A paint and paper collage of a wrought iron fence over grass transitioning to tall sunflowers over rich brown soil.

University, Speaking, by Phoebe Wagner

A story by Phoebe Wagner about reimagining universities as radically open to their communities, and better attuned to addressing local challenges.

CSI Skill Tree banner, featuring a screenshot from the game Inside, showing a small person peering up into the light in a cavernous indoor environment. Superimposed on the image are headshots of our guest speakers, Amos Roddy and Tochi Onyebuchi.

CSI Skill Tree: Sound and Worldbuilding in Video Games

with Amos Roddy & Tochi Onyebuchi

Becoming Birch, by Carter Meland

A story by Carter Meland about rock music, unexpected connections, and northern Minnesota forests.

Solutions for unfinished learning

ASU News

Imaginary Papers: Issue 10

Pippa Goldschmidt, Paul Cockburn & Joey Eschrich

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

Life After Carbon Imagining the City of the Future

Clark Miller Event – Video

Cities of Light: How Will Solar Energy Transform Urban Futures?

Clark A. Miller Event – video

Building Solar Cities Rethinking How Cities Get Their Power

Clark A. Miller Event – video

CSI Skill Tree banner, featuring a screenshot from the game Cloud Gardens, showing plants overgrowing an abandoned car and other refuse. Superimposed on the image are headshots of our guest speakers, Ken Liu and Liz Fiacco.

CSI Skill Tree: Cloud Gardens

with Ken Liu & Izzy Fiacco

Ubiquitous Collaborative Support (UbiCoS)

A novel multi-platform approach to scaffolding math learning and encouraging student collaboration.

Boomtown

 by The Weight of Light and Cities of Light collaborator Andrew Dana Hudson, in the anthology Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures (2022)

Imagination project helps student veterans see their future more clearly

Scott Bordow, ASU News

Imaginary Papers: Issue 9

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Bob Beard & Joey Eschrich

Annual Report 2020/21

Annual Report 2020-2021 PDF Annual Report 2020-2021 EPUB

Solar Futures: an Interview with ASU’s Joey Eschrich & Clark Miller

Solarpunk Futures podcast

Banner image for CSI Skill Tree: Outer Wilds. On the left side, headshots of Randy Smith and Luc Riesbeck. On the right side, a screenshot from the game, showing a first-person image from inside a spaceship, nearing a planet.

CSI Skill Tree: Outer Wilds

with Randy Smith & Luc Riesbeck

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