⛰️ San Martín de los Andes, Argentina by Plumia at Edge City Patagonia
We’re teaming up with Edge City and Seapunk Studios for a residency in San Martín de los Andes—an alpine gathering of writers, artists, researchers, and builders exploring the future of migration, citizenship and belonging.
You’ll live alongside the Plumia team and other Borderless readers in a real-world experiment at the edge of systems, stories, and landscapes. Expect beautiful hikes, impromptu talks, fiction workshops, policy salons, family-style dinners, and bold conversations under the stars.
- 🇦🇷 San Martín de los Andes, Argentina
- 📅 October 18 – November 15, 2025
- 🏔️ Stay for a week or the whole month
- 🌐 For nomads, global citizens, curious travellers
If you’re craving depth, collaboration, and a slower rhythm full of inspiration and creativity, this is for you. Spots are strictly limited and by application only.
How to Apply
- First, apply to Edge City Patagonia and grab your ticket. Early bird tickets are available and Borderless readers get a 20% discount with code PLUMIA20.
- Next, apply here to attend the Plumia Citizenship Protocols Residency.
📅 Full Residency
October 18th to November 15th, 2025
A month-long residency on the future of citizenship, borders and borderlessness, passport privilege, and experimental migration—exploring how protocols might reshape belonging in an increasingly global, tech-driven world.
🌱 Residency Kick-Off by Nomad Citizen
October 18th to 28th
🛂 Borderless Protocols: Design Fiction Week
October 29th to November 5th
A week of co-imagining borderless nearfiction worlds through tools like protocol design fiction and more. We’ll work towards a constellation of stories and art in various media to be collaboratively published by Protocolised (~20k subs), Borderless (~80k subs), and other relevant platforms.
🚀 Experimental Migration: White Paper Sprint + Mini-Summit
November 6th to 15th
Produce a collaborative white paper and hold a mini-summit (film and distribute online afterwards) on citizenship protocols.
🧭 Background
- Plumia is a policy and media think tank exploring the future of citizenship with a focus on experimental migration.
- SafetyWing is a technology company (YC 2018) launching a new product, Nomad Citizen, this summer, offering a social safety net (health insurance, travel insurance, income protection) that works across borders and visa assistance through a friendly digital interface.
- Edge City is a society incubator and operator of pop-up villages interested in the future of citizenship, passport privilege and experimental migration, especially because their global attendees are often limited by visas.
- Seapunk Studios is a research-and-imagination collective and community interested in solarpunk imaginaries for Southeast Asia, inspired by the region’s historical open common sea and the emergent thriving decentralised ‘punk’ worlds it fostered.
🌍 What
- An immersive residency bringing together thinkers and builders to prototype the future of citizenship and borders, and develop ideas and collaborations to improve migration policy.
- Through fiction workshops, shared meals, conversations, panels, a week-long sprint to produce a white paper and a 2-day mini summit, we’ll interrogate and imagine new frameworks for affiliation beyond the nation-state.
Don't forget to use the code PLUMIA20 for a discount. When you're done, head here to apply to attend the Plumia residency.