SolariseCon 2022: What’s Holding Us Back from a Better Tomorrow?

A day of global conversation on Solarpunk, a movement and a subgenre of speculative fiction in which humanity has addressed climate change. Our society resembles stories we like to tell; we revere a good hero—a singular person to champion a cause, someone to symbolise our aspirations. And if someone goes on a mission or conquest, or comes up with a new startup idea, we call them an “entrepreneur” or a “hero” — they become a genius even if these terms perpetuate inequality or the myth of the “great man. We worship them even when their ideas do not benefit the many. But true change is rarely the work of one person. Change happens when communities form and work together towards a common cause. How can we change our narratives so we move from a hero-obsessed cyberpunk present, to a collective solarpunk future? - Roberto Zamora (he/him) & Juan Pablo Zamora (he/him) eco film-makers, Chile / Germany - Phoebe Wagner (she/her) Writer & Editor of Eco & Speculative Fiction, US - L.X. Beckett (t