News & Events

Reality+: A Conversation with David Chalmers

January 27, 2022

Into the Metaverse

October 7, 2021

Clarion Winter Writers Series

February 24, 2021

How To Astronaut, with Terry Virts

November 24, 2020

The Great Debate: The Nature of the Universe

November 10, 2020

The World in 2050 and Beyond, with Martin Rees

November 10, 2020

Speculative Futures Virtual Symposium

October 6–30, 2020

Design Lab: Student Opportunity

SDFutures: Imaginative Writing for Teens

Summer 2020

Post-Pandemic Futures

June 2, 2020

New Profiles of the Future: The Extended Pause

NASA Award to Advance Stem Cell Therapies in New Space Station Lab

April 8, 2020

XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance

March 26, 2020

An Evening with N.K. Jemisin

April 3, 2020

Chasing Einstein: The Dark Universe Event

March 2, 2020

Cultured Data Symposium

February 7, 2020

“What Is Imagination?” on January 15, 2020!

January 15, 2020

Is ET Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard? with James Benford and Paul Davies

January 30, 2020

Speculative Futures of Ecologies and Climate Change Symposium

November 22, 2019

Art + Empathy Lab

Introducing Dr. Erik Viirre, New Director of the Clarke Center

2019: A Space Organoid

July 21, 2019

See Us at San Diego Comic-Con!

July 18–21, 2019

Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley with Bestelling Author Julian Guthrie

June 3, 2019

San Diego 2049: Closing Keynote with Kim Stanley Robinson and Team Project Competition

May 22, 2019

San Diego 2049: Your Dystopia Has Been Canceled

April 4, 2019

Speculative Futures Studies

Einstein’s Quantum Riddle: Special PBS NOVA Screening and Panel Discussion

March 4, 2019

San Diego 2049: Radical Economies

February 19, 2019

Dyson & Benford: Foreseeing the Next 35 Years—Where Will We Be in 2054?

January 30, 2019

San Diego 2049: Worldbuilding Hack-a-Thon

January 26, 2019

Sir Roger Penrose: Lecture on Hawking Points

December 14, 2018

An Evening with Cixin Liu and John Scalzi

November 12, 2018

Fred Adams: The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe—and Possibly Others

November 8, 2018

San Diego 2049: The Future of Labor, Work and Industry

October 29, 2019

San Diego 2049: Opening Events

October 12 and 13, 2018

Clarke Center at Comic-Con

July 19, 2018

Why: What Makes Us Curious, with Mario Livio

June 11, 2018

Star Trek, the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE & the Future of Medicine

June 2, 2018

Imagination and Human Origins Symposium

June 1, 2018

Root Worlds: Intersectional Foundations for New Imaginations

May 19, 2018

Graphic Science: Comics Engage the Cosmos

May 8, 2018

Losing the Nobel Prize Event

April 25, 2018

Remembering Kate Wilhelm

March 8, 2018

Roger Penrose Lecture: New Cosmological View of Dark Matter

January 19, 2018

Into The Impossible Podcast

Imagining the Future of Climate Change

January 1, 2018

TASAT: A Database of What-If Scenarios

An Evening with Andy Weir

December 7, 2017

First Report: The Recent Solar Eclipse

October 10, 2017

TEAMS: Interdisciplinary Augmented Reality for Undergraduates

Tromper soi-même: Sight, Touch, and Augmented Reality

July 14, 2017

Science Fiction Meets Architecture: Designing for an Aging Population

June 29, 2017

Cosmology and Cocktails

June 25, 2017

2017 Clarion Workshop Write-a-Thon

June 25–August 5, 2017

Octavia Butler at the Huntington Library

June 23, 2017

Sir Roger Penrose: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy and the Big Questions in Modern Physics

