Thank you!

I’m hoping it’ll make my notes useful to others, and I’m also hoping to start a culture of building resources in the solarpunk art scene. Like, if there’s something someone wants to see in solarpunk art, and they feel they can’t write or draw well enough to make it themselves, then make it easy for writers and artists to make that thing by making the info easier to find. Write up a list of details, things to avoid and reasons why, gather visual examples. I don’t know if it’ll work but I’m hoping it sets a useful example.

I’m also hoping this pushes back on something that’s been bugging me - I think because solarpunk is so new, there’s a bunch of people trying to steer its long-term course from the sidelines just by complaining at the people who make anything. (I’m mostly thinking of the subreddit here). And that can get pretty frustrating.

I think it’s also something that could help with building solarpunk media that reflects the movement half of the scene. (I think there’s a bit of a gap right now between the aesthetic side of solarpunk and the nuts-and-bolts permiculture social movement thing trying to carry it out). I think especially if we want artists who’ve just gotten into solarpunk to get the details right, then we need to make the cool ideas we want conveyed in the art easily accessible to them.