2024/25 Annual Report
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Veterans Imagination Project Community Workshops
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Arizona STEM Acceleration Project
Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
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The Applied Sci-Fi Project
The Applied Sci-Fi Project, made possible by support from the Sloan Foundation, is an event series and research project that brings together science fiction writers, futurists, scholars, and technologists to
EVOKE: The Collaborative Process
EVOKE: The Collaborative Process from Science & the Imagination on Vimeo.
Want to change the future? Start with a great story. EVOKE is a massive multi-player online educational game that uses narrative to help players develop 21st century skills and drive collaborative innovation.
Griots and Galaxies: Tendai Huchu
This week’s episode of Griots and Galaxies features a conversation with hosts Chinelo Onwualu, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and guest Tendai Huchu, published under T.L. Huchu. Originally from Zimbabwe, but based in Edinburgh, Huchu is the author of the Edinburgh Night series, which concluded with the fifth and final British Science Fiction Award shortlisted novel, Secrets of the First School. He also writes short fiction, which has appeared in numerous venues, and he dabbles in translation between the Shona and English languages. In this episode, they talk about pitfalls of the publishing market, hurdles specific to African writers, and Tendai’s journey through different genres of fiction. He shares elements of his world-building and series planning, and the influences behind work.
2025/26 Annual Report
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Griots and Galaxies: Chido Muchemwa and Mubanga Kalimamukwento
This week’s episode of Griots and Galaxies features a conversation with hosts Jenna Hanchey and Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and guests Chido Muchemwa and Mubanga Kalimamukwento. Muchemwa, published under C.T. Muchemwa, is a Zimbabwean writer and academic, author of the short story collection ‘Who Will Bury You?’ and Other Stories. Kalimamukwento is founding editor of Ubwali Literary Magazine, and the first African winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She is an award winning writer and author of ‘The Mourning Bird’, ‘Unmarked Graves’, ‘Obligations to the Wounded’, and ‘The Shipikisha Club’. In this episode, they talk about grief and the specific challenges of losing parents overseas. Further in the conversation is what it means to preserve black women and their influence after their passing, how we build communities around their teachings in their honor, and the catharsis of writing speculative fiction for processing trauma and building a cultural archive.
Griots and Galaxies: ‘Pemi Aguda
This week’s episode of Griots and Galaxies features a conversation with hosts Chinelo Onwualu, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and guest ‘Pemi Aguda from Lagos, Nigeria. ‘Pemi is the author of ‘One Leg on Earth’ and ‘Ghost Roots’, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Awards in Fiction, the LA Times First Fiction Prize, and the Penn Faulkner Award. In this episode, they discuss the connecting line of setting, symbolism, and spirituality in her stories, how it ties in to ‘Pemi’s background in architecture, and the importance of facing evocative subject matter head-on in speculative fiction.
CSI Skill Tree: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
with CY Ballard & Troy L. Wiggins
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Imaginary Papers: Issue 27
Andrew Dana Hudson, Inês Montalvão & Bob Beard
Matt Heffernan
The conversation explores the role of imagination in problem-solving, playwriting, language, culture, and technology. It delves into the impact of imagination on identity, the planet, and ethical considerations in AI.
Pat Patarunutaporn
The conversation covers a wide range of topics related to human-AI interaction, imagination, and the impact of AI on human flourishing. It delves into the role of imagination in shaping AI interactions, the design of AI for human flourishing, and the ethical considerations of AI addiction and dependency.
Brian Christian
The conversation explores the intersection of art and technology, the alchemy of language and creativity, the pitfalls of co-creating with AI, and the hopeful future of AI and imagination. It delves into the impact of generative AI on creative agency, the sublime and emergence of style in AI, and the importance of engaging with AI and imagination.
Anna Abraham
The conversation delves into the nature of imagination, its relationship with consciousness, perception, and society, and the impact of the digital age and external influences on imagination. It also explores the paradox of individual and collaborative imagination.
Imaginary Papers: Issue 26
CY Ballard, Jason Nabi & Vandana Singh
Into the Unknown: Exploring ‘Absence’ with Andrew Dana Hudson
Andrew Dana Hudson on His Creative Journey and Latest Work By Zakkary Parker What happens when a crisis has no blatant cause? Writer, sustainability researcher, and critical futurist Andrew Dana
Concluding Thoughts
Section V: Concluding Thoughts When we first arrived, and for twenty years after that, Mars was like Antarctica but even purer. We were outside the world, we didn’t even own
Exoplanets
Section IV: Exoplanets Suddenly Nadia felt a breeze swirl through her nervous system, running up her spine and out into her skin; her cheeks tingled, and she could feel her
Asteroids
Section III: Asteroids Back in the socket, on the other side of the cable, upbound elevator cars were being loaded with refined metals, platinum, gold, uranium, and silver. Then the
Imaginary Papers: Issue 25
Anne W. Johnson, Brenda Cooper & Troy L. Wiggins
Mars
Section II: Mars She tumbled, landed on a knee and both hands. Her gloves broke through the duricrust. It felt like a layer of caked sand at the beach, only
Low Earth Orbit
Section I: Low Earth Orbit “But the General Assembly can’t be happy that you’ve given the first concession to an old South African weapons manufacturer!” Helmut shrugged. “Armscor has very
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures
That is utopia … especially for primitives and scientists, which is to say everybody. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars You are reading the HTML version of Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection