I’ve been thinking about trying to depict some of the ideas from this conversation: https://slrpnk.net/post/12735795, using a sort of flat, diagram-like style similar to this old photobash:
Though a bit more complex. The obvious answer is ‘don’t build cities in swamps’ but we already have a bunch of them, and though I don’t live there I recognize that they have a lot of unique cultural and historical value and are peoples’ homes, so I’m interested in what a solarpunk-adapted version of these would look like.
At the same time, I know basically nothing about New Orleans or similar areas, have no background in civil engineering, and no qualifications to make this except for the capability to do so using an old version of GIMP. So I’d absolutely love to identify issues, places to make improvements, and things that are missing now rather than once I’ve spent days chopping up images and finessing them into something coherent.
So what’d I get wrong? What’s unworkable, out of scale, or dangerous? What style of buildings or cultural touchstones would you like to see? What kind of plants are missing?
Love the sketch and the picture. Us Germans call them “wimmelbilder” and they tend to be super colorful, high detail, picyures for kids (and adults) to stare at and find more and more stuff. The R site had a community dedicated to them that was pretty cool. Would love to see one here.
In my opinion, one of the strengths of your design is the contrast of old and new. The skatepark makes me think of Burnside in Portland
Thank you for the name (genre?) recommendation! I had a sense of the kind of image I was referencing with these but not a name for it. Often, looking up the type of art I want to make solarpunk versions of is a huge source of inspiration and one of my favorite parts of the process! I enjoyed stuff like this as a kid but I don’t know if I can think of a name for it. It’s fun to look through them again!
And thanks! I definitely enjoy trying to show reuse, repurposing, and a mix of old and new.