Seasteading and The Seasteading Institute are the closest thing I have found so for in respect to a group platforming and providing capital and resources into creating new artificial societies founded on fixing issues in society
Their goal is to innovate on society without the restriction of exiting regulations.
“Were providing the technology for other people to try their version of societies”
However, while I agree with some of the points made in the video in regards to creating new societies that attempt to fix some of the seemingly systemic issues we have in established ones, this is just not practical, we don’t need to move to the sea.
The direction of the project I see taking two philosophical approaches.
Applied Speculative Practice
Design process involves continuous iteration and experimentation. We could apply the same optimistic design approach to iteration to society. Furthermore speculative practice can be applied in small groups, where negative side effects would have less reach.
Alternative to being a politician
Trying to apply new policy through most governments is extremely time consuming and takes great effort and luck. But if we were able to prove possible policies through small experiments then these could be easier to adopt by politicians as new policy. Especially as they would be done with a similar demographic of people.
I was introduced to Elinor Ostrum who created the Design principles for Common Pool Resource
She advocates us to not have simple solutions to complex problems, and goes on to argue for a polycentric governmental structures where multiple governments and local organisation can have diplomatic relations.