Oct 8, 2018–Oct 8, 2018 from 5:00pm–6:00pm
San Diego 2049: Student Info Session
SAN DIEGO 2049: STUDENT INFO SESSION
Open only to UC San Diego graduate students; refreshments provided
October 8, 5pm–6pm, Robinson Complex 3202, UC San Diego
The School of Global Policy and Strategy is celebrating its 30th anniversary by partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination to produce San Diego 2049, a series of programs through 2018–19 that will use the imagination and narrative tools of science fiction to stimulate complex thinking about the future and the ways we could shape it through policy, technology, innovation, culture, and social change. On October 8, organizing professor John Ahlquist (GPS) will provide an overview for UC San Diego graduate students interested in participating in the San Diego 2049 competition and earning a Certificate in Speculative Design for Policy Making.ABOUT SAN DIEGO 2049:
If we are to leave the earth in better shape than we found it, successful social choices will require us to imagine distant alternate futures that reflect our best knowledge about how humans behave and evolve socially, politically, and cognitively. Science fiction gives us the needed space for long-range speculation and the complex interactions of technological, political, and social change. Imagining the future helps us react to unanticipated situations—futures that we did not imagine. This competition and event series foster diverse visions for San Diego in 2049 from UC San Diego graduate students and draws on research by faculty across divisions. By bringing together students, science fiction writers, faculty, policy makers, and industry experts, we aim to foster the kind of multi-modal, boundary-crossing thinking that we need today to anticipate the potential shape of the world thirty years from now. The San Diego 2049 student competition, open to graduate students from all disciplines at UC San Diego, provides hands-on experience in sophisticated futurist forecasting and science fictional thought experiments to develop robust scenarios, clarify problems, and develop policy solutions in an emergent near-future. Student teams will have the opportunity to learn from science fiction writers and futurists, and be paired with a GPS faculty member for guidance on policy implications. Through workshops and panels, teams will develop their worldbuilding skills. Mini-grants will be available to assist in the creation of their own interventions in these futures, empowering students to take ownership over the complex ways in which our actions in the present influence the shape of the world a generation from now. For more information, please see the San Diego 2049 website.Date and Time
Oct 8, 2018–Oct 8, 2018
from 5:00pm–6:00pm
Location
Event Registration
Registration is not required for this event.
Event Fee
Free
Contact
Patrick Coleman • pcoleman@ucsd.edu • 858-534-6875
Audience
Students
Event Host
School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination