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Case Study: Mars College
A seasonal solarpunk off-grid pop-up in the desert
I’ve been hearing rumors about Mars College for years, and it sounded straight out of science fiction: artists, AI kids, and hippies building some kind of solarpunk utopia in the desert? I might be biased, but in general Martians are: passionate, physically attractive, intelligent, well-traveled, open-minded, incredibly supportive, generous even when broke, late, and often named “Sam.” They are people who, at some point in their lives, have needed to listen to themselves instead of to the wider society. By the end of the 2025 season, we settled on an elected five-person council (plus the founders, Gene and Freeman) given large leeway and trust to organize next year’s Mars with the mandate to also move towards a sociocracy-based system.
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