Ever heard of the term Libertarianism? Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. And what about Seasteading? It is the concept of building floating cities that are independent of the government. Both these ideas are creative nonetheless but expensive too. Seasteading is something that would require billions of dollars of investment and decades of work.
You can’t even know how these communities will look unless you see one created in front of you. So to give everyone a peek into this world of Liberatirans combined with seasteading, a design competition was announced by The Seasteading Institute that invited designers and architects to visualize these floating cities. The Seasteading Institute is a group founded by Peter Thiel in 2008, which believes that seasteading is the ideal solution to the government’s inability to “innovate sufficiently.”
It’s a movement that has grown up in the tech world, attracting interest from libertarians and techies alike. The competition was held just to evoke interest in general public. Judged by architects, scientists, engineers, and seasteaders themselves, the competition wrapped up this month—and the results were recently posted online.
The various winners or designs that won include Simon Nummy, an architect, who proposed a three-storey floating buffer surrounding the community to shield it from storms and rough waves. His proposal also included huge tubes made of strong fabric anchored to the ocean floor to create ecosystems where harvestable sea life could flourish. Another winner, titled, Artisanopolis, created by a team of three architects from Roark 3D—-imagines a circular series of wave-breakers surrounding modular floating piers, where PVs and wave-powered turbines collect energy to power the island.
Apart from these, huge luxurious yachts, geodesic-inspired biodomes and the tessellated facade (designed by third place winner Matias Perez) were the ther designs that stood out in the competition. These designs may not propose realistic engineering solutions for self-sustaining communities but they do depict the hyper-utopian design ethos of the tech world.
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Author:Technology Blog
