Speculative Stages: Shaping Future Technology through Performance

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Seminar, 4 units) This course explores how stories, particularly in embodied speculative fiction, shape the way technologies are imagined, built, and used in real life. Through theory, discussion, and experimentation, it explores the interplay between fiction and reality. The course focuses both on how 20th and 21st century speculative fiction has impacted the technology that we use today and how staging new and different fictions could impact collective imaginaries and, thus, future technologies. Prerequisites: Theater C112A or Theater C112B, or permission of instructor.