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.