I’m sketching another photobash, this time a scene of a solarpunk kitchen, and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss an opportunity to include something cool.
My current plan is for this one to be a kind of summer kitchen (like old farmhouses around here used to have) which doubles as a three season porch. I think a lot of the elements could fit a normal kitchen, but some will compliment each other well with this design so it might be a good place to start (and it fits my theme of reexamining older ways of doing things for opportunities to reuse).
My current list of elements:
- a Tamara Solar Kitchen -style oven cooker
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A glass wall (and bit of roof) for growing plants and overwintering sensitive fruit trees
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A solar hot water rig on the roof
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Some sort of plan for compost (currently just a resealable bucket on a counter, but for those of you who know more about composting, I’m happy to build in your dream system)
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A sitting area since people always hang out in the kitchen while you’re cooking anyways.
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Maybe a parabolic grill set up outside, we’ll see if that feels redundant.
I feel like I’m missing a bunch of opportunities, so if you have any ideas, now’s a great time to add stuff
Thanks!! I figure solarpunk societies should be very consensus-driven, so these depictions of them should be too! Folks here have some awesome ideas! Plus it’ll hopefully be good discussions, and worldbuilding fodder
Good luck with your writing! All my attempts at solarpunk come out a bit too postapocalyptic right now but I think I’m getting closer as I work on these pictures. I think we need more solutions-focussed scifi and art to help get people thinking about other ways life could be done. Seeing it demonstrated, even in fiction, really helps I think
Haha I have the same issue.
Here’s one of the first limits of ‘everything has to be local’ I came up with in my somewhat too post-apocalyptic society, once we’re talking kitchen stuff: where do you get your salt from when you live inland?