The Seasteading Institute

The Seasteading Institute believes that innovative political systems could serve humanity far better than our governments do today.

That’s why we work to enable “seasteads”—floating cities—which will give people the opportunity to peacefully test new ideas about how to live together. The most successful will become thriving new societies—inspiring change around the world.

We’re creating this future because our governments profoundly affect every aspect of our lives, and improving them would unlock enormous human potential.

Seasteading is a common cause for many ideologies.

Instead of arguing about politics, seasteading will give people the freedom to demonstrate their ideas in practice. Seasteads will be laboratories for experimenting with new innovative governments.

We're a nonprofit think tank taking a pragmatic and incremental approach to ushering the seasteading vision into reality.

Our strategic areas of focus are:

• Engaging and inspiring a global seasteading community.

• Assisting entrepreneurs to create seastead businesses.

• Conducting engineering research for long-term engineering challenges.

• Pursuing political and institutional diplomacy to make way for the era of seasteading.

Soon people will be freer to create new societies.

In a few decades, millions of people will have colonized the oceans, living with innovative governments of their choosing. The best ideas from the new governments will spread and improve the world.