Our friends from Parti Collective have organized a gathering in Brussels. Since many of them are old friends, and some also participated in the Science Fiction Economics Residency, they decided to invite us to touch base and think about where we could go next with the Lab.
Might as well broaden the circle to people interested in the nexus between science fiction and economics. This is not an open event, but if you would like to participate get in touch with me, I am sure we can make it happen. We are also planning a social event on the 21st.
EDIT. We have decided to use the event to get everyone in the room on more or less the same page. This means an introductory lecture, given by yours truly, plus discussion on what that means for the current interests of Parti Collective around green-and-communal living. The lecture is gong to be based on this:
Hi there @alberto, I wonāt be able to attend in person, but please share the ideas in the draft proposals that @ADH and I put together. Iāll post those here when I get to another computer. Thereās also lots of interest at ASUās Center for Science and the Imagination to address these topics, and they have other good ideas, such as podcasts and presence at writing conventions. Happy to talk before the Parti meeting if you want more info.
To start, I still feel we need a curriculum of sorts, starting with your value-compatible incentives discussion, and maybe the Choose your Own Adventure Economics framework. Iām working up a paper that combines these, should be able to share next week for critiques.
I love them, especially the experiments. The idea of generating counterfactuals via speculative fiction is still a bit raw, but very intriguing. Depending on the intended readership (here you seem to be writing for your own head of department), it may be worth it to disambiguate the word āexperimentsā, which, in economics, means something completely different from what you have in mind here.
The person to ask would be @lucacominassi. In the Sci-Fi Econ part of the gathering, I gave the new version of the Space Economy Camp lecture, and we discussed briefly the follow-ups, including the events you yourself are organizing. @Katebee and @nadia have been discussing making the Sci-Fi Econ Lab a membership organization supported by corporate members. Maybe you are interested in that discussion too?
Here is a write-up on the Parti Collective gathering, which featured Sci-Fi Economics Lab and in particular @alberto who gave the incredibly inspirational lecture outlined above - i.e. designer economies. We had numerous policy makers and members of European parties in attendance and the feedback was it succeeded in providing that āwake-up-callā moment when people are invited to think that things could be markedly different than they are now.
In regards to an update on where @nadia and I have gotten to. Weāve been thinking about how to expand the potential of the SFEL and get more exposure to the main mission. So far this has involved brainstorming on different ways to get more people to experience residencies/labs/events as well as producing many forms of other content. Weāve also looked at some measurable impacts/outputs. And done a lot of business modelling in service of being able to make these ideas happen.
I would be keen to get your perspective on where weāre arrived @zazizoma as Iām carrying out a bunch of interviews of a. āstewardsā (i.e. people who been involved for a while) and āpotential users/customersā (i.e. people who might use, fund, or pay for some of the services or outputs of the Lab). Can we set up a call?
