Glossary

A circular-economy initiative that transforms decommissioned or second-life solar panels into art, design objects, and educational tools while funding agrivoltaics, digital agriculture training, and social impact projects.

A retired solar panel that has been transformed through artistic intervention — painting, illustration, or visual design — giving it new aesthetic and cultural value.

An accessible collection of artist-intervened panels designed for restaurants, bars, cafés, boutique hotels, and contemporary interiors, priced under $600 USD. A gateway line that allows more people to participate in the project.

A system that combines agricultural production with solar panel installations on the same land. Crops grow beneath or around panels, maximizing space, improving climate resilience, and strengthening rural economies.

A sustainability model where solar panels at the end of their productive life are not discarded. Instead, they are repurposed as art, design, educational tools, or incorporated into research and community projects.

The use of technologies such as sensors, drones, satellite data, AI, and digital platforms to improve agricultural decision-making, crop monitoring, environmental management, and community education.

A blockchain-based digital certificate proving the authenticity, origin, and ownership of an art piece. For SLoS pieces, it also documents the solar panel’s previous life and impact story.

Automated blockchain code that ensures transparent handling of ownership, royalties, donations, and revenue distribution. Eliminates intermediaries and guarantees trust.

A small digital sticker placed on each panel. When scanned with a smartphone, it opens the artwork’s digital profile: origin, artist, energy history, authenticity certificate, and social impact.

Digital tokens that grant participation rights in community decisions — such as selecting which educational or agrivoltaic project the funds will support.

The core principle of transforming waste into cultural value while creating measurable benefits for rural communities — employment, training, gender equity, youth inclusion, and environmental stewardship.

The transparent documentation of a panel’s origin, energy history, recycling process, artistic intervention, and final impact. Enabled through blockchain and NFC technology.

Accessible products — prints, vinyl reproductions, posters, apparel, stickers — allowing broader audiences to support the mission and take home a piece of the project.

A digital counter tracking key metrics: panels recovered, women trained, youth workshops delivered, trees planted, CO₂ offset, communities supported, and funds allocated.

The union of contemporary art with renewable energy, ecology, and social transformation — turning solar waste into cultural and community value.

The project’s development model: combining clean energy, agriculture, digital education, and women’s empowerment to create long-term rural innovation.

High-end, artist-signature pieces aimed at collectors, galleries, and cultural institutions, accompanied by NFT certificates and full provenance.

The mechanism through which sales, sponsorships, and donations finance rural agrivoltaic centers, training programs for women and youth, reforestation initiatives, and circular-economy research.

The system that ensures every transaction, donation, vote, and project allocation is recorded openly, guaranteeing trust and accountability.

The project’s alignment with environmental, social, and governance standards used by responsible companies and investors.

Bars, restaurants, hotels, galleries, and cultural venues that display and sell Second Life of Solar pieces while amplifying the project’s message.

A creative economic model where environmental waste (decommissioned solar panels) becomes the base material for artistic production, and the resulting artworks generate funding for social and environmental projects. Art becomes a catalyst that moves resources, attention, and capital toward sustainability, gender equity, and rural development.

An economic model in which art creation not only avoids generating waste but actively restores or improves social and environmental systems.
For SLoS this means:

• reducing solar waste
• funding agrivoltaics and education
• empowering women and youth
• generating community value
• and creating circular revenue loops

Each artwork retains the physical presence, textures, and imperfections of the original solar module — scratches, micro-fractures, patina, weathering — making every panel a unique archival object from the renewable-energy era. Artists intervene these surfaces through painting, illustration, mixed media, or experimental techniques, giving new cultural meaning to materials that once generated electricity.

It is not just art on a solar panel — it is art with the story of the panel itself.