¿WHAT IS SOLAR FUTURES?
SOLAR FUTURES is a Creative Europe-supported collaboration bringing together four leading cultural organizations working at the intersection of art, science, and technology: OHME (Belgium) together with Electroni[k] (France), iii (The Netherlands), and LEV Festival (Spain), in partnership with two associated universities, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), to support transdisciplinary artistic practices that imagine alternative, desirable futures.
SOLAR FUTURES invites three individual artists to create new works exploring Solarpunk, a movement envisioning optimistic, ecologically harmonious futures where humans, technology, and nature coexist sustainably.
WHY SOLARPUNK?
Solarpunk envisions desirable futures where technology, ecology, and community co-exist harmoniously. Positioned against techno-pessimism and climate anxiety, it promotes open-source tools, circular systems, low-impact technologies and decentralised cooperation. While Solarpunk has emerged in design and literature, it remains underexplored in institutional artistic contexts. SOLAR FUTURES brings this vision to life through concrete artistic production and public engagement.
THREE WORKS, THREE FORMATS, THREE THEMES
Each artist will create one work choosing a specific format linked to a thematic pathway:
- Physical Installation, on Renewable Energy and Circular Resources
Explore energy autonomy, decentralized infrastructures, recycled materials, bio-based design, and circular economy principles. - Screen-Based Experience, on Permacomputing and Digital Sobriety
Engage with low-impact digital creation, energy-efficient code, open-source tools, and alternatives to extractive tech models. - Live Performance, on New Imaginaries for Political and Societal Organisation
Envision post-capitalist, inclusive futures through alternative governance, care economies, community resilience, and prefigurative politics.
PRACTICAL INFO
Deadline: March 15th, 2026 at 23h59 CET
For more info and to submit your project, please visit the solarfutures.eu website.
Watch the recording of our Info Session held on February 4th via this link: INFO SESSION
