Director, Center for Science and the Imagination Associate Professor @ASU. I write research experiment for better futures. He/him. Tweets my own.

Joined March 2009
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27 Mar 2023
THAT'S RIGHT. A FUTURE TENSE FICTION PODCAST!
You heard right! Future Tense Fiction has a new podcast. Tune in tomorrow for a conversation between @Annaleen and @themadstone about "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis."
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23 Mar 2023
In which I discuss imagination and the future of learning
In every school, students learn about history—why not the future? On the latest episode of @asueducation's Learning Futures podcast, CSI director @zonal and learning scientist @szuiker discuss futures thinking in K12 education: learning-futures.simplecast.…
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(1/2) This conversation with @zonal, like his Center for Science and the Imagination (@imaginationASU), is a bounty of audacious ideas and a widening of imaginative capacity
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Our festival of futures @asuemerge is looking for volunteers on Nov 19 to help before, during, and after the event @MesaArtsCenter. Water, a meal, and snacks provided! Learn more and register: emerge.asu.edu/volunteer-at-…
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The data is in... Students in @ASU's #DreamscapeLearn biology #VR course had significantly higher lab grades and stronger engagement than peers who participated in the traditional lab course. #highered #edtech news.asu.edu/20221021-creati…

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Read the latest story in our Us in Flux project—“The Island,” by @snarkbat, about ability and disability, journalism, and creating adaptable communities: csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflu…
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19 Oct 2022
Bringing Sundance, Tribeca, Venice to @ASU campus! Announcing VR film series, in partnership with @wonderspaces. Screenings only on @ASU campus, in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering @ASU_ArtsMedia. Starts Halloween weekend. Grab tix now! arizona.wonderspaces.com/vr-…
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Our festival of futures @asuemerge is coming up on Saturday, Nov 19 @MesaArtsCenter! It’s free and open to everyone, with activities for all ages. Bring your appetite and explore “eating at the edges,” the future of food: emerge.asu.edu
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11 Oct 2022
How often do you get to call a Utopian Hotline? Come dial up the future through daytime hours at the call center and evening performances, all at the amazing @asumixcenter in downtown Mesa this week! herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/e…

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8 Oct 2022
It’s such a thrill to be working with @DrSianProctor this year!
We're delighted to welcome the polymathic @DrSianProctor, our new artist explorer in residence, hosted along with our friends at @II_ASU, @SESEASU, and @ASUTheCollege! news.asu.edu/20220930-creati…
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Join us for the 4th International Conference on Anticipation, @Anticipation22, to explore futures thinking, justice, decolonizing anticipation, new media for visualizing futures, and more! Virtual conference on Nov 4 in-person, Tempe, AZ Nov 16-18: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newr…
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Visit emerge.asu.edu to learn more about our festival of the future, coming up on Saturday, November 19 in Mesa, AZ!

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6 Oct 2022
This was a great conversation:
ICYMI: Watch the video of our event “Designing the Future with Applied Sci-Fi,” featuring @bruces @darthjulian @anabjain @worldbldg @radha_mistry , moderated by @BDJFuturist! youtu.be/meALupEOPHw
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Congratulations to Arts, Media and Engineering student, Ivan Mendoza on accepting this great opportunity with The Smithsonian's National Space and Air Museum! @ASUHIDA
Replying to @USLatinoMuseum
#MeetLMSP Ivan Mendoza, intern at @airandspace with the practicum project "Estrellas y Cuentos: A Latinofuturism Oral History Project." Ivan looks forward to showcasing his Mexican American heritage through all the skills he's learned at @ASU_ArtsMedia.
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Still the Best Design Fiction explainer video...simple, straightforward, no boss fights, no academic gobbledegook. Just design fiction. youtu.be/t_UT78JOauM
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"Design fiction is really Design when done well. It's not just a form of popular fiction, like science fiction is. Fundamentally, you really need to understand design." @dbrucehi on power of Design Fiction to shape futures to open @imaginationASU panel w/ @BDJFuturist
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29 Sep 2022
.@anabjain: after a certain point these methods cannot be taught, they have to be undergone. Experiencing a multiplicity of worlds, of voices, is really important. SF can also be dangerous--certain kinds of science fiction may be responsible for the mess we are in today.
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Alex McDowell: our job as designers is to throw the script away. The script is a narrative about what the actors do. Minority Report was a great liberator because it wasn't a script, it was world first.
29 Sep 2022
.@darthjulian: Trying to find out how science fiction can be more responsible. How can you articulate a vision of the future that is more habitable? That seed of possibility--you start pausing on it, reading about it.