SolariseCon 2022: Is Solarpunk Just Another Style?

A day of global conversation on Solarpunk, a movement and a subgenre of speculative fiction in which humanity has addressed climate change. An attempt to visualise an alternative future inevitably takes us down the route of aesthetics — what could this new future look like? How would we dress if we were part of this future? What would be our new identifying symbols? A quick image search would yield cityscapes that are lush with green, some with hints of photovoltaic means of energy generation, and a few scattered wind turbines. How accurate are these images in depicting Solarpunk as a movement? And is “solarpunk fashion” actually an oxymoron? - Guglielmo (he/him) & Laura (she/her) from Commando Jugendstil, Solarpunk Creative Collective, UK / Italy - Joao "q1r0z" Queiroz (he/him) Amazon Futurism Artist, Brazil - Dustin Jacobus (he/him) Artist & Design Engineer, Belgium Moderated by: Pawel Ngei (he/them) Hacker / Activist, Poland https://solarisecon.org/