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A Labelix based on the ocean!

Blues: The ocean

Grey Shark and Green Turtle: Ocean creatures

You could use this label because of a love for the ocean, a connection to it, or just because you want to!

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In the Face of Rising Seas, Are Floating Cities a Real Possibility?

A scale model of Oceanix City, a concept capable of supporting more than 10,000 residents, will be featured in the Smithsonian's upcoming 'Futures' exhibit

Excerpt from this story from Smithsonian:

Floating cities—with modern amenities and commercially-viable real-estate—have long been a dream of utopias, from Buckminster Fuller’s unrealized proposal for a floating city in Tokyo Bay in the 1960s, to the entrepreneur Lazarus Long’s quest for a new island nation on an unclaimed Caribbean shoal in 1999. But with the number of people displaced as a result of the climate crisis reaching 40.5 million in 2020, and sea-level rise continuing to threaten the future of coastal cities, offshore living is beginning to sound less like a whimsical proposal and more like a credible alternative. At least that is what the founders of Oceanix, a company invested in designing and building floating cities, believe.

In 2019, the UN-Habitat—a United Nations program that advocates for sustainable urban development—convened a roundtable of architects, designers, academics and entrepreneurs who discussed the viability of floating cities as a solution to climate change and affordable housing. Hosted together with Oceanix, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering and the U.S.-based Explorers Club, the day-long conference introduced the idea of Oceanix City.

This hurricane-resistant, zero-waste city would be comprised of 4.5-acre hexagonal floating islands that each house 300 people. Six of these islands would form a ring-shaped village articulated around a sheltered harbor. And six of these villages would form a small city of 10,800 people. Hypothetically, the numbers could add up indefinitely.

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On Wednesday, April 3, Transsolar’s Erik Olsen and Stefan Holst were invited to present along with a panel of other experts to the United Nations on the topic of “Floating Cities.” read more

or in the article in Fast Company, that explains details of the vision

Floating cities once seemed like sci-fi. Now the UN is getting on board

This week, Chen and a group of collaborators ranging from famed architect Bjarke Ingels to experts in zero waste, water engineering, mobility, and energy-efficient design unveiled plans for what a sustainable floating city might look like at the United Nations in New York. They laid out a plan based on 4.5-acre hexagonal floating islands–about the size of three and a half football fields–that each houses 300 people. “This becomes the basic molecule of a sharing urban system,” Ingels said. For Ingels, who has been interested in floating city concepts for many years and recently built floating student housing out of shipping containers in Copenhagen, a key concern was ensuring that the floating islands would be desirable places to live–on top of being scalable and sustainable. For each crucial system necessary to maintain human life in a floating city, Oceanix and BIG brought in subject matter experts for food, water, waste, transportation. Every other system – food, water, waste, transportation – ultimately feeds into energy. Erik Olsen, the managing partner at Transsolar KlimaEngineering, thinks that for floating cities to be viable... read more in the article in @fastcompany

All picture material: OCEANIX/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

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Are floating cities the future of coastal living?

This company has designed a flood-proof “floating city” model it says could bring safety to millions of people threatened by rising sea leve

As climate change and rising sea levels put coastal communities around the world at risk, the United Nations is betting on technology to build resilient “floating cities”.

Oceanix, a “blue tech” company based in New York, has designed a flood-proof pilot project it says could bring safety to millions of people.

In partnership with UN-Habitat, the company is now ready to start building the first prototype in Busan, South Korea.

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Oceanix City- A blueprint for a modular maritime metropolis | Bjarke Ingels Group

By 2050, 90% of the world’s largest cities will be exposed to rising seas. The vast majority of coastal cities will be impacted by coastal erosion and flooding, displacing millions of people, while destroying homes and infrastructure. As part of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, Oceanix and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) have proposed a vision for the world’s first resilient and sustainable floating community for 10,000 residents.

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UN-HABITAT EXPLORES FLOATING CITY CONCEPT

UN-HABITAT EXPLORES FLOATING CITY CONCEPT Earlier this month UN-Habitat (UN Human Settlements Program) met with a broad range of partners in the First UN High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Floating Cities.

Earlier this month UN-Habitat (UN Human Settlements Program) met with a broad range of partners in the First UN High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Floating Cities. The goal of the meeting was to explore innovative solutions to the threat faced by coastal cities and countries due to rising sea levels.

The Roundtable, co-convened with OCEANIX, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering and the Explo…

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