Meet the Imaginauts: Our Community of Supporters

We are deeply grateful to our beloved community of Imaginauts: our fellow explorers of imagination whose partnership inspires our imaginations and makes what we do possible.


Join us today and be a part of expanding the limits of the possible by going beyond them, into the impossible.

Donors

Founders’ Orbit

$100,000

Susan & Steve Hart, Ambassador Diana Lady Dougan, Ed Horowitz, Ten to the Ninth Plus Foundation.

Imaginaut’s Launch Pad

$10,000 and up

Paul Jacobs, Jim and Christina Grote, Claudia Welss, Eric Redemann, Julie Potiker, Fred Ordway, James B Ax Family Foundation, Dankberg Family Foundation, Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation, Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.

Friends of the Clarke Center

$1,000 and up

Jeannie Anderson, California Humanities, Cyon Research Corp., Brian Hays, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Mort Shaevitz

We recognize and thank our valued supporters including ViaSat Inc. as the Center's Founding Partner!

Engaging, interested individuals and organizations with a breadth of experience and interactions with society, industry, education and government is crucial to the success of the Center. 

 

ViaSat Inc. was the Founding Partner of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Their partnership supported the Clarke Center’s operations and Imagination research and established the Clarke Center Endowment. 

Let's Imagine Together!

Practitioners of the emergent field of Speculative Futures Studies use speculative forms – including, but not limited to, art, literature, and theory- to confront the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, and racism in order to imagine and enact more sustainable and just futures.

Science explains it, but
art may be the key to finding it.

The Speculative Futures Collective seeks to cultivate research with faculty, graduate students, and community members using speculative cultural forms and theories to collaborate on the future of education, ecology, gender, sexuality, and race.

Practitioners of the emergent field of Speculative Futures Studies use speculative forms – including, but not limited to, art, literature, and theory- to confront the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, and racism in order to imagine and enact more sustainable and just futures.

Science explains it, but
art may be the key to finding it.

The Speculative Futures Collective seeks to cultivate research with faculty, graduate students, and community members using speculative cultural forms and theories to collaborate on the future of education, ecology, gender, sexuality, and race.

Unlike intelligence, memory, and creativity, there is an alarming lack of coherent theory and a thin empirical literature on imagination. Why alarming? Imagination may be one of the most important keys to human flourishing and human progress, with spiritual and evolutionary adaptive benefit.

The science of imagination needs a guide for the future.

The Atlas of Imagination is the guide, focusing coherent theoretical models of imagination to drive further investigation and the tools needed for the empirical study of the neurodiversity of imagination. 

Unlike intelligence, memory, and creativity, there is an alarming lack of coherent theory and a thin empirical literature on imagination. Why alarming? Imagination may be one of the most important keys to human flourishing and human progress, with spiritual and evolutionary adaptive benefit.

The science of imagination needs
a guide for the future.

The Atlas of Imagination is the guide, focusing coherent theoretical models of imagination to drive further investigation and the tools needed for the empirical study of the neurodiversity of imagination. 

The Clarke Center is a research-and-practice hub, where the best insights from the neuroscience of imagination are connected with the latest in technology and put to use to unlock the transformative power of imagination across age groups, and communities to tackle the most pressing issues facing the planet.

Imagination discovers
new possibilities within the impossible.

Imagination is at the root of empathy and compassion. Imagination gives rise to hope. We aim to unleash the power of imagination to tackle the most pressing issues facing life on Earth – to envision and build a more equitable an sustainable world.