Overview
The Solar Commons Model empowers trust beneficiaries by showcasing their “equitable title” to the trust benefits of solar energy in public-facing art. Through murals and celebrations, Solar Commons beneficiaries make visible and public the community values they bring to the trust agreement. Public art is also used to make visible the social transformation of energy from neoliberal market-valued fossil fuels to gifts of the sun’s bounty. For the Solar Commons Toolkit, the art team creates flexible process tools so that place and agent-making public art can be done in all Solar Commons communities. Also, because solar energy is a distributed, universal technology, the Solar Commons art team will be researching (and making visible on this website) how communities around the world envision solar energy technology embedded in cultural values that show equitable relationships among earth systems and social systems.
Besides enlivening the schoolyard, the mural functions as an equitable title of the sun’s common wealth for he beneficiary community.
Visible Cultural Infrastructure (or whatever heading)
2 paragraphs on how the mural functions as equitable title include your cool example of kids telling visitors the story
