Today, IWBFD Studios released the Sim Eternal City White Paper Prelude — the first official document of a floating city framework that has been three years in the making. The release marks the beginning of a public phase for a project that, until now, has existed largely in the space between conversation and conviction.
The document is available for free download at simeternal.city.
What Was Released Today
The White Paper Prelude is not a pitch deck. It is not a feasibility study.
It describes itself as a founding declaration — the first formal articulation of a framework for a floating city designed specifically for elderly citizens displaced by the climate crisis, and for the humanoid robots who will live alongside them as co-citizens.
The framework is built around four decommissioned cruise ships connected in diamond formation on an urban waterfront. At the center of that formation sits Life Tree Nexus Square — the physical and economic heart of a city that generates its own value through three self-sustaining engines: Life Tree Nexus, No Stone Tombstone, and Lab City. Each operates as an equal. None is subordinate to the others.
The document's opening diagnosis is precise: four forces are converging simultaneously — rising seas, expanding human lifespans, the accelerating advance of AI and robotics, and the urgent need for a new model of coexistence. The framework presented is a direct response to all four.
The Premise That Sets This Apart
Every other floating city concept treats elderly people as consumers — as people to be accommodated, managed, cared for. Sim Eternal City inverts this entirely.
The elderly are the first citizens. They are the designers, the workers, the economic actors. The humanoid robots are not tools assigned to serve them. They are co-citizens — participants in the same city, the same economy, the same daily life. The project's slogan says it plainly: New for the Olds.
New York Is Chapter One
New York was not chosen because it is the most famous city in the world. It was chosen because it is where this story grew — twelve years of a founder's life, one hurricane's worth of unhealed wound, and five waterfront sites now under active consideration for the first floating city deployment in history.
On April 18, 2026 — thirty-one days from today — one of those five sites will be announced. The framework moves from document to ground.
Who The Project Is Looking For
With the Prelude now public, IWBFD Studios is actively seeking four categories of collaborators: partners in urban innovation, climate resilience, aging, robotics, and the arts; sponsors who understand that associating with a story is a fundamentally different act than placing an advertisement; venue stakeholders and local communities in coastal cities who want to be in the conversation before a site is chosen in their region; and co-creators across disciplines who want to contribute to a framework still being written.
The window before April 18 is open.
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The Sim Eternal City White Paper Prelude is available for free download at simeternal.city