Solarpunk Unbound

Program Solarpunk Unbound

Exhibition Solarpunk Unbound
18 – 26 October
11.00 – 18.00 hours
featuring projects, objects, screenings

Expert meeting Agrobotics perspectives
Monday 20 October
14.00 – 17.00 hours – By invitation
Program lead Marius Monen - researcher Avans

Workshop Solarpunk de Buurt
Tuesday 21 October
13.00 – 17.00 hours – Ticket 10 euro – Students 5 euro
Priscilla Haring - mediapsycholoog

Unconference Solarpunk Unbound
Thursday 23 October
14.00 – 17.00 hours – free
Keynote 15.00 Jeroen van der Most - Artist & storyteller

• What does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?

The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the well-designed with the green and wild, the bright and colorful with the earthy and solid.
Solarpunk can be utopian, just optimistic, or concerned with the struggles en route to a better world — but never dystopian. As our world roils with calamity, we need solutions, not warnings.
Solutions to live comfortably without fossil fuels, to equitably manage scarcity and share abundance, to be kinder to each other and to the planet we share.
At once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, and an achievable lifestyle.

Solarpunk de Buurt workshop

Priscilla Haring-Kuipers - Media Psychologist

Tuesday, October 21
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Ticket €10 – Students €5
https://madlab.nl/solarpunk-ddw25/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solarpunk-de-buurt-tickets-1630125492229

Solarpunk is a utopian science fiction genre. An eco-social world where high-tech and low-tech designs converge.
We will experience this art movement and place ourselves in our own solarpunk future.
We will create work from this utopian experience that we will then share with others.
We design our future.

Four-hour workshop

First hour: Guided tour of the MAD solarpunk exhibition, reading solarpunk stories, and discussing the principles of solarpunk.

Second hour: Future experiences. Through various thought exercises, we will explore our own solarpunk future. We will use Episodic Future Thinking as a framework to explore our environment and possibilities. Meditative and creative.

Afterwards, we have two hours to explore our own future.

Painting, drawing, writing, collage, or multimedia. Anything is possible, and materials are provided.
Created work may be included in the exhibition.

Solarpunk Unconference

Thursday, October 23
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM – free
Keynote 3:00 PM Jeroen van der Most - Artist & storyteller

Welcome to the unconference on Solarpunk from an art and design perspective. Together, we will explore how this movement can influence design practices and what opportunities exist to connect sustainability, aesthetics, and functionality.

Solarpunk invites us to think beyond current boundaries: what does a world look like where technology and nature reinforce each other, where imagination forms the basis for sustainable innovation?

Be inspired, challenge each other, and help design future scenarios that are not only desirable but also feasible.