At The Seasteading Institute, we work to enable seasteading communities floating cities which will allow thenext generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government. The most successful can then inspire change in governments around the world. <\/p>\n
This is an audacious vision that will take decades to fully realize. We strongly believe in incrementalism breaking this huge vision down into manageable, practical steps. Our current strategy centers around the Floating City Project, through which we are crafting practical plans for the worlds first seastead, designed around the needs of actual potential residents, and located within a host nations protected, territorial waters. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We believe the first key step is for seasteading to become not just possible, but sustainable technologically,legally, and financially. <\/p>\n
In other words, the cost of living on the ocean must be low enough, and the business opportunities promising enough, such that there is an economic incentive for people to live on seasteads. Currently, the high cost of open ocean engineering serves as a large barrier to entry, and hinders entrepreneurship in international waters. This has led us to look for cost-reducing solutions within the territorial waters of a host nation, while still remaining dedicated to the goal of obtaining political autonomy for governmental experiments. Therefore, our plan entails negotiating with a host nation for maximum autonomy for a seastead in exchange for the economic and social benefits it could provide. This will allow for a proof-of-concept, and will hopefully spawn many more experiments with floating cities around the world, including those further offshore, and under different legal arrangements. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Seasteading Institute has built a program which supports the strategic objective of sustainable seasteading (as defined above), primarily focusing on planning and facilitating the first floating city. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As a non-profit organization, our role is not to build seasteads ourselves, but to set the stage in order to empower others to do so. Our Floating City Project is the latest form of business development it explores a model wherein a single company comprising several stakeholders will oversee construction and management of a highly autonomous floating city, leaving residents and entrepreneurs free to operate their own lives and businesses. The project builds on years of engineering and legal research, political and related maritime industry diplomacy, and the building of a community of aspiring seasteaders. <\/p>\n
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