Cynthia Selin
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  • Research
    • Climate Design
    • Energizing Futures
    • Oxford Futures Forum >
      • Future Things Exhibition
    • Futurescape City Tours >
      • Finding Futures
    • Serious Play: Social and Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology
    • Emerge >
      • Making Sense of Emerge
      • Redesigning the Future Exhibition
    • Plausibility Project
    • Solar to Fuels
    • National Citizens Technology Forum
    • City of Phoenix
  • Writing
  • Consulting
  • Bio
Emerge: A Festival of Futures  Annual transmedia art, science and technology festival designed to creatively explore our changing future.  

Sensors &  Humans in Networking Environments [SHINE] Research initiative focused on the social and political dimensions of the internet of things.

A Year Without a Winter Curatorial research to spark interdisciplinary collaborations at the intersection of foresight, art and climate.

Planetary Design: Climate 3.0 Pan university initiative to deploy design to rethink climate adaptation and investigate visions for living well in the Anthropocene.

'Energizing Futures'  Marie Curie Fellowship (Technical University of Denmark) (2014- 2015):
advances applied and theoretical research into novel foresight methods, particularly focused on scenarios mediated through cutting-edge gaming, visualization, simulation and design techniques.

Oxford Futures Forum on Design and Scenarios (2014):
dialogue between scholars and practitioners, including the making of future-oriented artefacts, performances, images and interactive experiences

Future Things (2014): exhibition co-curated with Lucy Kimbell at the Oxford Futures Forum

Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future: gathered creative thinkers and cutting edge science to ask not just 'can we' but 'should we'?

Emerge: Redesigning the Future (2012): mixed media exhibition at ASU Art Museum bringing interactive speculative fictions to public audiences


Serious Play: investigates how Lego serious play mediates cross-disciplinary collaboration and facilitates ethical reflection

Noticing 'Invisible' Innovation (2010- 2015)
Futurescape City Tours
: public engagement to sense emerging technological change in the urban landscape with an eye on sustainable futures

Finding Futures:  a pilot project by the Imaginatorium that experiments with auto-ethnography, photography and reflective writing

Sustainable Visions for a Desert City (2010-2011)
The Future of Phoenix – Crafting Sustainable Development Strategies: explores the intersection of sustainability and anticipatory governance in urban settings.

What to do about incalculable futures? (2009-2014)
Plausibility Project: seeks to better understand the meaning and significance of plausibility through questioning the ways individuals and communities know, explore, assess, and shape futures across time, cultures, and professional practices.

Real Time Assessment of Nanotechnology (2006-2016)
Anticipation and Deliberation: NSF sponsored multi-year research project that investigates the value and workings of foresight methods, with a focus on designing novel forms participatory engagement.

Solar to Fuels: what are critical emerging energy technologies, their implications for broader society, and the resource, social, environmental and political barriers to their implementation?  
  
NanoFutures:  utilizes innovative methodologies to develop, vet and present nano-enabled product scenes to a broad range of stakeholders for critique, expansion and discussion.
 
National Citizens Technology Forum: CNS-ASU citizens' outreach and research project aimed to dig deeper into people's views on nanotechnology and human enhancement.




future-oriented scholar and practitioner