Jan 26, 2019–Jan 26, 2019 from 11:00am–3:00pm
San Diego 2049: Worldbuilding Hack-a-Thon
San Diego 2049: Worldbuilding Hack-a-Thon January 26, 2019 11am – 3pm Robinson Complex 3203 RSVP required; UC San Diego graduate students only To jump-start worldbuilding projects as part of the yearlong San Diego 2049 program, we’re hosting a Worldbuilding Hack-a-Thon. Coming to inspire and share advice and insights are: Rose Eveleth, journalist and host of the podcast Flash Forward; Emilia Louisa Pucci, Designer-in-Residence at the UC San Diego Design Lab; Shelley Streeby, professor, Director of the Clarion Workshop, and author of Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-making through Science Fiction and Activism; and Jake Bowers, professor and theorist of “future politics” through the intersection of science fiction and political science. It’ll be a mix of idea sharing, hands-on group work time, Q&A, and opportunity for conversation to push worldbuilding projects into new terrains of the possible and into the impossible.
ABOUT SAN DIEGO 2049:
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. The largest challenges facing life on earth—climate change; the possible emergence of new autonomous, intelligences; the decentralized ability to edit genetic material—are multi-generational, contingent, and uncertain. Choices taken today will have hard-to-foresee consequences; the pace of technological change means that policy choices may struggle to keep up. 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
Jan 26, 2019–Jan 26, 2019
from 11:00am–3:00pm
Location
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Event Fee
Free
Contact
Patrick Coleman • pcoleman@ucsd.edu • 858-534-6875
Audience
Students
Event Host
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the School of Global Policy & Strategy