Solarpunk Visions
for Makerspaces
Pawel alxd Ngei
GIG 15.10.2025
Pawel Ngei
programmer • hacker
activist • educator
based in Poland
with GIG since 2015
alxd.org
Sharing GIG stories
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Communicating Real Open Projects
Photo by OpenFlexure
Imagining non-western futures
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Responding to Climate Crisis
© 2024 Sipa via AP Images, Indonesia
Ebola Crisis of 2014
Photo: iDT Labs Salton Massally
Local technologists
save the day
re-building the hospital
payment system
iDT Labs
Salton Arthur Massally
Harold Valentine Mac-Saidu Francis Banguara
Recognized as... entrepreneurs?
More at lenses.alxd.org
We need
a new language
Solarpunk
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Makerspaces & Library Economy
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Non-
western
futures
and
presents
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Local solutions to Climate Crisis
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Karl Schulschenk
Andrewism
We need humans to imagine a different future
storySeedLibrary.org
Upcoming: Appropedia
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Sketch by the Lemonaut
We need
your stories
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Thank you!
