300–450
Residents per settlement
Kont · fact sheet.
Cooperative · Settlement · Network
Kont is a network of cooperative settlements of 300–450 residents each, designed around a single conviction: human beings can build places where they actually want to live. The name is a portmanteau — Turkish Köy (village) + Kent (city).
§ 01 · At a glance
15–25 ha
Land · 25 : 75 built-to-open
2–3
Neighborhoods · ~150 ea
29
Open-source docs
§ 02 · Founded
- Project start
- 2026-04-10
- Founder
- Ahmet Turetmis
- Legal status
- Cooperative · in formation
- Governance
- Sociocratic consent · rotating facilitation
- First settlement
- Aegean Türkiye — Phase 0 → 1
- Second study
- UAE desert fringe — pre-Phase 0
§ 03 · Phase 1 numbers
- Capital target
- $1.5–3M · full Aegean Phase 1 envelope (incl. member capital; institutional ask $1.2–1.9M)
- Households
- Cohort forming · 28 committed
- Land target
- Q4 2026
- Co-op registration
- Q3 2026 · Law 1163 (TR)
- First residents
- 2029 target
- UAE decision gate
- 2027
§ 04 · What Kont is
A member-owned cooperative settlement — not a resort, not a developer product, not a utopian exit. Living, working, learning, and leisure are interwoven. Infrastructure is pooled: one clinic, one school, one FabLab shared across the neighborhoods. Capital is cooperative — returns are capped, surplus reinvests. The documents are open-source.
§ 05 · What Kont is not
Not a kibbutz — the kibbutz was a national-ideological project built on total collective ownership. Not an Auroville — we don't organise around a spiritual doctrine. Not a smart city — top-down tech projects rarely include resident agency. Not a gated community — Kont is built on layered inclusion, not exclusion.
§ 06 · Contact
- General
- hello@kontproject.com
- Press
- press@kontproject.com
- Research
- research@kontproject.com
- Web
- kontproject.com
- Docs
- kontproject.com/docs · every canonical doc, public
- Journal
- kontproject.com/journal · quarterly