The first full summer of Hostačov's next chapter. From June through early September, the château becomes a landscape for retreats, residencies, gatherings, weddings, shared meals, quiet work, and temporary worlds.
Some periods are open. Some private. Some by application.
Hostačov is a 16th-century château in the Czech Highlands, ~70 minutes from Prague.
Across the season, people from unusually different domains keep finding themselves in the same rooms — researchers, technologists, artists, founders, contemplatives, facilitators, families, wanderers. Serious work alongside good company. Intellectual depth alongside embodied presence. Enough structure to hold things; enough openness for the unexpected.
What follows is the map of the season. A living document. The structure below will hold; details fill in over the coming weeks.
Questions: [email protected]
“This house shelters daydreaming, and the daydreaming, hopefully, in time shelters the house.”
1 – 23 July · Open / by application
Three weeks held lightly, around the territory where technology, philosophy, and complex systems thinking meet. Two halves, split by a company retreat (10–12 July) — the Human-Aligned AI Summer School in Prague (13–17 July) keeps a natural flow of people moving between them.
Come for a few days or the longer stretch. Quiet focused work, conversations that find their own shape, the château at an unhurried pace.
Lead holders: Andrew Szabados and Philip Chen. Contributor interest welcome. 🌿
July 23–26 · Closed
External. Czech youth civic engagement programme.
July 27 – August 12 · Open / by application