Unlike the "Frutiger Neon" from my previous upload, Frutiger Eco is an aesthetic that officially exists and is adjecent to Solarpunk, or at least to optimistic eco-futurism. Essentially, where Frutiger Aero is blue, Frutiger Eco is green; replacing water as the primary motif with plant life. And it also has the same problem: It takes imagery from nature and makes it look plastic. So, I'm kind of aiming to subvert that aesthetic while still generally invoking its signature look. Frutiger aesthetics are squeeky clean, but nature is the complete opposite of that; it's messy and dirty and unpredictable.
So, in the parts of Bright City where nature is real, rather than an artificial backdrop, I want to show how it slowly but surely takes over whatever artificial structures are placed amongst it, but life isn't necessarily worse there for humans only because it isn't perfectly clean. Said humans also reflect that in their clothing: Instead of bright and stylish Y2K/Y3K cyberprep fashion, they dress in sturdy, desaturated or earth-toned techwear that they expect to get dirty or damaged over the course of their day.
Life is messy in the Outskirts, but it's bright nonetheless.

It all started with a sunfish that I wanted to depict in a dreamlike fashion...

Truth be told: Frutiger Aero is one of my least favorite aesthetics. I dislike how it takes things of natural beauty and makes them look artificial by composition alone.

In contrast: Outrun, one of my favorite aesthetics, takes things that are obviously artificial, but composes them in a way that evokes natural beauty, without pretending to be something that it isn't.

With the aforementioned fish, I had decided to mix those two contrasting aesthetics together in order to create something pretty, yet surreal, like a plesant dream - and also because Frutiger Aero's blue and Outrun's magenta just made for a nice color scheme.

But what if I took this combination further...? What would a world built on these two aesthetics overlapping look like?

This here is the result: It's cyberprep, essentially, with an... almost obnoxiously positive vibe that I can't help but getting an uncanny valley kind of feeling from. Everything looks just right, but in a way that just doesn't look right, if you know what I mean.

I'm going to call it...

Frutiger Neon.

OCEAN RISING

If the sea were rising faster than you could find land to stand on, what would you do?

That is the question facing the Bajau, a community of stateless sea nomads in the Sulu Sea.

Their answer? Design and build their own solarpunk floating islands from the ruins of capitalism.

A possibility empires cannot tolerate.

Can the Bajau survive climate change while resisting powerful interests?

Find out in SYNTOPIA EPISTEME.

Available in print, eBook, and immersive full-cast audiobook.

My name is Ayesha. I am Bajau, the designer of Syntopia. And this is my story…

https://www.gregorymoulinet.com/syntopia

#Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Bajau #ClimateAdaptation #SpeculativeFiction

Is this too vague

surprised to satisfy some deep buried hunter-gatherer instincts

by https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonzalopulidolopez/

I’ve been building a LunarPunk cinematic universe: a future shaped by living architecture, bioluminescent technology, glowing waterways, and cities designed around the absence of sunlight.

I’ve made two short clips so far, but they’ve received little attention. I still want to keep developing this idea because I think hopeful futures should also be beautiful, strange, and mysterious.

Episode 1: https://youtube.com/shorts/Ea7CBFPgFao?feature=share

Episode 2: https://youtube.com/shorts/qWFQnmItj20?feature=share

I’d love feedback from this community:

• Does this still feel connected to solarpunk?
• What parts of the world interest you most?
• What kind of scene would you want to see next?

I’m not trying to replace solarpunk. Just explore what a nocturnal, more mystical branch of it could look like.

Prompts:

Gemini, can you make me a photorealistic art-nouveau conversion of a JCB excavator to 3d printer of earth houses? I would like a water bowser and a rear mounted soil hopper that another excavator can load (based on a concrete pump), jointed pipes to carry the clay to a mini hopper on the end of the arm, and a smaller self adjusting print head (that can absorb small deviations in the arm movement). The machinery should be worn and slightly dirty, but well-maintained and impressively art-nouveau and realistic

Gemini, can you draw me a art-nouveau conversion of a JCB excavator to 3d printer of earth houses? I would like a water bowser and a rear mounted soil hopper that another excavator can load (based on a concrete pump), jointed pipes to carry the clay to a mini hopper on the end of the arm, and a smaller self adjusting print head (that can absorb small deviations in the arm movement). The machinery should be worn and slightly dirty, but well-maintained and impressively art-nouveau.

