The Frontier Atlas
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Communities

Bio-architecture, intentional communities, and new-earth land projects. Each entry aggregates what's claimed, names the lineages and researchers cited, and leaves what's unresolved open — the Atlas is still learning this space alongside you.

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Survey plate — a small intentional village of domes, longhouses and round huts arranged around a shared commons with figures gathered at its center

PLATE III — A VILLAGE AROUND A COMMONS

Communities6 sources

SeedHome

A compression-only prefab bio-shelter built from curvilinear shell geometry and decentralized robotic fabrication — the flagship product of Bio-Veda's bio-architecture academy and blueprint-licensing business.

Bio-Veda / BioArc — Alosha Lynov & Roger D. JonesCharter
Communities3 sources

Science and Alchemy of Consciousness (France)

A real, currently-running annual multi-day conference and retreat — its 5th year in 2025 — bringing the Implosion Group's device makers, theorists, and practitioners together at one venue for lectures, device demonstrations, and communal meals.

Dan Winter, Tufan Guven, Patrick Botte, and collaborators — organized via GeometricModels.org / FractalU.com
Communities4 sources

Auroville — The City of Dawn

A permanent international township founded in 1968 to 'realize human unity' — now home to roughly 3,300 residents from 60 nations, with stated support from UNESCO and the Government of India.

Founded by Mirra Alfassa ('The Mother'), based on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Communities3 sources

Edge City

A network of month-long 'pop-up villages' for people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society — explicitly aimed at eventually seeding a permanent town.

Founded by Janine Leger & Timour Kosters
Communities2 sources

Findhorn Foundation / Park Ecovillage Findhorn

A spiritual community and ecovillage founded in 1962 — among the oldest continuously-running intentional communities in the world — built on three stated practices: inner listening, co-creation with nature, and love in action.

Co-founded by Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy, and Dorothy Maclean
Communities2 sources

Tamera

A 'Peace Research & Education Center' in rural Portugal built around the concept of 'Healing Biotopes' — communities designed to research and model a nonviolent culture across ecological, social, and spiritual domains.

Co-founded by Dieter Duhm
Communities6 sources

Zuzalu

A one-time, two-month 'pop-up mini-city' for roughly 200 people in Montenegro (2023) — the originating experiment that Edge City and other frontier gatherings explicitly descend from, documented firsthand by its founder.

Founded by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum) with a founding team of roughly 8 people