Solarpunk Art Collab 2026
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CC BY-SA Paweł 'alxd' Ngei
Disaster
Preparedness,
Response & Relief
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Drama in Solarpunk
Good SF supplies a plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place. A good SF universe has a coherence and internal logic that makes sense to scientists and engineers.
They're (...) simple, recognizable symbols on whose significance everyone agrees.
Hieroglyphs
Neal Stephenson, "Innovation Starvation"
Visual
Symbol
Narrative
Plot
World
Logic
Make the world feel alive!
Which symbols convey meaning?
A floating village built on a scaffolding of an abandoned oil rig in the middle of the sea. Normally hostile, changed into a marine biology research station with its own glasshouses and wind turbines for power generation.
Lots of abandoned fossil fuel infrastructure cluttering the world.
CC BY-SA 4.0 Commando Jugendstil
A community center, library, or educational hub, initially set up to help people like coal miners re-specialize and find other jobs, has now became a place for unofficial “pilgrimages” of people striving to find their role in life and learn history from those who lived it.
Whole industries losing their jobs, replaced by sustainable solutions.
CC BY-SA 4.0 The Lemonaut
Symbols as palette
New Dreams of Labor
Noble / ignoble jobs?
Janitors
Mundane beauty
Solarpunk stained glass
Several janitors cleaning an events hall with a huge, colorful stained glass window.
The first rays of the sun are getting through, painting their faces and the entire room in an ethereal beauty.
This is not a shameful job to be done in darkness.
You can use your own OCs!
You can work on submissions together!
This is not a contest!
Solarpunk Art Collab 2026: Disaster Preparedness, Response and Relief
By Pawel Ngei
