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The Center for Design and Geopolitics is a think-tank based at Calit2 and the University of California, San Diego devoted to using Art and Design to develop new models for how planetary-scale computation transforms political, urban and ecological systems. D:GP was founded in 2010 by Visual Arts professor, Benjamin H. Bratton .
Designing Geopolitics 2, will be the second conference event of D:GP. The event will be held June 3, 2012 at Calit2 at UCSD. The event will feature artists, designers, scientists and programmers working across disciplinary boundaries to prototype alternative infrastructures. The event is open to the public. More information
D:GP's first annual conference featured 25 speakers from 19 different disciplines. How does a digital Earth govern itself? Through what jurisdictions, what rights of the citizen-user, what capacities of enforcement, and in the name of what sovereign geographies? We need to design that geopolitics. See Conference Videos