Digital Nomad Village

A dream in progress · Est. someday

What if the internet had a village?

Illustration of a dreamy floating solarpunk village: old stone houses with terracotta roofs and solar panels mix with self-built timber studios with sod roofs, a reclaimed-wood canopy, a glass dome greenhouse and homemade wooden wind turbines, all crowded with people on laptops. A party fills the piazza under a huge plane tree with string lights, bunting, long tables and guitars, next to terraced gardens and a pool full of swimmers that spills off the island's mossy edge as a waterfall.

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Weather loading somewhere in Europe…

→ Candidate: Alentejo, Portugal

38.57° N, 7.91° W

Dreaming up a village…

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Digital Nomad Village is a dream of a small village in Europe where people who usually find each other online can actually live, work, grow food and build things together.

What is the Digital Nomad Village?

A place for interesting, curious, creative people to come together and live, work, build, experiment and enjoy life.

  • A beautiful shared workspace for founders, developers, designers, musicians, artists and makers.
  • Cozy homes to stay a while: share meals, make friends, start projects.
  • Gardens and shared kitchens, because tomatoes are the best productivity hack.
  • A community that uses creativity and technology to make the world a little better, weirder and more fun.
Illustrated aerial view of a busy solarpunk mountain village: old stone houses with solar panels next to self-built timber studios with sod roofs and corrugated metal patches, homemade wooden wind turbines on the green hills, a big party with a band, string lights and long tables around the fountain under a huge plane tree, people on laptops under vine pergolas, and a rock pool with waterfalls full of swimmers.

Think of it as a cosy hideaway in nature: a slow countryside village where you open your laptop by the window, build your startup or whatever you're excited about, and step outside into the forest when you need a break.

What it shouldn't become

  • A luxury resort
  • A corporate retreat
  • A productivity cult
  • A hippie commune

Something new, somewhere in between.

Six things the village is made of

~/ pillars

Illustration of a converted barn full of plants used as a coworking space, its doors open onto a vegetable garden and birch trees. One person works on a laptop, one makes music, one paints, and a dog sleeps on the floor.
The barn. Fast wifi, slow mornings.
Illustration of four young people gardening together among raised vegetable beds, tomatoes and sunflowers, with laptops open between the plants.
Standup meeting, garden edition.

A day in the village

~/ an imagined tuesday

  1. 07:30Coffee on the terrace. Someone is already watering the tomatoes.
  2. 09:00Deep work in the barn. Headphones on, laptops open, dog asleep under table three.
  3. 12:30Lunch from the garden. Whoever cooked gets applause; whoever cleans gets more.
  4. 14:00Swim, nap, or pair-programming with a new friend. All valid.
  5. 16:00Workshop: someone teaches bread, synths, or how to fine-tune a small model.
  6. 19:30The long table. Pasta, wine, show-and-tell of what got built today.
  7. 22:30Guitar by the fire. Stars. A terrible idea that might become a startup.
Illustration of friends around a long wooden table in a green garden under a big tree and string lights, sharing pasta and wine while someone plays guitar and a dog sleeps underneath.
19:30. The most important meeting of the day.

So… where?

~/ location: tbd

Honestly? We don't know yet. That's half the fun. Somewhere with good light, kind neighbours, cheap-ish land, a train station within reach and at least one excellent bakery.

  • Portugal for the light and the pace.
  • Greece for the sea and the long lunches.
  • Italy for, well, the food. Obviously.
  • Sweden for the forests and the fika.
  • Germany for the old farmhouses and the techno.
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Once we find a place

~/ plans for the years after

None of this exists yet. But once there's land under our feet, this is what we'd love to grow there, one season at a time.

  1. Illustration of a young woman filming the village with a phone on a tripod from a stone terrace, while a friend sketches notes next to a laptop and a dog sleeps between them.

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    Telling the story

    Content about building a permanent digital nomad and coliving village in the countryside, with startups and indie makers right next door, rural life or not. In the spirit of Madeira, Tursi and Bergen, a small town in the Netherlands where a lot of artists live.

  2. Illustration of a plant-filled stone coworking space open onto a village piazza with a plane tree, where young people work on laptops next to an older local reading the newspaper.

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    A public coworking space

    Open to the whole region, not just residents. Locals, day visitors and the neighbour with a side project are all welcome at the long tables.

  3. Illustration of canvas bell tents with made beds in a meadow below a stone village, an outdoor kitchen under a vine pergola, someone arriving with just a backpack and someone reading in a hammock.

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    Glamping for small budgets

    A campsite where everything is already there: tents set up, beds made, kitchen ready. Bring yourself, not a car full of gear.

  4. Illustration of small stone houses with wooden porches on a green terraced hillside, friends playing guitar on a porch and guests walking up a stone path with their bags.

    04

    Tiny houses for friends

    A handful of small houses for friends and guests who want to stay a little longer than a weekend.

  5. Illustration of a baker kneading dough in a tiny stone bakery with a wood-fired oven, shelves of rustic loaves in baskets and a window onto the gardens.

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    A tiny bakery

    Right where I live. Super cozy, everything homemade and organic, with proper “Zeit für Brot” vibes and the smell of fresh bread at 7am.

  6. Illustration of a terraced community garden where an older gardener in a straw hat tends tomatoes while younger people harvest vegetables into wicker baskets.

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    A community garden

    Looked after by real gardeners, but everyone is allowed to harvest. Anyone who feels like it can grab a pair of gloves and help.

  7. Illustration of a café terrace under a vine pergola with a long brunch table of bread, jam, tomatoes, fruit and cheese, and people eating and working on laptops.

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    A little café

    Attached to the bakery, with an outstanding brunch buffet made from whatever the garden gave us that week.

  8. Illustration of a woman checking her phone on a garden wall while neighbours behind her fix a wooden fence together and a dog sleeps by the vegetable beds.

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    A small community app

    So everyone can pitch in on what needs doing, or simply ask for help when the fence falls over or the code won’t compile.

  9. Illustration of a community lunch in a stone hall open to the garden, with a cook serving pasta from a big pot and people of all ages eating together at long wooden tables.

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    Community lunch, every day

    Canteen-style, for whoever wants to join. Just sign up beforehand so the kitchen knows how much pasta to make.

What we don't know yet

~/ honest list

Most projects pretend to have everything figured out. This one doesn't. The location, size, timeline and business model are all intentionally undecided, and the first people who join will help shape them.

Where exactly?

Somewhere in Europe, probably. Portugal, Greece, Italy, Sweden and Germany are on the shortlist. So is “somewhere none of us has thought of yet”.

How big?

Small enough that you know everyone’s name. Big enough that dinner is never boring. Somewhere between 12 and 80 people, depending on the season.

When?

Not tomorrow. First comes the community, then a pop-up village to test the idea, then hopefully a real place with real roofs.

Who pays for it?

Still figuring that out, honestly. Probably a mix of fair stays, community members, and people who believe in it. Not a luxury price tag.

Who gets to come?

Curious, kind people who make things. All ages, all countries, all kinds of making. Not exclusive, but intentional.

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Tell us who you are, what you make and where you'd like the village to be. No payment, no commitment, no spam. Just the first names on a very early map.

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