We’re building the foundations // Solarpunk Foundations cycle 4 starts tomorrow!

Solarpunk Foundations Cycle 4 starts tomorrow with a new cohort of solarpunks, and marks the School’s one-year anniversary.

This isn’t just another art workshop or activist training, it’s both/and, a hybridized space where we’re learning to become artist-activists who can actually make the future we’re talking about. Four sessions. Four pillars. Energy / Space / Knowledge / Exchange. Each one a node in the network we’re building together.

Sessions that blur the line between theory and practice, lectures that spark ideas, then we get our hands dirty.

We’re talking power grids and street murals, community spaces and post-capitalist exchange systems, knowledge-sharing that doesn’t replicate hierarchies. Solar panels, soil, sound, solidarity. The physical stuff that makes utopia tangible.

Radical imagination meets practical tools. Fierce optimism grounded in material reality. A room full of people who believe that art is infrastructure, that beauty is resistance, that we can build decentralized nodes of collective joy while dismantling the systems that are killing us.

We need artist-activists who can wire a solar panel and paint a vision of energy democracy. Who understand that a community garden is post-capitalist social infrastructure. Who know that the revolution needs both manifestos and making.

This is for us, the builders, dreamers, tinkerers, troublemakers. The ones who refuse the false choice between “serious politics” and “serious play.” Who know that our work is urgent, physical, joyful, and necessary.

In solidarity and serious play,

Alastair Ball

Head of storytelling

The London School of Solarpunk​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​