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

Home New

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

  1. Clearly defined (clear definition of the contents of the common pool resource and effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties);
  2. The appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions;
  3. Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;
  4. Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;
  5. A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;
  6. Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access;
  7. Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities; and
  8. In the case of larger common-pool resources, organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.

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.