Château du Feÿ is a pragmatic utopia in rural France, where people find a sense of belonging through a thriving community that shares one mission: to rethink our possible futures. In a polarized, isolating world, inside a 400 year-old chateau which lay empty for a decade, we created a sustainable and regenerative ecosystem that builds bridges: between local and global ideas, rural and cosmopolitan populations, between countless disciplines, and between the world of yesterday and that of tomorrow.

In 2017 at the age of 26, architect Jessica Flore Angel was living in San Francisco at The Embassy, a life-changing intentional community, that showed her the power of place-based projects in creating a sense of belonging. Back home in France, she saw the abandoned 400-year-old Château du Feÿ as a similar place of possibility. Supported by friends and family, she took on the entrepreneurial challenge of turning this abandoned historic site into a laboratory for sustainable futures, bridging between rural and urban populations, at the intersection of art, nature, heritage, technology and community. Today at Feÿ, people find a sense of belonging and leverage the power of community to create knowledge and regenerative projects. For the past 7 years we have been developing a virtuous ecosystem made of 5 complementary structures:

FEŸTOPIA, a community of ~200 international artists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and researchers rethinking the world of tomorrow, which every year turns the Chateau into a co-living /co-working space in the winter (Dec-April).

SAS. CH TEAU DU FEŸ, a profitable company that rents Feÿ in the summer (Mai-Nov) for events with aligned values.

FEŸ ARTS, non-profit in charge of our yearly multi-disciplinary arts festival that brings 1500 people for a unique weekend-long immersive experience, as well as artist residencies prior to the festival.

FRIENDS OF FEŸ, non-profit in charge of bridging between natural heritage and built heritage. It leads projects and workshops around permaculture/agroforestry, biodiversity preservation and old techniques of renovation.

CONVERGENCE DES POSSIBLES, a consortium with local nonprofits in charge of nurturing our local community to support projects around food, energy and technological resiliency.

We have prototyped a sustainable model, which is improving its land, its local economy, its community fabric, its people, its culture, its heritage and that has already catalyzed others to do the same.