Future Imagination Fund

Current Projects

In addition to its Collaboratory, the Future Imagination Fund (FIF) also supports collaborative, interdisciplinary projects aligning with our mission to harness the power of imagination to create a more beautiful and equitable future.

At this time, current FIF projects include:

Silhouette of people overlooking San Francisco during 2020 fires, with text "This Is Not A Drill" overlaid on top

*This Is Not A Drill*: Technology, Art, and the Climate Emergency

Program Director: Mona Sloane (2020 FIC Fellow)

APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED.

*This Is Not A Drill* is a faculty working group on technology, the climate emergency, and creative practice that will collaboratively develop a new public pedagogy and explore designs that dismantle the harmful hierarchies created between human/non-human and culture/nature, and that reorient us towards sustainment, maintenance and care for each other and for the planet.

Faculty fellows will receive a $10,000 research fund for their project for FY 2022.

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Photo by Reeca Soriano

THE ART OF FUTURE IMAGINATION: CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

In alignment with the School’s ongoing commitment to Diversity & Inclusion, the Office of Faculty invites proposals for new courses that center the intersection of new technologies/art forms and underrepresented artists and perspectives (BiPOC, trans, dis/ability, neurodiversity, etc.). This special minigrant initiative seeks to expand the curriculum beyond the traditional ways of seeing "others" (racial, sexual, class, ability, etc.) in order to train students in the art of worldmaking.

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