Lumberpunk

Lumberpunk is a (not entirely serious) notion of a technological culture that is largely centered around traditional wood-working techniques and forest agriculture. In many heavily wooded places, a majority of objects, vehicles and housing were, until recently, largely made of wood. Instead of buying things made in factories, they were home-made or bought from local craftspeople.

There are some serious, actual cases of modern "high-tech" objects constructed with wood - satellites, sky-scrapers and even luxury computers.

Unlike steampunk, Lumberpunk valorizes a pre-industrial culture where the value of convenience had not yet started to hollow out our ideas of quality, regional identity and direct connection to nature.

It might be considered a variant of Solarpunk that is more focused on materials than energy, looking to our pragmatic ancestors more than an aspirational future.

The term was suggested by notplants to describe the aesthetics and ideals of brendan's more radical experiments and utopian ?Sylvocultue dreams.