This year’s Design for Planet Festival from the Design Council was pretty impressive. It was all about “repurpose, repair and retrofit”: Design for Planet Positive Business. Showing that design can help businesses prosper whilst also regenerating the

A follower of the Sidmouth SolarPunk snippets has sent in a suggestion for “local electricity production” – and because it’s so quirky and so clever, it has to have a feature of its own. As

Earlier this year, Stephen Gossett and Brennan Whitfield writing for the builtin website gave an excellent overview of the Solarpunk movement. Here are a few choice excerpts: The sunny, internet-born solarpunk aesthetic continues to evolve

Solarpunk started out as a genre of imaginative writing – but the SolarPunk aesthetic and movement is now more than science fiction, although, as with Disney going SolarPunk recently, all these different creative worlds can combine in startling

Solarpunk is a rather difficult thing to pin down – other than it’s about exploring realistic, positive futures where we put respecting and working with the planet at the centre of our visions. For example:

A few years on from its first outings, it’s clear now that SolarPunk is a global movement, whether in Arizona or Koltata, or across most world languages, including français… italiano… deutsch… español… It is receiving inspiration from the Subcontinent and its vision

The aesthetics and ethics of Solarpunk are proving fertile ground for the world of gaming – as already explored in these pages. Here’s an update on one of the first on the market: ‘Solarpunk’ is

You don’t have to be an anarchist to be taken by solarpunk: anarcho solarpunk – Sidmouth Solarpunk But there is something liberating about the whole thing: Solarpunk provides a shining vision of a positive future,

Plymouth has its pirate festival: Plymouth Pirates Weekend returns for swashbuckling fun – BBC News Whitby its steampunk festival: Whitby Steampunk Weekend XVI 2024 – VisitWhitby.com And Burien Washington State USA its solarpunk fest: The

We could say the Vision Group for Sidmouth should be all about being ‘visionary’ – with some examples suggesting this, from its blog pages looking at where being visionary might work, whether it was new