I don't think many click through to YouTube videos but it's short and 100% worth your time.

The need for more sustainable manufacture is driving the growth of traditional plant sources and novel biomaterials in lighting, as demonstrated by the light fittings made from natural materials shown here

What would be a cool affix to use in social media usernames to show that you are a solarpunk (or maybe that you also have an account on slrpnk.net)?

Reasoning

Adding an affix helps to better connect with other people and form communities in other apps. It also helps spark curiosity and recruit more members to the call to action.

Examples of affixes

• ⏸️ The pause emoji is used to indicate that you are in favor of pausing AI development due to security concerns.
• 🔵🌌 Means you have an account on blue sky social media
• /dd You are part of the “Don’t die movement”
• (fandom tags) There are too many to count

Some ideas

• (slrpnk) Looks cool, but takes too many characters
• [🌞🌿] Sort of techie, aesthetically pleasing
• 𝙎⃥𝙥⃥𝙣⃥𝙠⃥ More rad, still 4 characters long, but not very accessible
• [🦾🌻] My favourite so far. It has tech, it has ecology, it has accessibility and it has sun/solar. Let’s goo!

Give me your best ideas!

Or just quick ones / which ones

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Artist is Jasmin Siddiqui from the artist duo Herakut.

For me, it's hard to describe what an solarpunk building looks like, but this post has some extreme examples. Basically, for me I tend to look for:

• Designs inspired by nature
• Lots of color (instead of the grey cities tend to be now)
• Greenery
• Designs focused on human happiness, instead of prioritizing what looks most modern
• Designs that promote a sense of community
• Eco-friendly focus

Those below don't all hit all of those points, but something about these just seem like they would fit in a Solarpunk story world.

I would love to see what everyone else things of when someone says "solarpunk building." Please show me!

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian artist, architect, and supporter of protecting the environment. Even his grass-roofed home(not pictured) in 1970 was self-sufficient; running off solar

ULTROS is set in a multifaceted realm – a vast alien landscape teeming with life. Grounded in science fiction, ULTROS comes wrapped in both an eccentric art style from the visionary El Huervo, renowned for his work on Hotline Miami, and a mystical soundtrack composed and performed by Ratvader - Oscar Rydelius. ULTROS explores meta-themes of mental health, life, death, and karmic cycles through deep lore and environmental storytelling.

I feel like it's wrong to associate Solarpunk and Frutiger Aero aesthetics. I know that Frutiger Aero is a huge thing for a lot of us, i do feel appeal as well. And many time when i see solarpunk image i do see resemblances with some images of back then. But i feel that there is something bad about this. Wasn't it just a commercial hook to make us feel like capitalism is good and green ? i mean it principally exist as design for products or images campaign, it is a pure northern capitalistic aesthetic (the worst are the white hands handing the world or the new nokia https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Aero)
I'm confuse when i see it infuse in solarpunk...

btw i'm french so here is my original thought :

J'ai l'impression qu'il y a un problème à associer les esthétiques Solarpunk et FrutigerAero. Je sais que ce courant est assez important parmi nous, et en premiére ligne, j'avoue j'aime regarder ces images. Plusieurs fois en consultant ce qui est proposé pour le Solarp

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The DamiLee video that's been making the rounds generated some interesting conversation around the rather muddled aesthetics of solarpunk. It suggested that the lack of a coherent single aesthetic is a weakness for the genre, and I wonder about that.

I'd agree it's a genre with fewer big visual examples to point to, and which is being pulled in many different directions.

At the same time, I wonder if it's possible or even worth doing. I think it might be hard to get a good universal aesthetic going, especially in architecture, as solarpunk buildings should be built to fit their environment - what's practical, energy efficient, and even what materials are locally available will depend on where the scene is set. Our current society, with its wealth of fuel and concrete, tends to drop the same cookie-cutter building into every climate and just burn more fuel to heat or cool it rather than adapt the design. As cyberpunk isn't aspirational, the societies it depicts can do the same. But