Ed Finn on Imagination


"Imagination is a collective project. We dream together. We change the world together."

Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU, where he is an associate professor, with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. A graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University (M.A. and PhD in English), Finn also serves as the academic director of Future Tense, a partnership with Slate Magazine. 

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