V11–15 November
A quieter week
No public gathering.
Some actual empty space.
Stay. Work. Read. Finish something. Sleep.
Express interest11 Oct — 29 Nov
Autumn at Hostačov
Cultivating human agency in accelerating times.
11 October — 29 November 2026
Seven weeks of work, gatherings and shared life in the Czech Highlands.
Enter the autumn ↓Hostačov will be inhabited continuously through most of October and November.
The autumn has a loose centre of gravity rather than a single thesis.
Agency here is less about control or individual willpower than our capacity to notice, choose what deserves attention, act together and change direction when the tools we inherited are no longer enough.
We are bringing people approaching these questions from different directions into the same house, with no shared doctrine or promised conclusion.
How the autumn works
The residency
The house is inhabited throughout the autumn. Stay for a few days or several weeks, bring your own work, join what others are doing, or move between the two.
Working weeks
Each week has people or communities bringing real work into the house: research, strategy, experiments, writing, organising, prototypes or questions that have become too interesting to work on alone.
Gatherings
Most weeks open into a more structured gathering around a particular question: talks, workshops, conversations, practices, experiments and time that does not fit neatly into a schedule.
Helping hold the house
House hosts help newcomers enter the life of an already-moving house, make introductions, and tend the social fabric of the residency. Practice hosts may offer an optional embodied or contemplative practice.
Holding the autumn
František Drahota
Season host
František is hosting the autumn as a whole: tending the overall arc, bringing together the people and communities moving through Hostačov, and helping the different weeks speak to one another.
Finn Clancy
House host
Pauliina Laine
House host
Finn and Pauliina will be around across much of the residency, helping new arrivals find their footing, making introductions, tending the rhythms of shared life, and paying attention to the interpersonal fabric of the house.
They are not there to programme everyone’s experience. Much of the residency should remain self-directed.
Behind this, the Hostačov team looks after rooms, food, cleaning, maintenance and the practical running of the house.
Programme
Seven weeks,
one inhabited house.
Each week has a different centre of gravity. Most weeks open into a gathering. Some parts are formed; others are still being built by the people holding them.
And some things we do not know yet.
More people will join. Some sessions will be invented over dinner three days before they happen.
Life in the house
Most weekdays should feel less like a conference and more like a particularly alive shared working house.
Breakfast happens. People disappear into corners with laptops and notebooks. Lunch gathers whoever is around. There may be a practice in the afternoon. Dinner brings the house back together.
After that, plans become unreliable.
A conversation migrates to the library. Someone finds a guitar. Three people keep working. Somebody starts a fire.
Shared dinner is the closest thing to a daily centre.
A house, not a hotel
Hostačov is professionally run, but the residency is also a shared household.
We expect almost everyone staying with us to contribute roughly 30 minutes a day to ordinary shared duties: setting tables, clearing after dinner, carrying things, making tea or tidying common spaces.
Nothing heroic. Just enough that the house belongs, a little, to everyone living in it.
Who tends to find their way here
The people who tend to find their way here are often at the edge of something.
Perhaps the models you work with no longer explain what you are seeing.
Perhaps a technological problem has become political, psychological or philosophical.
Perhaps you are building something and have begun wondering whether the assumptions underneath it are right.
Or perhaps you simply want to spend some time around people seriously engaged with the world without requiring them to be serious all the time.
People arrive through many communities and traditions. They are doors into the house, not tribes inside it.
You do not need to know the jargon. You are allowed to disagree with the premise of the gathering you are attending.
That may even help.
Hostačov
An old château in the Czech Highlands, around seventy minutes from Prague.
Frescoed rooms and badly behaved Wi-Fi corners, a library, long tables, seventeen bedrooms, old trees, a lake, open fields, and enough space to disappear without actually leaving.
Taking people slightly out of their ordinary world, without asking them to leave the real one behind.
Being here
You should feel well looked after.
The programme is allowed to be unfinished. The practical container is not.
- Accommodation
- 17 en-suite bedrooms, usually shared between two or three people. We collect rooming preferences; private rooms are sometimes possible but cannot be guaranteed.
- Food
- Vegetarian, with vegan options. Meals are shared.
- Working
- Wi-Fi, tables, shared working rooms and quieter corners. Weekdays leave substantial time for actual work.
- Substance-free
- The residency and gatherings are alcohol- and recreational-drug-free.
- Families
- Children are welcome where practical. Contact us and we will work out what is realistic.
- Language
- English is the main common language unless otherwise noted.
- Getting here
- Hostačov is in Skryje in the Czech Highlands, around seventy minutes from Prague. Detailed travel information is sent before arrival.
Contribution
The daily contribution includes accommodation, food and participation in the residency programme.
- Access€10 / day
- Primarily for people under 24, people from low- and middle-income countries, and people experiencing financial hardship.
- Supported€30 / day
- For people who need a meaningful reduction.
- Standard€50 / day
- Where we hope most people land.
- Supporter€70 / day
- Helps make the lower rates possible.
The sliding scale is based largely on trust rather than financial screening. It works when people who can comfortably choose Standard or Supporter do so; that helps us keep the lower rates available to people for whom cost would otherwise be a barrier.
Come for part of it
You do not need to understand the whole autumn to have a reason to come.
Perhaps one gathering catches you.
Perhaps you need a week somewhere else to finish something.
Perhaps someone you trust is already coming.
Come for three days.
Stay for three weeks.
Bring some work, some uncertainty, and preferably a warm layer. The house will already be moving.
Expressing interest is not a commitment. Tell us roughly when you might come and what draws you here; we will follow up about availability and practical next steps.
11 October — 29 November 2026