Associate Professor, Visualizing Futures/Worldbuilding - ASU at Mesa City Center
Company: The Society for Social Studies of Science
Location: Mesa
Posted on: June 25, 2022
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Job Description:
Associate Professor, Visualizing Futures/Worldbuilding - ASU at
Mesa City Center College of Global Futures and the Herberger
Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University The
School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) and the School for the
Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS ) at Arizona State University
seek a diverse pool of dynamic thinkers and creators for a joint,
full-time, tenure-eligible associate professor appointment focused
on visualizing futures and worldbuilding, which will play a central
role in the ASU at Mesa City Center emerging media technologies
center opening in fall 2022. This position will have a leadership
role in the development and running of the MS in Futures and
Design, a cross-disciplinary degree program focused on leveraging
emerging/XR technologies and practices to imagine, analyze and
create discourse/engagement around futures scenarios and alternate
realities. This position will begin Fall 2022. About ASU Arizona
State University is a new model for American higher education, an
unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial
energy and broad access. This New American University is a single,
unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses
positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and
environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is
inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that
traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than
80,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's
fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural
diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more
than one hundred nations across the globe. About the Herberger
Institute for Design and the Arts Arizona State University's
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is the largest
comprehensive design and arts school in the country, located within
a dynamic research university focused on transformative change.
Built on a unique combination of disciplines, the Herberger
Institute comprises the Schools of Art; Arts, Media and
Engineering; Music, Dance and Theatre; The Design School; The
Sidney Poitier New American Film School, and the ASU Art Museum.
The Herberger Institute is committed to redefining the 21st-century
design and arts school through developing and scaling ideas that
strengthen the role of designers and artists across all areas of
society and culture, increasing the capacity of artists to make a
difference in their communities. For more information on the
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, visit
herbergerinstitute.asu.edu . About the School of Arts, Media and
Engineering The School of Arts, Media and Engineering in the
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State
University offers a dynamic, cross-campus, student-customizable
curriculum that prepares students with tangible skills in new
media, AI, games, wearable technology and more. We believe the
liberal arts degree for the 21st century needs to create citizens
who are conversant with hard skills in emerging technology as well
as with the soft skills that employers increasingly demand. The
School of Arts, Media and Engineering trains students to be
socially aware, critically thinking global citizens who strive to
bring about positive change, in a society that will be increasingly
shaped by incoming revolutions in emerging and new technologies.
For more information on the School of Arts, Media and Engineering,
visit artsmediaengineering.asu.edu . About the School for the
Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) SFIS is a transdisciplinary
unit at the vanguard of ASU's commitment to linking innovation to
public value. SFIS faculty backgrounds span the natural sciences
and engineering, as well as the social sciences and humanities.
SFIS provides a unique ecosystem for scholarship, education, and
engagement, with current faculty research areas including, but far
from limited to, environmental and energy justice, reproductive
justice and biopolitics, technology at borders, peace engineering,
data ethics, public interest technology, activism and social
movements, and decolonizing space governance. More broadly, the
community of SFIS shares a vision of socially responsive and
responsible innovation. Collaborative opportunities exist with the
Washington, DC-based Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
(CSPO; www.cspo.org) - consistently ranked one of the top science
and technology policy think tanks in the world. Situated alongside
the School of Sustainability and the new School of Complex Adaptive
Systems within the newly created College of Global Futures (CGF;
collegeofglobalfutures.asu.edu) and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global
Futures Laboratory (GFL; globalfutures.asu.edu), SFIS provides a
supportive environment within which to develop, grow, and implement
a truly transformative scholarly enterprise. Since its creation in
2015, SFIS has maintained that "the future is for everyone." Part
of implementing this ethic is creating a diverse faculty that
represents both the diversity of interests and issues that humanity
faces in its increasingly complex future, and the diversity of
students and communities we serve. About ASU at Mesa City Center
Arizona State University has joined forces with one of the nation's
fastest growing cities to build a digital innovation center in
Mesa. ASU at Mesa City Center will open doors for students in
emerging industries while helping transform Mesa's downtown area
into a bustling innovation district. Once fully developed, this
118,000 square-foot space will leverage its soundstages, audio
laboratories, immersive laboratories, screening theaters,
fabrication labs and design studios to encourage collaborations
aimed at solving problems today and in the future-from visualizing
new systems of urban transportation to testing new designs for
hospital rooms. This world-class media production site will host
hundreds of students making films, video games and other immersive
media, as well as extended reality experiences of all kinds. Our
inclusive programming will train some of the best storytellers and
media entrepreneurs in the world, and the facility will also be an
open and inviting place for the public as well as a source of
inspiration, entertainment and education. The primary
responsibilities for this jointly appointed position will be
developing and running the MS in Futures and Design and teaching in
and collaborating with the other programs of ASU at Mesa City
Center; these make up a cross-disciplinary trio of graduate
programs bringing together researchers, designers and engineers to
leverage XR technologies and practices for public impact. In
addition to leading the MS in Futures and Design program, the
successful candidate will be expected to develop an independently
funded and collaborative research program; teach and mentor
students; participate in professional and university service;
engage stakeholders in the university and the community, and
demonstrate national and international leadership in their field.
ASU at Mesa City Center serves a community and a university that
represent a broad range of racial, cultural, and other forms of
diversity. We enthusiastically welcome applications from
individuals of all races, cultures, nations of origin, abilities,
and gender identities. Required Qualifications: Candidates for this
position must have:
Keywords: The Society for Social Studies of Science, Mesa , Associate Professor, Visualizing Futures/Worldbuilding - ASU at Mesa City Center, Education / Teaching , Mesa, Arizona
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