Name for an agglomeration of seasteads

Mon, 05/05/2008 - 17:09 — Patri

We need a good name for a collection of seasteads attached together to form a village or city.  "A pod of seasteads" (like a group of whales) has been suggested, but I'd like to hear your ideas.  "An independence of seasteads"?  We could take the name from my proposed festival: "An ephemerisle of seasteads".

Or if one is pessimistic, perhaps "A target of seasteads" :).

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Mon, 05/05/2008 - 17:53 — Justin (not verified)

ha ha. That's not

ha ha. That's not pessimistic. "abandoned navigation hazard" is pessimistic.

Mon, 05/05/2008 - 20:10 — Ryan Lackey (not verified)

"raft" of seasteads

There's always the snowcrash answer....Raft.

Tue, 05/06/2008 - 00:52 — Joel (not verified)

A "school" of seasteads?Or

A "school" of seasteads?

Or perhaps a "reef" or an "atoll"?

Tue, 05/06/2008 - 02:06 — Ravage (not verified)

The typical name for these 'private political communities'...

Arcologies

Thu, 05/08/2008 - 06:13 — Andrewdblevins

collective nouns

A stand of seasteads?     

I find a target of seasteads amusing. But is there any irony in trying to assign a collective noun to a multiformity of individualists?

 

Fri, 05/09/2008 - 06:50 — SSH (not verified)

collective noun irony

I suppose if you wanted to be more grammatically ambiguous you could just call it "a steading"?

Thu, 05/08/2008 - 13:53 — AMW

Two Ideas

1. Just call it an "Island."  It's simple, to the point, and sounds pretty good and whereas a single seastead is more technically a ship, when several of them get together they will have more of a fixed feeling.

2. Call it a "Rendezvous."  In the 19th century, mountain men, who lived most of their lives in relatively self-sufficient seclusion would get together once a year to trade goods and socialize.  They called this annual get-together a Rendezvous.  Since the idea of seasteading is to create stable but flexible communities that will naturally stay in a state of flux, I think this would be a fitting term.

Thu, 05/08/2008 - 18:32 — Bambi (not verified)

seasteads naming convention

I am thinking it would be fun to call it a Gaggle of Seasteads -- then if the Seasteads have to move it can be called a Skein of Seasteads while in transit. ;)

Plus it would be a nice pun considering the military slang meaning.

Especially as Wikipedia says,

A gaggle is a term of venery for a flock of geese that isn't in flight; in flight, the group can be called a skein.

In military slang, a gaggle is an unorganized group doing nothing. In aviation, it is a large, loosely organized tactical formation of aircraft.[1]

Bambi

Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:24 — greyraven_r

Name

Having a personal affinity for corvids I suggest an "unkindness" (the proper name for a flock/group of ravens) of seasteads, or perhaps a "murder" (the proper name for a flock/group of crows) of seasteads. Chances are that either of these will be rejected for sounding harsh or antisocial, but we were asked and so I respond with my preferences.

Mon, 05/19/2008 - 13:35 — DirkPitt

Structured naming conventions

Keeping with the theme of Seasteading, one of openess, fairness, creativity, innovation and equality, I believe that imposing a structured naming convention would go against the grain.  I would tend to lean to a common class structure and allow for the individual groups to provide unique names once formed.  Thinking of various common naming conventions, one that popped in my head was Community-Family-Member-Unit.  Each Seastead would be a member with numerous units.  Each member Seastead would be able to name themselves.  Likewise, a grouping of members would be a Seastead family.  They too would be able to provide a unique name to their grouping of Seastead members.  And keeping within the Millenial generation and internet lingo, a grouping of families would be a Community.  The Community is the grouping of one-to-many, independantly governend, Seastead families operating under a common vision and set of values.