June 5, 2017

George R. R. Martin in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson

May 2, 2017

Share Festival, Turin, Italy

March 30 and 31, 2017

UC San Diego Expansion and the Clarke Center

March 26, 2017

Sally Ride Fellowship for Women in Physics

March 16, 2017

The Anorexic Brain

March 15, 2017

Entanglements: Rae Armantrout & the Poetry of Physics

April 13, 2017

TRAPPIST-1 Discovery

Hidden Figures, with Dr. Jedidah Isler and Dr. Yvonne Cagle

March 9, 2017

Ambivalent Designs with Tara McPherson

March 2, 2017

Innovation Explorer Forum

February 23, 2017

My Elegant Robot Freedom

Feb 10 - May 14, Vitra Design Museum

Harold Cohen, Creating Computational Creativity

January 19-February 17, 2017

FutureProofing on BBC Radio 4

January 18, 2017

Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World

January 10, 2017

Raw Science Film Festival

December 10, 2016

The 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Awards

November 29, 2016 5-8pm

Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London

November 24-25, 2016

Sheldon Brown at Goldsmiths

November 23, 2016

PLENARY TALK: Creating the Perfect Human? The Ethics of Enhancement

November 10, 1pm-3pm

Lab at the Google Cultural Institute: Arts and Machine Learning Summit in Paris

November 3 & 4, 2016

Arrival Premiere, with Writer Ted Chiang

November 7, 2016

How to Make a Spaceship, with Peter Diamandis, Julian Guthrie, and Brian Binnie

Greg Tate at UCSD

October 18, 2016

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop 2017

June 25 – August 5, 2017

Brown at Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture Conference

September 22, 2016

Adam Burgasser at Griffith Observatory

September 19, 2016

Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tešanović Residency

August 19 to September 15, 2016

Tricorder XPRIZE and Star Trek: Beyond

Assembly in Science of the Unseen: Digital Art Perspectives

Time, Mathematics, and the Mind of God

August 10, 2016

Assembly at Design Forward

June 16 + 17, 2016

Sci Fi Meets Architecture in the News

May 24, 2016

Shaping Change: Remembering Octavia E. Butler Through Archives, Art, and Worldmaking Conference

June 3-5, 2016

Assembly Cognogenesis at Filmatic Festival

May 7, 2016

Three Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Worlds Discovered

Science Fiction Meets Architecture: London 2080

The Future is Here 2016

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Graduates Nominated for the 2015 Nebula Awards

An Evening with Freeman Dyson

Childhood’s End on SyFy Channel

December 14, 2015

The Nature of Creativity at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

Clarion Foundation President Karen Joy Fowler visiting UC San Diego

November 17, 2015

2015 Arthur C. Clarke Awards

October 28, 2015

Matt Kaplan and the “Science of the Magical”

November 10, 2015

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, 2016

June 19-July 30, 2016

Beach Physics and BE WiSE Overnight

October 2, 2015

Mozart and the Mind

September 25-27, 2015

IBM Donation

The Physics of Free Will

Thursday, August 6, 6:00PM

Who’s the Muse? Science or Science Fiction

Sunday, July 12 • 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Comic-Con 2015, San Diego Convention Center

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop 2015

Beach Physics with Physics Girl

Latina/o Science Fiction Now!

Thursday, May 28, 3:00 PM

Are We Alone Are You Alien

Wednesday, June 3, 5:00 PM

Sleep Dealer Discussion and Screening

Wednesday, May 27, 6:00 PM

Discussion with Architect, Liam Young

April 21, 12:30 PM

Woman in the Moon Screening and Discussion

May 21, 6:00 PM

Filmatic Festival by ArtPower!

April 30-May 3

The Future is Here 2015

May 14 - 17th, 2015 in Washington DC

Are We Alone?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Discussion & Screening

April 1, 6:00 PM

Clarke Center Undergraduate Imagination Research Grants Awardees

Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Graduates nominated for the 2014 Nebula Awards

UC San Diego Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program

Creative Catalysts: SoCal Innovators Meet Up

Thursday, February 26, 6:00-8:00 PM

Degrees of Freedom Public Lecture Series

Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. in the Great Hall of International House

Clarke Center Director Sheldon Brown receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in Digital Media and Learning

from UCSD News

Cosmology Prize Recognizes ‘Inventive’ Proposed Test of Fundamental Physics

Abramovic Method Workshop and 3015/Work in Progress/in collaboration with Kim Stanley Robinson

January 2015

Portrait of Marina Abramovic, 2012
© 24 ORE Cultura S.r.l. and © Laura Ferrari
Courtesy of The Marina Abramovic Archives

Going to the Ends of the Earth to Discover the Beginning of Time | Brian Keating | TEDxSanDiego

from UCSD News and TEDxSanDiego

David Brin consults for new SyFy Series, “Ascension”

December 15, 9pm

Clarke Center Undergraduate Imagination Research Grants

Clarke Center Awarded Two Grants

Science Fiction and genre publishing. And, what is Literary Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction anyway?

