Show threadForrest BrownDec 21
Might be kind of cool to live in a sort of “The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker” world… #multisolving #floatingcities #climatechange #adaptation
Show threadForrest BrownDec 21
But seriously, I think it could be done. Maybe something like this structure could be mounted on top of the floating platforms to make something more like land? And you could basically make little archipelagos that are loosely bound together somehow, maybe by cable? #multisolving #floatingcities #climatechange #adaptation
Forrest BrownDec 21
This looks pretty amazing. Idk how feasible it actually is, but after visiting Little Island in New York City last month, I’ve been thinking a lot about floating cities as a potential climate change adaptation strategy. This seems to me like a good example of what Elizabeth Sawin would call #multisolving. #floatingcities #climatechange #adaptation
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Floating Cities Might Actually Save Us (And They’re Gorgeous) - Yanko Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUVHNiZJi20 You know that feeling when you see a design concept that makes you go "wait, is this for real?" That's exactly what happened when I came across Novasis, a floating platform project by designer Mohsen Laei that just won the Grand Prix Architecture and Innovation Award for the Sea 2025. And honestly? It's not

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
EngagingSTSjournalDec 9

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines?

👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh

#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

EngagingSTSjournalDec 8

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines?

👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh

#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

Martin W. AnglerJun 21, 2023

Meine Cover Story über schwimmende Städte in der aktuellen Ausgabe von Bild der Wissenschaft! #bdw #floatingcities #oceanix

https://www.wissenschaft.de/technik-digitales/zukunftsvision-aqua-staedte/

Zukunftsvision Aqua-Städte

Raus aufs Wasser, um den Folgen des Klimawandels zu entfliehen: Dieser Gedanke steckt hinter futuristisch wirkenden Plänen von „Aquatekten“. Sie wollen

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Show threadAdamas NemesisMar 24, 2023

As an aside, for all my worldbuilding on the topic and all the mentions and flybys characters in my stories have visited Venus *once*, in "The Hunt for Count Gleichen's Treasure". Maybe with regard to my stories I should circle back to that setting sometime... 🤔

#Venus #scifi #spacecolonization #cloudcities #floatingcities #worldbuilding #sciencefiction #Bing #BingAI #AI #artificialintelligence #self #thoughts #writer #writing #author

Boing BoingNov 13, 2017
Floating cities "take shape" https://boingboing.net/2017/11/13/floating-cities-take-shape.html #floatingcities #sciencefiction #seasteading #Post
Floating cities "take shape"

Floating cities "take shape"

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@[email protected]Nov 13, 2017

"#FloatingCities, No Longer #ScienceFiction, Begin to Take Shape

At times, the story of the seasteading movement seems to lapse into self parody, but there are now companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a #prototype by #2020."

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Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape

At times, the story of the seasteading movement seems to lapse into self parody, but there are now companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a prototype by 2020.