Even academics are beginning to look at the promise of SolarPunk:
Furthering an exploration of urban landscapes and climate, Dr Jamie Wang, a researcher from the department of Gender and Cultural studies, presented images of Supertree Grove in Singapore, a collection of 50-metre-high trees with winding observation decks, that embody a future climatic imaginary.
These images were further reflected in the images from Solarpunk3 texts that I presented – the utopic images of a future in which the problems the climate crisis engenders have been solved. I asked how images of Solarpunk futures might subvert current climatic and social imaginaries and how they might inform transition to new, just, climatic, and social imaginaries.
3. Solarpunk is an emergent genre of fiction and an art movement that is driven by the following questions: what does a just ecological future look and feel like? And what steps do we need to take to get there?
Drawing the climate and reimagining our future – The University of Sydney