SHAUN OF THE DEAD Discussion and Screening

December 3, 6:00 PM

MIT Enterprise Forum: Boldly Explore Where No Enterprise Has Gone Before

Kim Stanley Robinson on John Muir

2014 Arthur C. Clarke Awards

Digital Materiality at Urban Scale: Increased Resolution Fabrics of Architecture, Alisa Andrasek

Finalists named for Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize

Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, 2014

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN Discussion & Screening, September 25, 2014

GATTACA Screening & Discussion, August 11, 2014

How Big is the World?: Exploring the Multiverse in Modern Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Beyond

FREDERICK ORDWAY III, 1927-2014

Edgeland Futurism

Friday, June 7th 5PM - 8PM, San Diego

“2001: A Space Odyssey” Screening and Discussion

Atkinson Auditorium, June 12 6:00pm

Mozart and the Mind

Saturdays, May 10, 17, and 31

“Contact” Screening and discussion with SETI Institute Trustee Jill Tarter and author David Brin

May 8th, Atkinson Hall Auditorium

“Embodied cognition and the magical future of interaction design” named Notable Article

from Computing Reviews

Gregory Benford and Larry Niven book signing

April 12 at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore San Diego

Ayse Saygin, Jordan Crandall speaking at Robots and New Media

April 4th 2014, Berkeley Center for New Media Symposium

Peter Diamandis named one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders

from cnn.com

Scalable City opens at the Galeries du Forum

from meyrinculture.ch

The Future is Here 2014

May 16-18th at Washington DC

BICEP 2 Telescope, co-created by Brian Keating, show scientists ‘fingerprint’ of Big Bang

from UCSD News and UT San Diego

Random Dance: Mind and Movement by Wayne McGregor, with David Kirsh

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 @ 7:30 pm at Guggenheim Museum

Galileo and the Music of the Spheres

Friday, February 21 at UCSD Atkinson Hall

2014: Year of Pivotal Change

on Coast to Coast AM radio, January 12, 2014

Imagination Gets a Boost with $1 Million Gift

ViaSat named Founding Partner of Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in recognition of donation

Galaxy Garden Workshop

Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 10am to 4pm at UC San Diego, Price Center East ballroom

UC Working Group in the Philoshopy of Perception: Awareness of Space

Fall Workshop, December 7, 2013

Sheldon Brown Presents at Cinematic Innovation Summit

December 5-6, Dubai

Becoming Galactic: Citizens of the Galaxy

December 3, 2013, 5:30 to 7:30 PM at UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Robots, the ‘uncanny valley’ and learning to love the alien

Can we rewire our human distrust of robots that look like us?

The Arts of Piranesi: Architect, Etcher, Antiquarian, Vedutista, Designer

review by Sheldon Brown

New UC President Janet Napolitano visits the Clarke Center

Photos inside

Erik Viirre, Clarke Center Neuroscientist, discusses renewed interest in virtual reality

from kpbs.com

2013 Arthur C. Clarke Awards

Tuesday, October 22, 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Intelsat Headquarters

$10 Million Qualcomm Tricorder Competition

from startrek.com

Sony Scholar Awards

Submit applications by Monday 10/21 at Noon

Math and The Body and The Mind

October 16, 2013 5:30pm to 7:30pm at UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall Auditorium

“Our Star Will Die Alone” at the Without Walls Festival

Oct 4-5 at 10:30pm, south patio of Galbraith Hall

The Once and Future Kepler Mission / Directed Energy Planetary Defense

August 26, 2013, 5:30pm to 7:30pm at UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall Auditorium

VIDEO: The Literary Imagination with Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson

on UCSD TV

‘Space Odyssey’ Author Inspires Imagination Research Center

from space.com

Creativity in the Arts: A Neuronal Hypothesis

June 6 at 4 pm, UC San Diego, Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building, Room 149

Starship Century

May 21 - 22 at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Symposium: Visions Of The Future

May 14, 2013 from 1pm - 5pm, UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium

The Literary Imagination

May 14, 2013 at 7pm, UC San Diego, Price Center Ballroom

Remembering Arthur C. Clarke

Exhibit: May 1 - 30, 2013; Public Reception: May 21, 6pm - 8pm

Creativity and Imagination: Views of their cultural and neuroscientific basis

Wednesday evenings @ 8pm, February 6 - March 6, 2013, UC San Diego campus, Applied Physics and Math Building, Room 1882

Mars Curiosity Landing Seminar

November 2, 2012

Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building Grand Opening

September 14, 2012