Categoria: English
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Solarpunk Italia at the UERA 2025 Conference: Solarpunk is the Poetics of the Future
This post reproduces the text of the speech by Matteo Scarfò and Jessica Simmons on behalf of Solarpunk Italia, at the 2025 UERA Conference “Research alliances for climate-neutral, sustainable and equitable urban communities”, Rome 26th-28th February 2025 We are here today to represent the collective of activists and enthusiasts of art and literature who founded…
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The ‘punk’ of Solarpunk
by Giulia Abbate English translation by Antonio Ippolito Some months have passed since the inauguration of solarpunk.it portal, months which to us have meant a whirlwind of translations, popularizations, organization of contents, presentations and discussions; all this while we have been realizing a fact: in the portmanteau “solarpunk”, meant to be explanatory of the movement…
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Utopia And Conflicts: The Maximalist Nature Of Science Fiction
by Franco Ricciardiello We have written previously on Solarpunk Italia website about the relationship between Utopia and conflict:
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Utopia and Conflict: Suggestions and Roads Ahead
by Giulia Abbate English translation by Antonio Ippolito Conflict is the starting point of narrative: without a conflict, there wouldn’t be a story to tell.
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ATLANTIS: solarpunk stories from Italy
Can books save our lives? Maybe. Definitely they can make it better, more tolerable and more interesting Delos Digital’s ATLANTIS is a series of books born with the explicit intention of publishing solarpunk literature: utopian, optimistic, speculative fiction.
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Interview with Artur Rosa
Franco Ricciardiello From its birth one year ago and until today, Solarpunk Italia home page has presented itself to the public with a splendid, evocative work by Artur Rosa, “The craters of Lyra 9”; the second image, the smaller that accompanies our Manifesto, is also a work of the same hand: a detail of the…
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The Utopia that wants to exist
Is Solarpunk 21st Century’s science fiction? by Romina Braggion & Franco Ricciardiello, from Robot magazine no. 91. Translation by Antonio Ippolito Solarpunk is not just a subgenre of science-fiction. It is an intellectual movement and an aesthetics declined in several forms of art. It addresses a clear demand for hope in the future, and represents…
