Workshop 

Solarpunk Futures

Playing with the Sun is a project to develop open source creative learning activities so people can learn through playing with sustainable energy, born in Aarhus Public libraries. We’ll run an activity called “Your solarpunk future” that invites people to create something they want to see in future that is just and sustainable. You can see an example of this activity in pictures here.

We’ll set this activity up so people can observe, drop-in and participate. We’ll also run a workshop around it for up to 20 people that dives in depth into the potential for open source creative learning activities in libraries, and the potential for playful learning as a means of envisioning new and better futures. 

Host 

Susana Silvestre is founder of BoostYourThinking and an international expert in democratic innovation and citizen participation in public libraries. She served for 12 years as Director of the Lisbon Public Libraries network, leading 18 libraries and driving institutional transformation.

Chair of the Expert Group on Public Engagement at EBLIDA, she develops leadership and participatory programmes across Europe, Africa and Latin America. She is author of publications on citizen engagement commissioned by the European Commission and has published in leading international journals including Library Trends and LibrarIN.

She co-develops the Erasmus+ Active Citizenship: Participation Game with Lier Library (Norway) and was invited in 2026 by SP Leituras and the Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo (Brazil) to keynote and train library leaders.

She holds degrees in Communication Sciences and Library & Information Studies, and a Mastering in Design Thinking from MIT.