Pop-up Village | Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
Innovation residency and immersive retreat
9 July - 15 Aug 2026
A cosmic container for co-creation and collaboration
The Portal at Iceland Eclipse is an immersive pop-up village and field lab for cultural evolution, a catalyst for radical co-creation dedicated to proliferating culture and creativity as humanity steps into its next chapter. Meet us at the edge of the world where innovation meets ancient wisdom, technology learns from nature, and imagination inspires action.
Welcome, Seeker. You’ve been selected to enter The Portal. This is not a simulation. This is not a drill. This is a practice run for the future.
Part innovation residency, part immersive retreat, The Portal at Iceland Eclipse is a month-long experiment in how we might live, create, and collaborate as a global community on this planet and beyond.
As part of a cross-disciplinary crew of astronauts, innovators, artists, and local cultural leaders, you will settle into Iceland’s stunning Snæfellsnes Peninsula to experiment, explore, develop projects, and share knowledge.
Each day invites conscious examination, hands-on innovation workshops, daily wellness practices, adventurous and restorative encounters with nature, and space to tap into the indigenous wisdom and living stories of this land. Together, we will prototype new frameworks for decentralized community co-creation and ensure that art, music, culture, and imagination remain at the heart of our shared future realities.
As the total solar eclipse passes overhead on 12 August 2026, the ideas and projects born within The Portal will come to life during Iceland Eclipse, where art, music, technology, and discovery converge.
Artists. Technologists. Scientists. Aliens. Storytellers. Elves. Builders. Visionaries.
Each being who enters The Portal brings curiosity, courage, and skill to explore new ways of living and creating within this reality and future states of consciousness and planes of existence.
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There are several pathways into The Portal at Iceland Eclipse. A standard pass grants full access to this month-long mission as well as Iceland Eclipse festival entry and group camping. For those needing financial assistance, a limited support program is available, made possible by our generous Patron tier. Those wishing to help shape the experience more directly may apply for a small number of volunteer positions.
Step 2 - Book housing:
After acceptance, you’ll receive a private booking link to choose your housing. Our home base is The Freezer Hostel, offering both private and shared room options.
Step 3 - Chart Your Course:
Book your flight to Iceland and begin preparing your mind, body, and creative spirit for the transformative journey ahead.
Step 4 - Find Your Crew: (optional): Connect with other participants and creative allies through our coordination via Telegram channels launching in early 2026.
Step 5 - Prepare for liftoff: Keep an eye out for upcoming updates from The Portal team, including information on local exploration, preparation tips, food, programming, and more.
To prototype a self-sustaining, co-created community that values curiosity, collaboration, and beauty as essential survival tools. Together, we will harness the awe of Iceland’s once-in-a-century total solar eclipse and the surrounding volcanic landscape to spark innovative co-creation. Inside The Portal at Iceland Eclipse, we will gather a curated constellation of artists, technologists, scientists, and cultural catalysts united by a shared purpose: to prototype a future rooted in harmony with place, planet, and possibility.
We will design projects, experiences, and prototypes that bridge cosmic inspiration with earthly sustainability. Emerging from a direct relationship with land, sea, and sky – and past, present, and future – our work will come to life during the festival under the total solar eclipse, then continue to ripple outward as a model for future living on Earth and beyond.
This is for Explorers. Rather than follow a fixed schedule, The Portal at Iceland Eclipse is an open framework designed to spark organic magic and experimentation. Alongside shared workshops, gatherings, and co-creation sessions, there is space for self-directed exploration and rest.
We will host skill-shares, roundtable conversations, and communal dinners, but much of the experience will unfold naturally based on the curiosities of the Seekers present. One afternoon might bring sunset yoga on a black sand beach or a late-night music jam; another day, an impromptu hike to a nearby volcano; and yet another, discussions on speculative futures and alternative energy resources.
You are invited to shape your own rhythm, balancing solitude and community, stillness and play, structure and spontaneity. The Portal provides the container. You bring it to life.
Workshops & Exchange
Step into a flow of guest-led and resident-driven sessions that weave together art, science, design, sustainability, and innovation. Evening salons and co-creation labs become fertile ground for new ideas and unlikely partnerships. Here, insight emerges through dialogue, play, and shared curiosity.
Co-Creation & Projects
Join a cross-disciplinary crew to merge art, science, and technology into forms that surprise even their makers. Small co-creation teams will gather around shared curiosities to prototype installations, performances, and experiments that will come alive beneath the total solar eclipse at Iceland Eclipse 2026.
Plan & Create
Bring your ideas into form through hands-on experimentation, design sprints, and open studio time. Makerspaces and shared tools will support your process as you prototype, test, and refine. Work with the Iceland Eclipse 2026 production team to shape your vision into an experience that comes alive during the festival.
Creative Hub
Our home base in Hellissandur offers access to shared studios, co-working areas, shared tools, a fabrication lab, and a landscape of infinite inspiration. Our central hub will host scheduled gatherings, spontaneous sessions, and moments of organic co-creation. It is both a meeting point and a playground for our creative community.
Wellness Practices
Begin your mornings with optional breathwork, meditation, yoga, or mindful movement sessions led by residents and visiting guides. These daily rituals of grounding balance the intensity of creation with care for body and mind.
Lead & Explore
Offer or join outdoor experiences that awaken connection and creativity. You might guide a midnight-sun hike, host a nature-inspired workshop, or simply share time in Iceland’s wild places to spark collective inspiration.
There are no spectators here. At The Portal, we are all crew. This is our co-creation container. Each Seeker who joins becomes an active designer of the experience. Together, participants will imagine, prototype, build, and bring to life projects that premiere during the Iceland Eclipse festival.
In The Portal, expertise is never siloed, but shared.
A scientist may co-create a sound installation with an artist, using planetary data.
A filmmaker may collaborate with a somatic practitioner to design an embodied storytelling ritual.
A software engineer may join an art collective to prototype responsive environments.
A musician may help craft the emotional arc of a climate-themed immersive experience.
This is a space where curiosity outranks specialization and the best ideas come from unexpected combinations of people. Projects are limited only by the imagination, skills, and willingness of the community to dream and build together.
At the edge of the world, where the North Atlantic meets the glacier-crowned volcano Snæfellsjökull, lies the town of Rif. This is the picturesque Icelandic village that we will call home during our time together. Nestled within the Snæfellsnes peninsula, known as “Iceland in Miniature,” you will be transformed by this ever-evolving, awe-inspiring landscape.
Venture beyond our pop-up village to explore the wild landscapes of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, a place that feels both ancient and otherworldly. These journeys offer space for renewal and inspiration. Enjoy co-created nature immersions, soak in geothermal pools, trace the paths of ancient lava, hike across glacier light, and let Iceland’s elements recalibrate your senses. Each encounter with the land is a reminder of why we explore and what it means to belong to Earth and Cosmos. Participants are encouraged to self-organize outings to experience the region’s natural wonders firsthand.
