Solarpunk Futures

Looking for serious summer fun, collaborative future-building, and a sneak-peak into an artist’s process as they create work? Come playtest Solarpunk Futures, a new artist's game created by members of Solarpunk Surf Club! Participants will be introduced to gameplay, playtest a few rounds, and offer feedback to the artists.

Solarpunk Futures is a rules-light role-playing game where players imagine the pathways to a desirable world from the perspective of a utopian future. Players use a deck of cards to adopt Personae (e.g. grower, engineer, newcomer) and work together using Tools (e.g. recycled materials, equipment library, off-grid energy) and Values (e.g. care, responsibility, usufruct) to overcome a set of real-world Challenges (e.g. borders, ableist infrastructure, climate refugee crisis). Through dialogue and collaborative worldbuilding, collective and visionary narratives emerge of a new society, along with plausible scenarios for how to get there.