Seastead

A seastead is a structure which is safe to live on in international waters. The goal is to enable dynamic geography where people can pick which legal system they are in without having to box up their stuff and change houses. Since the focus is on living on the water, not getting anywhere quickly or carrying heavy cargo, a seastead design can sacrifice speed through the water and cargo capacity to achieve lower costs per square foot and greater stability than a boat/yacht/ship of similar price. The goal of seasteading is to make a community of people living on affordable seasteads.

There are several different lines of thinking about what seasteads should look like and the best strategies to get them built. The table below shows the main visions for what we should be working on to advance seasteading.

Vision/Why/Strategy	Example	Example	Example
Single Family Seastead, or Vince views, or Survivalist market, or Self sufficient seastead, or Refugee market	Tension Circle House	Geodesic Vessel	WaterWalker
Breakwater Seastead, or BreakwaterBay	Tension Circle Marina
Floating City Seastead, or High Road	Clubstead	Ocean Ranger	The Poseidon Project
Cruise Ship Seastead, or Shipstead	Residensea The World	ORCA
Basestead, or Outposts	Basestead Belize
Why Ephemerisle Matters	Ephemerisle	Ephemerisle
Prizes	Ephemerisle Contest
Protected Waters	Baltic Seasteading	Floating Villa	Mediterranean Seasteading
Building Seastead Community	facebook	seasteading.org	conference
Grid Seasteading, Tissue seasteading, The flexible seastead grid, wave dampening by flexible cover	Seastar Platform	Uru vegetation islands	Plastic Bottle Island
Building Knowledge Base	Wiki	Experimental models	Research

Note that the above approaches are not mutually exclusive, except in the sense that if you spend your time and money on one you don't have it to spend on another.