the network of "intentional community" concepts

The concept of “intentional communities” stretches back millennia, and has gone by many names throughout its history. It has also been associated with related concepts such as “subcultures” and “affinity groups”.

In this post, I’ve listed as many related terms as I can think of to help IC enthusiasts to discover similar ideas and groups.

If you can think of any I haven’t listed, please mention them in the comments!

• Intentional Communities

• Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)

• Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

• Micronations

• Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ)

• Communes + Communalism

• Subcultures

• Affinity Groups

• Urban Tribes + Neotribalism

• Parallel Societies + Parallel Economies

• Network States

• Ecovillages

• Homesteading

• Seasteading

• Permaculture

• Planned communities

• Arcologies

• Charter cities

• Agorism

• “Exit”

• Cohousing & housing cooperatives