Seasteads

Proponents of seasteading want to create free standing "nations" at sea free from ruling from any other country. Each seastead can then rapidly develop their own sort of living system allowing for the trial of all sorts of proposed ideal methods. I think of these as futuristic communes and find the idea of them endlessly fascinating!

BLDGBLOG has this to say:

For a little more background, Wired's Chris Baker covered the Seasteading Institute last month. Baker wrote that the Institute "doesn't just want to create huge floating platforms that people can live on," they are "also hoping to create a platform in the sense that Linux is a platform: a base upon which people can build their own innovative forms of governance. The ultimate goal is to create standards and blueprints that can be easily adapted, allowing small communities to rapidly incubate and test new models of self-rule with the same ease that a programmer in his garage can whip up a Facebook app."
Here, architectural design would actually help to catalyze new forms of political sovereignty.

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Blogging to keep my sanity.

I started this as a religious documentation of things that interested me, but wasn't very good about the followup as is unfortunately characteristic of me... but dreams have to start somewhere right? I'm working this summer with no outlet to share the fabulous things I'm learning so I'm bacccckkk.

So a followup on something I was obsessed with so long ago: BLDGBLOG

I had an epiphany of what exactly it was that I wanted to do with my architecture degree and it is to be Geoff Manaugh, the creator of BLDGBLOG. I go on and on about my love for archigram and only now realized how analogous bldgblog is. They use insane scenarios of the future and build up dream worlds and systems for them. This is literally what we did as children with lego blocks and to be able to continue doing so as a "grown-up" would be a dream come true. I know this dream of mine comes the necessity to read insane amounts of information all the time and that's a challenge I'm up for.

Ok... so I might have gone a little overboard when I wrote him an e-mail confessing my undying love for him ... but my past endeavors of stalking my idols has only lead to good places! I'm looking at you John Bowe! <3

Ok I got the wordiness out of my now on to the blogging!