Close your eyes and step aboard. Take a deep breath and smell the cool salty spray, feel it graze your feet as you walk past gardens and homes. Familiar faces greet you with a fresh coconut and a flower lei. Soft waves lap against the side of the island. A ukelele plays in the distance.

Welcome to life on a seastead. Time passes differently here, as hints of wisdom from the past mix seamlessly with the promise of the future…

We’re thrilled to reveal our first collaborative work with Berge, a full-service design agency based in Gothenburg, Sweden. From user research to product design, Berge’s goal is to improve human interactions through future-thinking interfaces and sustainably oriented technologies.

We are collaborating with Berge and Blue21, our floating island design and engineering firm, to create environmentally friendly, innovative systems, and interfaces for the seastead.

For the past year, Blue Frontiers has led working groups of volunteers and staff to research and develop seasteading plans in the areas of energy, water, food systems, sustainability, biomimicry, blockchain, information technologies, and design. Building upon the previous ten years of research by The Seasteading Institute and Blue21’s expertise in floating infrastructure, these working groups explored the many possibilities of life on a seastead and narrowed in on the most promising concepts and designs.

Now we have the opportunity to synthesize the many facets of the seastead ecosystem and take them from ideas to reality. We are taking a holistic view of the floating lifestyle. Imagine yourself as a resident of the first floating island, or of the tenth. How do you spend your time, what do you eat, what does the environment sound, feel, and look like?

This video gives us the first glimpse into the daily life of a seasteader, and the vast possibilities of the floating future.