I tend to lean towards "appropriate tech" instead of "high tech." I see BioRegional circular economies being incredibly important for the majority of our goods and production. Tech got us into this problem, I don't see it saving us. We have all the tech we need. SolarPunk praxis is about taking what we have to build dual power and restore balance.
The idea of a more rooted approach to solarpunk kind of connected to the topic of sustainable development I've been learning about. I love the idea of taking our modern cities with all their benefits and making them greener and sustainable, it's a cool mashup of like cottage-core and urban utility.
It seems like a hard thing to prove, both in terms of fiction and architecture and to state the obvious it will vary from place to place Africa with Afrofuturisim will be a far cry from the UK and it's quirkiness.
I have just learned that the dreams I’ve been visualizing for humanity are all clearly defined in an existing movement called Solarpunk!
Well, I’m someone who wants to pitch that vision in a big way. I’m a musical artist just getting started. I’ve needed to identify my audience avatars… and this movement fully aligns with my butterfly mission, so I’m thrilled to learn about it.
I am someone who grew up in a solar heated house designed by my pioneering dad in the seventies. He’s a modest architect and doesn’t want his name spread all over the internet. In fact, he got quite cross with me for posting a sketch of his - a pen and ink rendering of a Grecian oracle’s ruin made in the sixties when he lost his camera. That story is significant to his entire career. I wanted to share it with one of my poetic posts… but he was not happy about that. He has some valid fears about the internet, so I can’t drop his name now, but I am working hard to get him to write a book of his works. He’s spending a lot of his energy leading the senior citizens in his residency in the fight against climate change. He’s gotta write the book, though. He’s 88!
I know this is the movement I’ve been seeking to follow his lead, but I’m not an architect.
I’m a poet and a fledgling recording artist—unemployed educator— who is beginning work as an Agent of Change in earnest. Music is a powerful vehicle for empowering social change. I’ve studied music all of my life with this vision in mind. I’ve been a secret agent designing my own blueprint with words and sounds.
Please view /listen to my website when you have a moment. My vocal work is forthcoming- a song called “Catching a Glimpse” you will catch a glimpse of my passion, philosophy and vocal/lyrical ability… I’m just getting started, but a chrysalis is designed to release the butterfly.
I designed my own changing chamber. It’s a vocal booth.
I believe that my best environmental pieces so far are instrumentals: An Oceanic Chorale and Icy Étude in Dm.
They could support a video for the movement, perhaps.
Another issue filled with great content and links.
Thanks Joe! What was your favourite bit?
I tend to lean towards "appropriate tech" instead of "high tech." I see BioRegional circular economies being incredibly important for the majority of our goods and production. Tech got us into this problem, I don't see it saving us. We have all the tech we need. SolarPunk praxis is about taking what we have to build dual power and restore balance.
Feel this chimes a lot with the point in our manifesto "Yes to Tech, No to Technocracy" (https://www.solarpunkstories.com/our-manifesto) - have you read it?
You might also enjoy this previous post we did https://solarpunkstories.substack.com/p/tech-wont-save-us
Now I have, great stuff!
Thanks :)
These are so cool! I started following this to learn more about fiction writing, but it's also a great inspiration for engineering.
Great! What inspired you in particular?
The idea of a more rooted approach to solarpunk kind of connected to the topic of sustainable development I've been learning about. I love the idea of taking our modern cities with all their benefits and making them greener and sustainable, it's a cool mashup of like cottage-core and urban utility.
It seems like a hard thing to prove, both in terms of fiction and architecture and to state the obvious it will vary from place to place Africa with Afrofuturisim will be a far cry from the UK and it's quirkiness.
Indeed. Have you read the other post we did about Imaginary Worlds? https://solarpunkstories.substack.com/p/imaginary-solarpunk-worlds Part of it is focusing on African Futurism (as distinct from Afrofuturism)
Hello!
I have just learned that the dreams I’ve been visualizing for humanity are all clearly defined in an existing movement called Solarpunk!
Well, I’m someone who wants to pitch that vision in a big way. I’m a musical artist just getting started. I’ve needed to identify my audience avatars… and this movement fully aligns with my butterfly mission, so I’m thrilled to learn about it.
I am someone who grew up in a solar heated house designed by my pioneering dad in the seventies. He’s a modest architect and doesn’t want his name spread all over the internet. In fact, he got quite cross with me for posting a sketch of his - a pen and ink rendering of a Grecian oracle’s ruin made in the sixties when he lost his camera. That story is significant to his entire career. I wanted to share it with one of my poetic posts… but he was not happy about that. He has some valid fears about the internet, so I can’t drop his name now, but I am working hard to get him to write a book of his works. He’s spending a lot of his energy leading the senior citizens in his residency in the fight against climate change. He’s gotta write the book, though. He’s 88!
I know this is the movement I’ve been seeking to follow his lead, but I’m not an architect.
I’m a poet and a fledgling recording artist—unemployed educator— who is beginning work as an Agent of Change in earnest. Music is a powerful vehicle for empowering social change. I’ve studied music all of my life with this vision in mind. I’ve been a secret agent designing my own blueprint with words and sounds.
Please view /listen to my website when you have a moment. My vocal work is forthcoming- a song called “Catching a Glimpse” you will catch a glimpse of my passion, philosophy and vocal/lyrical ability… I’m just getting started, but a chrysalis is designed to release the butterfly.
I designed my own changing chamber. It’s a vocal booth.
I believe that my best environmental pieces so far are instrumentals: An Oceanic Chorale and Icy Étude in Dm.
They could support a video for the movement, perhaps.
Morpho-TheButterfly.net