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Solar Punk Festival

  • SPF 18
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  • Empowering people
    to create positive and
    ecologically-balanced futures.

    Solar
    Punk
    Festival

    SPF

This network brings together stake­holders from diverse backgrounds to create proactive visions for ecolog­i­cally-balanced futures. By giving these concepts shape and form we help make them tangible and open them up for discussion. Images of the future help us to navigate social and techno­logical change in the public sphere and to map pathways toward real systemic change.

A Look Back at SPF18

Formats

Solar Punk Festival

A platform for inter­dis­ci­plinary exchange and creation that brings together artists, scien­tists, and researchers during an intensive period of collab­o­ration.

Academy

Workshops and classes that use hands-on creative processes to make proto­types and projects that explore the energy transition.

Research & Action

A living lab where science meets civil society. These public-oriented projects envision sustainable futures and offer a real-world testing ground for trans­for­mative ideas.

Dr. Edgar Göll

IZT – Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment

»The word punk it’s something strong and unusual, it’s protest and possibility. I think this is exactly what we need. When we work as scientists and publish books or reports only very few people read that stuff. Therefore, I think it’s so important that people pick up some of the results of those insights and present them to others.«

Thinking in futures

The energy transition is part of an enormous trans­for­mation process, demanding not only techno­logical and political change, but the active support of an entire society. We want to empower people to imagine their desirable futures. Using foresight method­ologies we encourage partic­i­pants to leave the possible and think in their own utopias. These shouldn’t be restricted by feasi­bility or practi­cality. Fiction is therefore a necessary method to open spaces of possi­bility and to allow the questions of “What if?”. In this way we encourage people to create excitement and to think the big.

Our Goals

Connect cross-disciplinary stakeholders in creative processes

Spark conversations around potential worlds we want to live in

Create visual narratives to translate the visions to a wider audience

Use artifacts and prototypes to confront and spark discussion

Encourage new visions and thought spaces

Create excitement for the energy transition

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