Solarpunks For a Lighter Internet

This project is a series of socio-technical experiments that explore how a sustainable and less energy-hungry Internet could function, what it might look like, and who could be responsible for making it happen.

2021 - ongoing

role: concept, development, technical setup, workshop facilitation, documentation

• Github Code Repository and Workshop Script
• Workshop @ Hackers & Designers, Amsterdam
• Workshop @ De Vrolijkheid, Katwijk
• Workshop @ PageNotFound, Den Haag
• Workshop @ FHNW, Basel
• Workshop @ TUMO, Yerevan

Technically, the project takes 1MB WiFi hotspots running on solar-powered micro-computers as the central prototype of study. It started as a collaboration between Hackers & Designers and Dianaband.

This software and hardware toolchain is activated and further developed through workshops. The workshops explore, in a practical manner how a process of building prototypes for a light internet can be addressed with different levels of access and age groups.