About Lakefront
Emerge Lakefront is an intentional community of up to 70 people, living beside a lake twenty minutes from central Stockholm. Residents come from many different fields and walks of life. What they share is an orientation — a sense that inner development and outer contribution belong together, and that the company you keep shapes the work you do.
Emerge Institute operates on the same premises, offering programmes and events open to residents and the wider public. The community and the Institute are distinct but feed each other. Ideas move from the seminar room to the dinner table, and back again.
We live in a time between worlds. This is a good place to live through it.
Our Invitation
Live with people where you can belong, grow and contribute – surrounded by people who care deeply about the future.
The Reality We Face
The systems, stories, and ways of living that shaped the modern world are losing their grip. Climate, governance, culture, meaning — the challenges are real and they are connected. They will not be solved by better tools alone. They require a different quality of human being: more honest, more grounded, more capable of holding complexity without collapsing into either despair or false optimism.
Lakefront exists for people who understand this — and who want to live, think, and work alongside others who do too.
Our Approach
Emerge Institute is based on the premises, offering programmes open to residents and the wider public.
Beyond the formal programme, life at Lakefront is itself a form of learning. Shared meals, spontaneous conversations, visiting thinkers, and the slow work of building genuine community — these are not incidental to the offer. They are the offer.
Our Commitment
We are building something modest by some measures and ambitious by others: a real community, in a real place, with real people doing real work. We are not promising transformation. We are creating conditions in which transformation becomes more likely — for those who want it and are willing to show up for it.
That means curating the community with care, maintaining the quality of the intellectual and programmatic life on the premises, and holding the place with seriousness and warmth in equal measure.
We see ourselves as a node of emergence —part of a living, evolving network of kindred initiatives.
How We Do It
Life at Lakefront is shaped by four things working together: the place itself, the community of residents, the programmes and events of Emerge Institute, and the wider ecosystem the community is embedded in. None of these works without the others.
Community doesn't happen automatically - it requires time, and a willingness to show up for it. Residents are encouraged to protect some of that time: for shared meals, for conversations that aren't about work, for the slower kind of presence that makes a place feel like home. This extends to the running of the community itself. Lakefront works best when residents take an active part in shaping it, not just living in it.
Learning from the Past, Building the Future
Lakefront has roots that go back further than this project. The Ekskäret Foundation has been working in this field for seventeen years, giving rise to initiatives including the Inner Development Goals framework, the think tank Perspectiva, the Emerge gatherings and media platform, and the global learning platform 29k/AWARE. The co-living space K9 in Stockholm is an earlier experiment in the same direction.
Lakefront is where that experience found a permanent home.
A call to action
There are currently around 40 residents at Lakefront. We are growing toward 70. If you are looking for a home where the people around you take both their work and their inner life seriously — this is a good moment to get in touch.
The lake is real. The community is real. The conversations are the kind that are hard to find elsewhere. Come and have a look.
Visit:
Emerge Lakefront
Herbert Widmans väg 5A
Stockholm
Sweden
Contact:
hello@emergelakefront.org