Where creative minds go all in
FREO NEUHAUS
A living lab for art, research, and technology.
Fifty builders from borderless networks gathering in Fremantle, Western Australia, for two weeks to prototype the future of creative society.
a west coast experiment in co-creation
What is Freo Neuhaus?
Freo Neuhaus is a pop-up neighbourhood for creative technologists, builders, artists, educators and researchers.
It’s a co-living prototype - a place where people bring together their ideas, values and tooling, to work on what the future needs.Each residency brings fifty participants - locals, founders from across Australia, and global startup society builders from Network School.
They live and work under the same roofs, lock in on their projects, motivate one another and get things done in Fremantle.
Freo Neuhaus is a project under the auspice of Digital Playhouse Foundation Ltd, an ACNC registered charity from Agnes Water QLD (Australia's First Digital Currency Town 2018), focused on bringing the global to local with new tech.
popping up in freo
Arrayah > freo
Arrayah builds pop-up neighbourhoods for builders in cities around the world - a home for the ambitious.
They’ve launched residencies from Sydney to Lisbon where people live, create, and go all in on their life’s work.Arrayah brings the frameworks, experience, and optimal conditions to help launch Freo Neuhaus as a place where meaningful work gets done.
shared vision
network people connect their big ideas
Akshat visited Network School - a startup society in Malaysia/Singapore. There he met Electra and Simon from Fremantle. They saw the same truth: deep work needs deep context.
why fremantle
network effects of ideas in new locations
Freo has the local talent and proximity to Asia.
Arrayah brings the home grown framework.
Network School brings the global crew.
Freo Neuhaus is launching.
WHY FREO is the place
GLOBAL BUILDERS, LOCAL CULTURE
Fremantle has character. It draws in the curious, the seasoned, the original.
It’s close to Asia, culturally rich, and full of practical magic.
Freo Neuhaus attracts global technologists who care about the future of human creativity to a town that knows how to hold space for slow thinking, real work, and unexpected collaboration.
freo neuhaus plugs into our global networks
Australians are building abroad
From Switzerland to Dubai to Johor, a wave of nomadic Australian tech founders and remote workers are already shaping the global startup societies movement. Fremantle is their closest home port, and it's time to put it on the Network States map. But in a uniquiely Freo way!
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At Network School and Arrayah, Australians are showing up as founders, educators, and creators from vast internet communities building what comes next on land.
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Instead of exporting talent, Freo Neuhaus brings these networks to Australia's west coast - creating a familiar home node, and a place for collaborators to land.
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We’re curating the conditions for serious work to happen in Freo: space, structure, and shared purpose with people focused on building what matters.
freo locals - join freo neuhaus
Come build with us. In your city.
Freo Neuhaus is a prototype neighbourhood for the future of creativity.Step out of the noise. For two weeks, join a focused gathering of optimistic and ambitious people, living and working side by side on what matters.This isn’t a drop-in event. It’s a shared block of time and space designed for deep work and purposeful acceleration.If you’ve been looking for a a carve out of time, for structure, for peers, for something that brings the whole world onto your turf, this is it.
Bring your project.
Bring your curiosity.
Bring what you’ve been holding off on.We’ll bring the room. You bring the work.
a cultured startup society
The start of something lasting.
Foundations for an internet-first but locally-led startup society, adaptive to technological change.Every new movement starts with a school.
Freo Neuhaus draws from Australia’s School of Arts movement of the early industrial era (which laid the groundwork for the country’s vocational education system), the radical methods of Bauhaus, and the open systems thinking of Bitcoin.
All anchored in civic integrity.This isn’t disruption theatre. It’s real infrastructure for humans to protect and benefit from their creativity and agency in an AI-driven world.If that’s what you feel like working toward too, join us.
not just in place, but in purpose:
see yourself here
Amongst techno-optimistic builders, where creativity meets technical fluency, and Fremantle becomes Australia's cultural hub in the Network States.
why you?
Why now?
Because the technologies that are changing everything - AI, decentralised systems, programmable economies - are here.
And most people are being told to adapt or be replaced.
But at Freo Neuhaus, we see a different path:
One where free thinkers learn to navigate and lead the development of these tools on their own terms - with others who share their values.
This is the moment for our creative and cultural leaders to level up as technologists, and choose what kind of future we want to live in.
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