With a built area of 67.5 square meters, this house stands as an example of sustainable architecture in the rural zone...
The second part of our Ecologies issue sees the light of day at a time of ever-proliferating crises. In this context, this issue could be read, among other things, as a missive that puts forward ways of being in the world ecologically, that is, with care, joy, interdependence, more-than-human socialities, respect for past and future generations, as much as with indignation, defiance and demands for justice. Ecological being means, in the spirit of Félix Guattari, attending to the interconnectedness of mental, social and material realms of being, as well as acknowledging the ways in which politics are articulated on scales ranging from the molecular to the planetary.
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The trans-disciplinary research and exhibition project Fermenting Textiles puts active matter at the center through the engagement of artisans, anthropologists, scientists, and artists, as well as more-than-human actors. Fermenting Textiles explores the fermentation of textile in mud and plant material to produce complex dyeing for various use – from traditional hunter shirts in Burkina Faso to kimono silk dyeing in Japan.
The Jean Pain Method is an amazingly simple and an incredibly inexpensive system of extracting both energy and fertiliser from plant life.
By Austin Lai, Yuhgene Liu and Miranda Mitchell Any farmer, gardener or sustainability-minded citizen who composts organic matter might notice that their compost pile generates a substantial amount of heat over the course of a few weeks to months. However, the concept of capitalizing on the thermal energy generated from these compost piles to...
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![Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is <br />pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural <br />elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk <br />for?"](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/114/519/158/179/836/810/original/39c691ad536eec6e.jpg "Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is <br />pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural <br />elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk <br />for?"")
![Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: <br />Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can <br />grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's <br />for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/114/519/167/357/764/988/original/79468ac2a9a54e82.jpg "Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: <br />Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can <br />grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's <br />for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"")
![Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and <br />polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes <br />everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like <br />minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the <br />planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/114/519/169/000/880/737/original/74ab41eb6db7d74d.jpg "Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and <br />polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes <br />everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like <br />minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the <br />planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."")
![Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: <br />"So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what <br />the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a <br />long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a <br />man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/114/519/169/449/222/216/original/4687079217abb57a.jpg "Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: <br />"So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what <br />the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a <br />long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a <br />man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.")
