Projects

Imaginary Papers: Issue 10
Pippa Goldschmidt, Paul Cockburn & Joey Eschrich

The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
May 12, 2022

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

Ubiquitous Collaborative Support (UbiCoS)
A novel multi-platform approach to scaffolding math learning and encouraging student collaboration.

Sickness, Systems, Solidarity: A Pandemics and Games Essay Jam
The global cataclysm of COVID-19, and the quarantines and social distancing that have accompanied the still-unfolding pandemic, has brought enormous changes to the games industry, the ways we play videogames (and physical games) alone and together, and the meaning and content of games old and new.

Andrew Dana Hudson: Our Shared Storm
Speculative fiction writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson discusses his book, five interlocking novelettes exploring the possible realities of our climate future.

Imagination project helps student veterans see their future more clearly
Scott Bordow, ASU News

Imaginary Papers: Issue 9
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Bob Beard & Joey Eschrich

“Planetary Reversal: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Utopian Plan to Save the Planet”
A Lecture by N. Katherine Hayles Presented by ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict Rescuing the planet from climate chaos

Annual Report 2020/21
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Kamila
Kamila is the apple of her parents’ eye: a brilliant student with a quick wit who wanted to change the world with science and technology. She had a future —

Marcel
The Taliban has re-taken Afghanistan. When Marcel chooses to let her disabled brother leave the country ahead of her, she has no idea if she will ever see her family

Andre
Andre left his country after University when one of his film projects was banned by the government and they persecuted and threatened to jail him. He returned secretly to save

Carlos
Carlos is just like any other young man in his twenties: he wants a chance to make his own way in the world, and define himself on his own terms.

Gladys
Gladys loved her life on the farm: the big open skies, the stars, the chance to see wildlife before it disappeared. And she loved raising her children there, even though

Stay in the Airplane

Not Your Typical AI

Dark Possibilities and Grim Realities

What We Think About When We Think About AI
