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Solarpunk

Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the well-designed with the green and wild, the bright and colorful with the earthy and solid. Solarpunk can be utopian, just optimistic, or concerned with the struggles en route to a better world — but never dystopian. As our world roils with calamity, we need solutions, not warnings. Solutions to live comfortably without fossil fuels, to equitably manage scarcity and share abundance, to be kinder to each other and to the planet we share. At once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, and an achievable lifestyle. In progress…

We have received DMs from quite a few people who wanted to get into solarpunk but didn’t find it very accessible after looking at the results of the google search. The links below are an attempt to open up the optics of the solarpunk community for newcomers and others looking for references . A lot of the early discussions happened on tumblr from 2014 onward after Miss Olivia Louise’s character concept post took off — with a core community of stewards who know who they are. What follows is not meant to be an exhaustive list but hopefully will increasingly become one. We’re also aware that we are missing almost all of the art references from this list. :( We included our first post from 2012 at solarpunks.tumblr.com Please get in touch with art references as a lot of content has lost their attribution — Jay

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2008

From Steampunk to Solarpunk

https://republicofthebees.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/from-steampunk-to-solarpunk/

“A major difference between solarpunk and steampunk is that solarpunk ideas, and solarpunk technologies, need not remain imaginary, and I indulge a hope of someday living in a solarpunk world.”

French solar blimp

https://www.wired.com/2009/07/french-solar-blimp/

*FRENCH KIDS IN engineering school. Man, that gobboon is just the solarpunk awesomest.” — Bruce Sterling

2010

Figuring out “Solarpunk”?

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?219971-Figuring-out-quot-Solarpunk-quot

“So I’ve had an idea (not an original one of course, but one that hasn’t had a lot of use) that I think has lots of mileage; solarpunk.”

Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00187.htm

“no doubt, the embryonic seeds of solarpunk are being planted.”

2011

Antologia SOLARPUNK Guidelines (Brazil)

https://www.scribd.com/document/64379041/Antologia-SOLARPUNK-Guidelines

Depois da Vaporpunk (2010) e da Dieselpunk (2011), 2012 será o ano da Solarpunk !Ao contrário das duas antologias punks anteriores, na Solarpunk não julgamos necessário enfatizaro elemento “punk”. O “solar” agora parece mais importante.

2012

Solarpunk

http://editoradraco.com/2013/01/11/solarpunk-historias-ecologicas-e-fantasticas-em-um-mundo-sustentavel/

“a Brazilian anthology of solarpunk literature whose opening lines were roughly translated in an Australian article in 2014. “Now imagine large space sailboats driven by solar radiation, production of biofuels via nanotechnology, the advent of photosynthetic humans, and, as there is no perfect society, even terrorism against corrupt businesses and governments. Welcome to the bright green world of solarpunk.” — The New Utopians

Lego Solarpunk

https://www.flickr.com/groups/solarpunk/

“Welcome to a world run by solar energy.”

Todo In Portland: Weird Shit Con 2012

http://technoccult.net/archives/2012/08/01/todo-in-portland-weird-shit-con-2012/

“weirdos / Solarpunk / robots / machine vision / technologies disruptive to society and government”

On the Need for New Futures

http://solarpunks.tumblr.com/post/27525726746/on-the-need-for-new-futures

“We are starved for visions of the future that will sustain us, and give us something to hope for, ideas of life beyond the rusted chrome of yestermorrow or nightmare realms of radiated men eating the flesh of other radiated men.”

Low-Power/No-Power #LoNo Computing (PDF)

https://charlesreid1.com/w/images/f/f1/LonoComputing.pdf

The Analog vs. The Digital

http://worsethandetroit.co.uk/post/27901477141

“The term for Reid’s proposal, above, (and the title of the essay it comes from) is “Solarpunk.” I’m not sure it represents any real revolutionary shift, nothing of a movement yet, but it does provide a valuable new perspective, a paradigm and a vocabulary through which to describe one possible future.”

2013

BCN SOLARPUNK || ART SCIENCE & IMAGINATION — Monthly events begin

https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/solarpunk/events/past/?scroll=true#past

“BCN SOLARPUNK || ART SCIENCE & IMAGINATION is an interdisciplinary laboratory for experimentation and discussion about the artistic, political, social, economic, ecological, technological and geopolitical changes.”

2014

Here’s a thing I’ve had around in my head for a while!

http://missolivialouise.tumblr.com/post/94374063675/heres-a-thing-ive-had-around-in-my-head-for-a

“Aesthetically my vision of solarpunk is very similar to steampunk, but with electronic technology, and an Art Nouveau veneer.”

Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto

http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/

“We’re solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”

#solarpunk for socialists

https://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/433710287187767297

#solarpunk for socialists #fusionpunk for fascists#infrastructure #politics

what the heck is solar punk?

http://txwatson.tumblr.com/post/97088763563/solarpunk-thoughts-accessibility

I love the idea of Solarpunk planners and designers and architects keeping in mind as a real priority making their spaces deliberately pleasant, comfortable and helpful for people with disabilities

A Users Manual For A Post-nihilist Praxis

https://syntheticzero.net/2014/09/18/a-users-manual-for-a-post-nihilist-praxis/

An ecologistics capable of producing an infrastructural politics;the deployment of a less naively optimistic (dark) solarpunk libertarian technics; the speculative prospect of transpessimism; the rediscovery and elevation of an ethic of care that might become a generalised Buen Vivir; the active production of autonomous subjectivations that exist outside the constrictions of psychological orthodoxies; and the transcorporeal sapience of machinic coexistence.

Near-future Scenarios for Humans and Planet Earth

http://dankoboldt.com/near-future-scenarios-humans/

I discovered a young sub-genre that is reaching for a more positive, sustainable, and realistic view of humanity’s near-future.

SOLARPUNK:

http://www.solar.org.au/sp-feature/solarpunk/

In this nascent stage, solarpunk appears as a loose collection of ideologies, manifestos, and desires for a sustainable, achievable future.

What is Solarpunk?

https://solarpunkfarmer.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/what-is-solarpunk/

Whether its post apocalyptic or a smooth transition through energy decent, the imagined future is positive and happy. I imagine this future as having resolved any racism, sexism or religious bias. So solarpunk culture would include all races, religions, sex’s, including those with disabilities.

Solarpunk: a new movement sees the future in a positive light

http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/11/10/4122309.htm

“IMAGINE A SUSTAINABLE world, driven by clean and renewable energy. Now imagine large space sailboats driven by solar radiation, production of biofuels via nanotechnology, the advent of photosynthetic humans, and, as there is no perfect society, even terrorism against corrupt businesses and governments. Welcome to the bright green world of solarpunk.”

[Review] Solarpunk (Portuguese)

http://www.vortexcultural.com.br/literatura/resenha-solarpunk/

“instead of retrofuturism, the theme turns completely to the future. Not an alternative future, but a possible future.”

SOLARPUNK É A ESPERANÇA DO FUTURO EM NOSSO PLANETA (Portuguese)

https://coletivofreakgeeks.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/solarpunk-e-a-esperanca-do-futuro-em-nosso-planeta/

There are several forms of expression of the Solarpunk movement, as in architecture, in which stained glass, solar panels and vegetable coverings take hold, as well as in fashion and literature, with reference in Art Nouveau.

2015

7 reasons why solarpunk is the most important speculative fiction movement in the last 20 years

http://kdhume.tumblr.com/post/108932813682/7-reasons-why-solarpunk-is-the-most-important

“1 . It’s hopeful. Solarpunk doesn’t require an apocalypse. It’s a world in which humans haven’t destroyed ourselves and our environment, where we’ve pulled back just in time to stop the slow destruction of our planet. We’ve learned to use science wisely, for the betterment of ourselves and our planet. We’re no longer overlords. We’re caretakers. We’re gardeners.”

Interview with Adam Flynn on Solarpunk

http://eco-fiction.com/interview-with-adam-flynn-on-the-solarpunk-movement/

I don’t think anyone “owns” solarpunk, but I certainly feel like one of its stewards. As to whether it’s a ‘movement,’ I think it definitely has the potential to be one, but I think we’re another year out from it really being there.

Solarpunk

http://www.sherylkaleo.com/solarpunk/

TAKE the POLL! What do YOU think should be done with the domains solarpunk.com and solarpunk.org? Magazine? Bulletin board? Sandbox?

Why Solarpunk?

http://www.sherylkaleo.com/why-solarpunk/

“we need more artists, more writers, more innovators to envision how and where and with what do we transition this world of ours into positive realism, as first coined on the tumbler group.”

DIY Solar Sail Boat. Solar Punk style