Mosaic Village

Mosaic Village is a long-term co-living and land-stewardship project in Vale Cortiças, in the Odemira region of Alentejo. It calls itself a "Regenerative Village & Relational Research Center", and it is exploring how an integrated, self-responsible human culture can be lived and governed at village scale. Behind that sits a belief that the next step in human evolution will be relational rather than technological. The land is around 20 hectares of Alentejano hills, roughly seven minutes' drive from Odemira and 30 minutes from the coast. The structure is nested: participatory governance, experimenting with DAO models, a land trust, and a cooperative currently in formation as the Mosaic Cooperative. There are three ways to take part, separated by how long you stay and how deeply you get involved: - Visiting: short stays of one to six days for the curious, who share meals and walk the land. - Co-Living: from one week, for people who keep their own work and income while helping care for the shared home and attending weekly gatherings. - Joining: a month-long immersion for those who want to become co-creators, combining land responsibility with a contribution to the project. On the ground, the community practises regenerative and syntropic agroforestry, permaculture-based soil building, swales and mulching, and natural building with clay harvested on site. Social life runs on relational practices, weekly "Captain Meetings" where domain-holders align on priorities, and shared rituals of presence and connection. Onboarding happens in seasonal cohorts. The Summer Co-Living programme has onboarding dates through July, August and September. New members, volunteers and long-term collaborators are invited to come and find out whether the project is a fit for them.