An extraordinary piece of architecture has been in the news of late, reflecting Valencia’s urban utopia. And this week it has been very much part of the Open House 2025 with guided tours through more than 70
One of the most commonly-used images of the SolarPunk movement is that of Singapore’s famous Gardens by the Bay: Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay combines tropical flora with the iconic ‘supertrees’: artificial structures providing a vertical
The ideas driving the SolarPunk vision are going more and more mainstream. Now the latest edition of the New World/New European is keen to look at “Utopia, with solar panels”: Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision
There are many ways to look positively to the future. We can rewrite the future with hope and innovation, we can fall in love with the future and we can change how we think about the future. Or we
What are the best solarpunk games these days – and how do they capture the spirit of solarpunk? Here’s an opinion: The planet is on fire. Rising sea levels, melting ice caps, droughts, and more frequent hurricanes
What is the thinking behind Solarpunk? An oft-quoted piece on Solarpunk [and often referred to on these pages…] is that solarpunk is not about pretty aesthetics. it’s about the end of capitalism. And yet the author
The latest issue of the Big Issue looks at.. a big issue, namely, how the way we think about the future needs to change. Author Sarah Housley looks at positive perspectives “from solarpunk to the metaverse”
Under the rubric ‘Sustainable Sidmouth’, the VGS is a member of the Transition Town movement – and has been so since the earliest days of both the group and the movement. About the same time,
As a genre, science fiction is perhaps one of the best for exploring ‘big ideas’. And in particular, both solarpunk and cyberpunk science fictions make ‘playgrounds for thought experiments’. Whilst the solarpunk aesthetic and movement is
Solarpunk seems to be getting everywhere – and it seems to appeal to all generations. Whether it’s the solarpunk graphic novel or street art to brighten up people’s days, whether it’s the international reach of solarpunk or an alive and