Solarpunk and neoromanticism
A field note on imagination, repair and futures worth wanting.
Solarpunk asks us to rehearse futures that are both possible and worth wanting.
Between ecological crisis and technological acceleration, imagination is not decoration. It is infrastructure: a way of deciding which systems we refuse and which relationships we choose to cultivate.
Practising a liveable future
Solarpunk stories do not promise a frictionless paradise. They ask what repair, mutual aid and shared abundance might look like when they become ordinary.
A beautiful future is not automatically a gentle one.
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The city is not the opposite of nature. It is one of nature’s stranger behaviours.