Spotlights

 

We present the innovative works of designers, architects and adventurers who use solar energy in a creative way in their projects.

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Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall is internationally recognized for her large-scale art glass installations and solar projects.

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SolarStratos

The purpose of the SolarStratos mission is to become the first manned, solarpowered stratospheric flight in history.

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The Sea Cleaners

The Manta-boat, a giant solar-powered catamaran to clean the ocean of plastic by  navigator Yvan Bourgnon.

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Solar World Cinema

The mission of Solar World Cinema is to democratize the access to cinema.
Its objective is to raise awareness and stress the importance of switching to renewable energies.

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Finding Infinity

Finding Infinity is an organisation dedicated to speeding up the world’s transition to renewables through creativity and consulting.

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Raphaël Domjan

Raphaël Domjan has completed several adventures around the world using the energy of the sun.

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Lunar Cubit

Lunar Cubit is a site specific proposal to be constructed in Abu Dhabi just outside
Masdar City, the world’s first zero carbon metropolis once completed.

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Alexandre Dang

Alexandre Dang’s works trigger debate on the use of energy today and on the energy perspectives in the future.

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Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

Artists Mags Harries and Lajos Heder merge the artistic elements of light, color and shadow with the science of energy and sustainability to create SunFlowers, an iconic public art installation.

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The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI)

The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) brings together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, engineers, and others to build public art installations that uniquely combine aesthetics with utility-scale clean energy generation.

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Solar Impulse

A historic flight: Solar Impulse descends directly from a long tradition of exploration, scientific development and protection of the environment.

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Solar Roadways

Solar Roadways is a modular system of specially engineered solar panels that can be walked and driven upon.

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Solar Bell

Tomás Saraceno’s Solar Bell is a flying sculpture that is built using the latest technologies in the field of lightweight materials and sustainable energy technologies.

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Solar Sinter

In this experiment developed by Markus Kayser sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process.

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Solar Equation

“Solar Equation”, developed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer,  is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing.

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Little Sun

Little Sun is a solar powered lamp created by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen.

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