Join IONS Fellow Cassandra Vieten and colleagues at UC San Diego for Imaginarium: A one-day symposium exploring how psychedelics catalyze imagination, creative breakthroughs, and novel design solutions—at the intersection of neuroscience, creativity, and technology.
If your work depends on new ideas, this symposium is for you.
Presented by the Visionary Problem-Solving Initiative (VPSI) in collaboration with the UC San Diego Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the MINDS Foundation.
Imaginarium
A One-Day Symposium on Psychedelics, Imagination, and Creative Intelligence
In-Person and Livestream
January 17, 2026 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (PT)
Learn More on THE UC SAN DIEGO WEBSITE
Attend in-person at The Jeannie, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA or via livestream.
This event is hosted by UC San Diego. Please visit their page for more information.
Cassandra Vieten is Executive Director of the John W. Brick Foundation, Scholar-in-Residence at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego, and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she worked for 18 years in successive roles as Scientist, Director of Research, CEO, and President from 2013-2019. She is a psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, author of numerous articles in scientific journals, and an internationally recognized keynote speaker.
