​A monastery x hacker house experiment. We blend nonsectarian meditation, technology, and contemplative design. Live, practice, and build the future of meditation at the Meditation Artifacts Residency.

​(No background or affiliation necessary.)

​Organized by Meditation Artifacts, a nonprofit for meditation research, innovation, and education.

​FAQ Sessions every Tuesday at 12:30 Eastern Time. Join here:
https://meet.google.com/crr-ofqs-scf

​What We’re Building

​Imagine a monastery and a hacker house combined. This October and November you're invited to join Meditation Artifacts to form and be formed by ritual design, prototyping, and contemplation at the edge. We're partnering with Edge City Patagonia, a moving pop-up village designed for transdisciplinary collaboration and creation, to build the future of meditation.

​This carefully selected community will live together by the beautiful Lácar Lake, near downtown San Martín de los Andes. Every day will be filled with opportunities to explore community, practice, and innovation in new ways. Think daily rituals, reading groups, collaborative research, personal explorations, and design experiments at the edge of contemplative life. Whether you can join for a week or the whole month, we can't wait to build this community with you.

​A Day in the Life

​A residency is a community within a community. Members will have access to all Edge City events, alongside exclusive programming and opportunities for connection in a fully stocked and centrally located home base.

​Imagine shuffling quietly toward the meditation cushion, mug of tea in hand. Warm oatmeal and good conversation await you afterward. Then, you explore Meditation Artifacts and everything Edge City has to offer.

​Our daily rituals include:

• ​7:00 AM: Meditation, Movement, Cold Plunge

• ​7:00 PM: Community Dinner (made by residents or sourced from local restaurants)

• ​9:00 PM: Meditation and Contemplative Practice

​Meditations are guided by Meditation Fellows and collaborators from Secular, Buddhist, Christian, and other backgrounds.

​Partnerships

​Qualia Research Institute - Partnering to run opt-in experiments on meditation and consciousness, olfaction, and computation.
Fulcra Dynamics - Empowering us to track how our experiences at Edge City Patagonia tell a story about how we are, not just what we do.
Sundai Club - Bringing Sundai Club's MIT hackathons to the meditation world!
Flow - Meditation for a modern world, Flow is giving us VR headsets to help us meditate in new ways.

​Costs & Scholarships

​Our pricing is designed to cover the minimum costs of food, housing, and shared resources that make this residency possible.

​We invite you to contribute at the highest level you are able, so we can continue making this experience accessible.

• ​Full Residency (1 month): $900-$1600

• ​One-week Residency: $500

• ​Commuter Pass (Weekly): $250

​Note: Your Edge City Patagonia ticket must be purchased separately. Residency prices do not include the Edge City Ticket cost. However, we are happy to be able to offer a 20% discount on your Edge City Ticket price.

​Your Residency ticket includes:

• ​A bed in our home base with sheets, pillows, etc included

• ​A kitchen stocked with breakfast food and 4-5 community dinners a week

• ​Access to all residency programming (daily guided meditations, weekend hikes & adventures, hackathons, reading groups, 2-3 yoga and movement classes a week)

• ​A Meditation Artifacts branded surprise

• ​A special code to receive 20% off your edge city ticket 

​Apply now — it only takes 10 minutes!

​Are you a meditation teacher? Apply for the Meditation Fellowship here: https://forms.gle/7W1nG1ufUt1FDqSj7

​About Us

​Meditation Artifacts is a nonprofit advancing meditation literacy through education, research, and community programs. Normally based in Boston, we’re bringing this initiative to Patagonia to explore meditation in dialogue with technology, art, and global culture.

​Community leads Luca Del Deo and Charlotte McAdams have spent the past years exploring new ground in meditation, spiritual innovation, and community. The team met at Harvard Divinity School, bringing a background in mental health (Charlotte) and cognitive science of religion research (Luca). Their paths wove around the Harvard Innovation Labs and Harvard/MIT Hacker Houses as they explored, and continue to explore, the future of literacy in meditation, spirituality, religion, and tech.

​Learn more about Meditation Artifacts here: https://www.meditationartifacts.org/about-us

​Questions? Contact [email protected]