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2023/24 Annual Report

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Text: "What will you be in the future?" over a woman looking off with icons of technology swirling around her head.

Veterans Imagination Project Community Workshops

Learn new skills to navigate your transition and define your post-service success.

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.

Hear From Past Participants

How VIP Can Change Your Trajectory

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.

Expanding Our Solution Space: How We Can Build an Inclusive Future

By Deji Bryce Olukotun This essay was originally published by the Center for Science and the Imagination in Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, a 2017 collection

Banner image for Imaginary Papers, Issue 19, with the words "imaginary papers" cut out of a sheet of white paper, and the numeral 19 in a green circle.

Imaginary Papers: Issue 19

Philipp Kürten, Chinelo Onwualu & Christopher Cokinos

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CSI Skill Tree: Signs of the Sojourner

with Leigh Alexander and Mia Armstrong-López

Banner image for Imaginary Papers, Issue 18, with the words "imaginary papers" cut out of a sheet of white paper, and the numeral 18 in a turquoise circle.

Imaginary Papers: Issue 18

Alexis Lothian, David J. Staley & Joey Eschrich

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CSI Skill Tree: Mass Effect: Andromeda

with Souvik Mukherjee & Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

2022/23 Annual Report

Center for Science and the Imagination celebrates 10 years

How To Transition From Soldier to Civilian

Bob Beard on how to make long-term plans amid the culture shock of civilian life. Slate.com

Veteran Imagination Project helps soldier dream big for next career

“You know, we’re trying to populate the desert, well you can’t do it without food,” said Curtis Merritt. Merritt is sharing his vision for the future of agriculture, one that

Program helps veterans reckon with reintegration

Veterans Imagination Project helps vets craft future narratives, find success ASU News

Imaginary Papers: Issue 17

Erin K. Wagner, Joe Tankersley & Joey Eschrich

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CSI Skill Tree: Game Localization

with Siyang Gao & Emily Xueni Jin

Introducing Griots & Galaxies

This is a ten episode series hosted by Jenna Hanchey, Chinelo Onwualu, and Yvette Lisa Ndlovu that explores the work of ten African speculative fiction authors and imagining new futures for the continent.

Griots & Galaxies: Wole Talabi

In this conversation, Wole speaks about gods going on heists and how technologies hold the potential to bring us together in alternative histories and imagined futures.  

Griots & Galaxies: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

In this conversation, Kemi takes us to galaxies far, far away, reimagining the hero’s journey through African-centered space opera. 

Griots & Galaxies: Suyi Davies

In this conversation, Suyi talks to us about godpunk, Stranger Things, and how to support African and other marginalized writers…

Griots & Galaxies: Tlotlo Tsamaase

In this conversation, Tlotlo talks with us about queerness, the dead, and how African surrealist stories illuminate the politics of African urban landscapes.

Imaginary Papers: Issue 16

David K. Seitz, Katherine Buse, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Joey Eschrich

Griots & Galaxies: Chinelo Onwualu

In this special episode of Griots & Galaxies, Yvette interviews her cohost, editor and author Chinelo Onwualu. Chinelo shares with us her experiences as cofounder of Omenana and a forerunner in African speculative fiction…

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CSI Skill Tree: Hypnospace Outlaw

with Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Katherine Buse