I’m looking into the story theme of temporary  isolated communities for archetypal patterns in expanding on burning man as archetypal. 

So far I have collected the following from IMDB; Lost, Under the Dome, Between, Persons Unknown, Wayward Pines, Once Upon a Time, Eureka, Jurrasic Park, Orange is the new Black, Spark, Gilligan’s Island, The Tempest, Brigadoon…

Themes of Islands, accidental entrapment, getting lost, inventors, involuntary imprisonment as well as magic. Is this archetypal and related to mythic landscape and/or is it specific to the American Western Hero? 

Reference past theme names for BRC 
A list of the themes since the concept was added to the event in 1995. (Source)

2015 — Carnival of Mirrors

2014 — Caravansary

2013 — Cargo Cult

2012 — Fertility 2.0

2011 — Rites of Passage

2010 — Metropolis – The Life Of Cities

2009 — Evolution – A Tangled Bank

2008 — American Dream

2007 — The Green Man

2006 — Hope & Fear

2005 — Psyche

2004 — Vault of Heaven

2003 — Beyond Belief

2002 — The Floating World

2001 — The Seven Ages

2000 — The Body

1999 — The Wheel of Time

1998 — The Nebulous Entity

1997 — Mysteria (event ran into major logistical problems)

1996 — The Inferno

1995 — Good and Evil
Temples

2015 — The Temple of Promise

2014 — The Temple of Grace (David Best)

2013 — The Temple of Whollyness (Gregg Fleishman & the Otic Oasis Team)

2012 — The Temple of Juno (David Best)

2011 — Temple of Transition (International Arts Megacrew, Reno NV)

2010 — Temple of Flux (Rebecca Anders, Jess Hobbs and Peter (pk.) Kimelman)

2009 — Fire of Fires (Austin, Tx)

2008 — Temple of Community

2007 — Temple of Forgiveness (David Best)

2006 — Temple of Hope (Mark Grieve)

2005 — Temple of Dreams (Mark Grieve)

2004 — Temple of Stars (David Best)

2003 — Temple of Honor (David Best)

2002 — Temple of Joy (David Best)

2001 — Temple of Tears (David Best)

2000 — Temple of the Mind, first of the annual temples, by David Best in memory of Michael Hefflin