The Solar Share / DISNOVATION.ORG (FR/PL/CA)
An Edible Solar Currency
Sustainability is the goal, but what does it really mean?
The Solar Share project challenges prevailing economic models with insights from sunlight-harvesting organisms that are crucial to the metabolism of life on Earth. Staged as a one-square-meter microalgae bioreactor, the artwork foregrounds human energy dependence on photosynthesis and proposes harvested edible microalgae as a radical economic unit: The Solar Share. This unit is the biomass produced on one square meter of the Earth’s surface on the day of measure. This edible algae unit is a photosynthetic proof of work that can be consumed, exchanged, or stored as a currency. The Solar Share is an invitation to experience firsthand a transformative economic model that reintegrates human metabolism and energy needs with the actual new energy entering the Earth’s system as photosynthesis. The Solar Share provocatively recenters Earth’s metabolism in economics, redefining sustainability within planetary limits.
Photo: vog.photo
The Solar Share / DISNOVATION.ORG (FR/PL/CA)
An Edible Solar Currency
Sustainability is the goal, but what does it really mean?
The Solar Share project challenges prevailing economic models with insights from sunlight-harvesting organisms that are crucial to the metabolism of life on Earth. Staged as a one-square-meter microalgae bioreactor, the artwork foregrounds human energy dependence on photosynthesis and proposes harvested edible microalgae as a radical economic unit: The Solar Share. This unit is the biomass produced on one square meter of the Earth’s surface on the day of measure. This edible algae unit is a photosynthetic proof of work that can be consumed, exchanged, or stored as a currency. The Solar Share is an invitation to experience firsthand a transformative economic model that reintegrates human metabolism and energy needs with the actual new energy entering the Earth’s system as photosynthesis. The Solar Share provocatively recenters Earth’s metabolism in economics, redefining sustainability within planetary limits.
Photo: vog.photo