@poiethic.space
Martin: martin@atma.life