The Tower

The Tower

Displaced people are moved into a new sustainable climate-controlled tower designed to help them find community. For some it’s a dream come true, for others a culture shock. How will this setting come to life as a vision for a Solarpunk future? How can we envision a better way of living by focusing on their humanity?

Transcript: https://wiki.tomasino.org/writing/Solarpunk-Prompts---The-Tower

Links mentioned:

• https://unece.org/climate-change/news/future-sustainable-building-wood
• Palaces For The People by Eric Klinenberg
• https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/in-defence-of-density-benefits-of-highly-populated-city
• https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/urban-density-and-sustainability/241696/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-10/why-denser-cities-are-smarter-and-more-productive
• https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2014/jul/29/cities-density-building
• https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2023/04/17/when-density-good-and-when-it-harmful-cities
• https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1203950823/15-minute-cities-climate-solution

Music in this episode is: ‘Moonlight’ and ‘A Kind of Hope’ by Scott Buckley (CC-BY 4.0)