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The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
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#22There's currently a huge push online to make Solarpunk a thing, as a kind of an optimistic counterpart to Cyberpunk, but I'm skeptical about whether it can attain the same level of cultural traction as the other big *punks.
Cyberpunk and steampunk both fetishize aesthetics from the past - 80's corporate Japan and the Victorian Britain, respectively, - there's a sort of nostalgic longing that keeps them culturally relevant. Solarpunk tries to fetishize sustainability in a similar way, but I'm not sure if there's enough foundation there to build onto.
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#23I removed a comment of mine saying Schuiten was a famous belgian comics drawer ("dessinateur de bande dessinee") and his style was kinda unique (and I love that style)... I removed it because I was thinking of Francois Schuiten, not Luc Schuiten.
After some research it turns out apparently these two are brothers!
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#24Very cool, but I don’t want to dwell on all the bugs one would swallow cycling through one of these cities.
I used to get a lot of bugs on my windshield driving through Germany. That stopped in 2014. No more bugs. Bug populations are down 80%, anything we do to help them is needed.
Did you happen to buy a new car? Cars are a lot more aerodynamic now.
I recently drove an old van through the countryside and had to spend 20 minutes washing off insect bits afterwards, like in the good old days...
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#25There's currently a huge push online to make Solarpunk a thing, as a kind of an optimistic counterpart to Cyberpunk, but I'm skeptical about whether it can attain the same level of cultural traction as the other big *punks. Cyberpunk and steampunk both fetishize aesthetics from the past - 80's corporate Japan and the Victorian Britain, respectively, - there's a sort of nostalgic longing that keeps them culturally rel…
Cyberpunk is an explicitly dystopian genre setting so I'm not sure "nostalgic longing" is how I would characterize it so much as searching for a kind of catharsis or fictionalized escape from the things about it people feel parallel their own lives.
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#26This is the first time I hear the term "solarpunk". So this seems to encompass visions of an optimistic future when exploitation of nature, pollution, climate change etc. And strikingly, looking up the definition made me feel an almost juvenile excitement about an idea again which I haven't experienced in a long time. That made me realize that most contemporary visions of the near(er) future seem so bleak and dreadfu…
I feel the same way. My SOs reaction to VR was so viscerally negative. Once I probed it was clearly driven by trends of dystopian futures.
I have the same reaction to VR, what is the optimistic non-dystopian view? I am generally curious because near complete human absorption in technology is what I see and it's hard for me to picture that in a positive light.
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#27Any open world games with this type of aesthetic? I would love to play.
Recently read this on the topic, the artist in the post is great: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/drawing-pictures-of-cities
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#28Any open world games with this type of aesthetic? I would love to play. Recently read this on the topic, the artist in the post is great: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/drawing-pictures-of-cities
Not open world but Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald had a city which could be accesed from an underwate route in order to emerge in a solarpunk styled "town.
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#29This is the first time I hear the term "solarpunk". So this seems to encompass visions of an optimistic future when exploitation of nature, pollution, climate change etc. And strikingly, looking up the definition made me feel an almost juvenile excitement about an idea again which I haven't experienced in a long time. That made me realize that most contemporary visions of the near(er) future seem so bleak and dreadfu…
Looks to me like leprechaun-land. How cynical I have become.
I agree with the sentiment though, just wonder if it would benefit from someone positing a middle-ground that would show a transitional approach. Perhaps some of the larger buildings (I'm thinking of the one with the fountain spilling down it) represent that.
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#30Connecting solarpunk to art nouveau is pretty insightful. I think any new movement like this pulls from some historical reference to frame the idea.
Having visited Barcelona and seeing Gaudi's influence on the architecture there, I understand how a few notable buildings could actually influence the peoples' mindsets.
There has been a ton of advancement in ecological solutions and biomimicry, but tying those changes to design that mirrors nature in an art nouveau way could translate the underlying complexity to something our lizard brains will understand at a glance - it is a powerful abstraction that ties together our innate desire for a safe corner of nature and our social desire for something new and cool.