CSI 2012-2022
Celebrating 10 years of igniting collective imagination for a better future
For the last 10 years,
we have created inspiring, inclusive, technically grounded visions of the future by bringing together artists, authors, and educators with scientists, technologists, policy thinkers, and community members. We have published collections of science fiction, nonfiction, and art; led informal and formal education initiatives around science, technology, culture, and society; hosted public events and forums and created podcasts and videos about science fiction, media arts, and possible futures; conducted interdisciplinary research about collaboration and imagination; and more.
highlights
books published
2012
September
Official CSI launch event
November
First Science Fiction TV Dinner event, featuring Star Trek: The Original Series
2013
January
The Imagination Project, ASU student organization, forms
May
Press event and exhibit at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix
October
Sprint Beyond the Book activity at Frankfurt Book Fair, with Intel
2014
January
NASA workshop: Understanding Literature and Art Cultures for Transformative Research
April
NSF-funded workshop on Frankenstein bicentennial, scientific creativity and responsibility
September-October
Hieroglyph launch events at White House OSTP, Google, Tumblr, and Facebook
October
EVOKE narrative hackathon in Phoenix with World Bank, to develop innovation education materials
November
Margaret Atwood delivers 1st Imagination and Climate Futures Lecture
2015
January-May
Designed and taught Arizona 2050 course with historian Paul Hirt
March
Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad delivers multimedia presentation at Emerge at SkySong
September
Paolo Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl) delivers 2nd Imagination and Climate Futures Lecture
October
Launch 1st global climate fiction contest, with lead judge Kim Stanley Robinson
2016
2017
January
25th Science Fiction TV dinner, featuring CSI: Cyber
April
NASA workshop: Narrative Projections for Commercial Space Futures
September
Kim Stanley Robinson delivers the 4th Imagination and Climate Futures lecture
October
EVOKE narrative hackathon with World Bank in Colombia
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures
2018
January-December
Frankenstein Bicentennial STEM events for learners and families at dozens of science museums across U.S.
January-February
Frankenstein: Annotated featured on Science Friday’s public radio book club
June
Launch Frankenbook at Pioneer Works space in Brooklyn, New York
October
Frankenstein evening at Gammage, featuring performances from Southwest Shakespeare Company and ASU Chamber Orchestra
November
Future of Childhood Salon on Immersive Media and Child Development, hosted with Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Dubit
Drawn Futures: Arizona 2045
Frankenbook
Open-access digital edition of Frankenstein: Annotated
2019
April
Omar El Akkad (American War) delivers 5th Imagination and Climate Futures lecture
May
AI Policy Futures workshop and public event in Washington, DC
December
CSI-originated story wins Sturgeon Award for best science fiction short, and A Year Without a Winter named one of NY Times’ best art books
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II
The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures
A Year Without a Winter
Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
2020
January
Launch of CSI’s podcast The Imagination Desk
February
40th Science Fiction TV Dinner event, featuring Stargate: SG-1
Narrative hackathon on solar cities at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
April
Us in Flux series of flash fiction stories and events on community, collaboration, and resilience
June
Launch of CSI Skill Tree, a virtual series on video games, worldbuilding, and futures thinking
October
Alien Zoo narrative development workshop with Dreamscape Immersive team
2021
March
Presentation to the Department of Energy’s Solar Technologies office about Cities of Light
September
Virtual launch event for Climate Imagination Fellowship with the British Library
October
Climate futures workshop at TED Countdown Summit in Edinburgh with Kim Stanley Robinson and Vandana Singh
November
FUTURES exhibition at Smithsonian Arts and Industries building, featuring stories and art created by CSI
EVOKE virtual narrative hackathon with World Bank
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume III
Cities of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures
2022
April
Imagining Transportation Futures event with Sec. Pete Buttigieg and science fiction authors
May
Accepted Women and Philanthropy award supporting the Veterans Imagination Project
Applied Sci-Fi project kickoff with workshop and event on “The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech”
June
Presentation about CSI futures methods to Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
November
Co-sponsor global Anticipation Conference at ASU Tempe
Sickness, Systems, Solidarity: A Pandemics and Games Essay Jam
2023
Spring
Workshop on the future of orchestras with Alex Laing, principal clarinet at Phoenix Symphony
First cohort of Arizona STEM Teacher Fellows convening, funded by the ESSER grant
Fall
Host climate storytelling event with SciRens science filmmakers group at ASU Herald Examiner Building
Future Projects
Futures Thinking in K12
Personal Futures
Arizona Space Futures
Imagination Studies
Imagination Field Building
Reimagining Transmedia
Under contract, submitted for peer review with the MIT Press
Climate Action Almanac, supported by ClimateWorks Foundation grant
In preparation
Applied Sci-Fi book, supported by Sloan Foundation grant
In preparation
Imagination, Annotated series, with the MIT Press
In preparation
Monograph on imagination, by Ed Finn
In preparation