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Imaginary Papers: Issue 3

Troy L. Wiggins, Kate Greene & Joey Eschrich

CSI Skill Tree: Waking Mars

with Katherine Buse & Steven Desch

“The Wandering City,” by Usman T. Malik

A story about temporal anomalies, public spaces, and a new global consciousness.

Conversations—Usman T. Malik and James Graham

“A Cyber-Cuscuta Manifesto” by Regina Kanyu Wang

A story about big data, emerging life forms, and a plea for coexistence.

Conversations—Regina Kanyu Wang and Athena Aktipis

Using design-based research to improve peer help-giving in a middle school math classroom

Mawasi, A., Ahmed, I., Walker, E., Wang, S., Marasli, Z., Whitehurst, A., & Wylie, R.
International Conference on the Learning Sciences.

CSI Skill Tree: Subsurface Circular

with Izzy Fiacco & Malik Toms

“Notice” by Sarah Pinsker

A tale of unanticipated mail and the limits of self-reliance.

Conversations— Sarah Pinsker and Punya Mishra

“Fourth and Most Important” by Nisi Shawl

A tale of coded messages, clandestine drone deliveries, and surprising alliances.

Conversations— Nisi Shawl and Ayana Jamieson

Five separate works by Nina Miller for the Us In Flux series. From left to right; a quilt sewn with black thread, embroidered leaves, fabric resist and dye piece, a second quilt sewn with white thread, a woman embroidered with thread

The Art of Us in Flux: An Interview with Nina Miller

A conversation about art that visualizes the future, creative expression in moments of crisis, and how art can be a path into fictional worlds.

Two portraits embroidered on a quilt. The portrait on the left is stitched with black thread on white linen and the portrait on the right is stitched with various colored thread on a dark denim patch.

“Skating Without Streetlights” by Tina Connolly

A story about virtual reality, friendship, and the unexpected benefits of impersonation.

Conversations— Tina Connolly and Dennis Bonilla

Imaginary Papers: Issue 2

Indrapramit Das, Jessie Rack & Joey Eschrich

A couch in front of a window, but it is pieced from multiple fabrics and quilted. It is fragmented and multicolored.

“A Room of One’s Own” by Tochi Onyebuchi

A tale of quantum entanglement and self-care.

Conversations—Tochi Onyebuchi and Michael G. Bennett

Fabric resist and dye piece depicting the moon over the ocean.

“When We Call a Place Home” by Chinelo Onwualu

A utopian tale of historical memory, the dangers of forgetting…and vampires.

Conversations—Chinelo Onwualu and Robert Evans

Imagining and Designing Low-Carbon Futures

video lecture at University of Oklahoma, by Clark A. Miller, coeditor of The Weight of Light and Cities of Light

Green linen embroidered with the white outline of a squirrel, and five leaf shapes cut from multiple colors of fabric secured to the linen with cross stitches in various colors.

“An Attempt at Exhausting My Deck” by Kij Johnson

A short story about backyard ecology, interspecies communities, careful observation, and solitude without loneliness.

Conversations—Kij Johnson and Jessie Rack

Neutrality, “New” Digital Divide, and Openness Paradox: Equity in Learning Environments Mediated by Educational Technology

Areej Mawasi, Arizona State University Earl Aguilera, Frenso State University Ruth Wylie, Arizona State University Elisabeth Gee, Arizona State University

Us in Flux

Us in Flux is a new series of short stories and virtual gatherings to explore themes of community, collaboration, and collective imagination as a response to transformative events. Learn more

Illustrationdone in fabric, quilted landscape with small person looking over vast hills covered in crops.

“The Parable of the Tares” by Christopher Rowe

A short story about food, monoculture, and communities that draw together the human and nonhuman.

Conversations—Christopher Rowe and Michael Bell

Jonathan Alexander

This episode of The Imagination Desk features Jonathan Alexander. Jonathan is Professor of English and Informatics at The University of California, Irvine and author of books such as Writing Youth: Young