May 16, 2017
…its own brand of “speculative culture,” the Clarke Center integrates the arts, sciences, humanities, engineering and medicine to better understand, enhance and enact the outcomes of human imagination. It considers the modes from which imagination operates: neurological, cognitive and socio-cultural. Public programs are a key medium for exploring and presenting…
September 26, 2022
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego brings together scientists, artists and engineers to better understand, enhance and encourage imagination.
January 14, 2019
On January 17th, the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego makes first contact with a new art exhibition rich with themes of space travel, resistance and revolution.
May 11, 2017
…humanize other-worldliness of science fiction and fantasy Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Science fiction and fantasy came to life in the real and human forms of authors George R.R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson May 2 at the Price Center West Ballroom. The genre giants, each with ties…
September 5, 2017
The Fall 2017 exhibition in the Qualcomm Institute’s gallery@calit2 at UC San Diego, Speculative Dolphin Theatre, opens Oct. 5 and runs through Dec. 8. A public reception follows a panel with artist Lisa Korpos and cognitive scientist Christine Johnson.
April 19, 2023
University of California San Diego faculty members Patrick Anderson and Jac Jemc are newly announced Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious distinction awarded annually by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
September 26, 2022
An uncanny number of speculative fiction writers have roots at UC San Diego. Author Sarina Dahlan ‘98 explores this phenomenon with other alumni writers.
April 4, 2016
University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Professor Lisa Cartwright has spent her career working across different disciplines.
November 29, 2018
…the tools of science fiction in order to anticipate and highlight future policy issues. Author and alumnus Vernor Vinge. The program, San Diego 2049, challenges UC San Diego’s graduate students to think outside the box and imagine a world unlike the one they are living in today. In small, interdisciplinary…
January 17, 2019
…San Diego-led projects include: Speculative Futures Shelley Streeby. Photo courtesy shelleystreeby.com. Professor of ethnic studies and literature Shelley Streeby will lead the development of the Cross-UC Speculative Futures Research Group, as practitioners in the emergent field of Speculative Futures Studies use literature, art, and theory to create more sustainable worlds…