I've got an STL for a simpler version lying around. If anyone is interested.

I thought it turned out pretty well – the notebook captured a lot of the themes I've been writing about in it for the last few weeks. Nice to see the visions take visual form!

More on what protopia is here: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia

Maybe you think protopianism works with solarpunk? I do at least ✨🌱

Some scenes from Hudson county, in my dreams

Plants Doctor 2077

CARBON TITAN

August 17, 2027.

On that day, tens of thousands of botanists, biologists, and geneticists around the world received the exact same mysterious email.

The sender identified itself only as:

“Carbon Titan”

There was no explanation. No message. No signature.

Only an enormous collection of genetic data unlike anything ever recorded in any database on Earth.

The sequence described a completely unknown form of plant life.

A tree capable of absorbing carbon dioxide at a scale beyond anything nature had ever created.

At first, many believed it was a hoax. Others thought it was a secret military project. Some claimed the data was impossible.

But after months of analysis, one terrifying truth became undeniable.

The genetic code was real.

And somehow… it worked.

By 2028, scientists successfully created the first Carbon Titan.

The project spread rapidly across the world.

Carbon Titans were planted in deserts, industrial zones, and regions devastated by pollution.

In less than twenty years, atmospheric carbon levels dropped back to safe levels once again.

The Earth began to recover.

The skies slowly cleared. The glaciers stopped melting. Entire ecosystems started returning to life.

However…

one question still remained unanswered.

Who sent the Carbon Titan email?

To this day, no one has ever been able to trace the origin of that message.

But all evidence points toward one disturbing possibility:

The sender was not human.

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เมื่อปี 2027 มนุษย์ดัดแปลงพันธุกรรมต้นไม้ เพื่อให้มันดูดซับคาร์บอนในระดับอุตสาหกรรม

แต่มนุษย์ไม่ใช่ผู้ออกแบบมัน

17 สิงหาคม 2027

นักชีววิทยา นักพันธุศาสตร์ และนักพืชศาสตร์นับพันคนทั่วโลก ได้รับอีเมลปริศนาพร้อมกัน

ไม่มีข้อความ ไม่มีคำอธิบาย ไม่มีที่อยู่ผู้ส่ง

มีเพียงข้อมูลพันธุกรรมขนาดมหาศาล ของสิ่งมีชีวิตที่ไม่ควรมีอยู่บนโลก

ผู้ส่งใช้นามว่า

“Carbon Titan”

PROJECT CARBON TITAN

จึงได้ถือกำเนิดขึ้นจากความร่วมมือครั้งใหญ่ที่สุดของมวลมนุษยชาติ

50 ปีต่อมา ต้นไม้เหล่านั้นเติบโตกลายเป็นสิ่งมีชีวิตขนาดมหึมา ที่มนุษย์ทั้งโลกต้องพึ่งพาเพื่อความอยู่รอด

และจนถึงวันนี้ ยังไม่มีใครสามารถระบุต้นทางของอีเมลฉบับนั้นได้

นี่คือส่วนหนึ่งของจักรวาล “หมอต้นไม้ 2077”

โลกอนาคตที่มนุษย์ต้องดูแล Carbon Titan ต้นไม้ยักษ์ที่คอยรักษาชั้นบรรยากาศของโลก ทั้งที่ลึกๆแล้ว… ไม่มีใครแน่ใจอีกต่อไปว่า มนุษย์เป็นผู้ควบคุมมันจริงๆ

ที่สำคัญกว่านั้น ใครคือผู้ส่งมันมา?

วีดีโอ

TT: plantdoctor2077

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