Solar punk is a literary and art movement that envision and work towards actualising a sustainable future connected with nature and community.
The maker is the hero
“Solar” for the clean energy and the optimism, opposed to the climate doomerism
“Punk” for counter cultural, post capitalism and decolonial
“Pessimism is a mood, optimism is a will.”
In the same family than Green Punk and Hope Punk, it proposes radical hope.
It’s the the opposite of Steam Punk, Grimdark and Cyberpunk, but like them talks about art and environment.
It’s a rebellion against a rebellion. A dystopia fatigue.
Solar Pink sees individuality as progressivism, but with a strong scaffolding of community.
The word was first mentioned in a 2008 article about wind-powered cargo ship. To this day we are not sure who invented the word.
Things to look up: Olivia Louise, Adam Flynn, Afrofuturism, Bright green environmentalism
Themes of solar punk:
- Renewable energy
- Refusing pessimism
- Sustainable technology
- Racial and gender equality
Examples of solar punk
- Bosco verticale in Milan
- Wakanda
- Ghibli’s castle in the sky, Nausicaa
- Games: numeaera, solar punk 2050, fully automated