Front and back cover of Improbable Events
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Interview with Benjamin Bratton
Director of UCSD Center for Design and Geopolitics
Published in the October 2011 issue of Print Magazine
(Conducted while at Metahaven)
Metahaven: What does “designing geopolitics” mean?
Benjamin Bratton: “Designing geopolitics” has several connotations, obviously. I am deeply invested in some of these, and not at all in others. For D:GP, the Center for Design and Geopolitics, which I direct at Calit2 and the University of California, San Diego, it means more than just designing on a geopolitical scale, but rather that the geopolitical domain is itself the design problem.
Area design for the park surrounding Shenfu Monument. The circle, and the circle-fractal (apollonian gasket) become organizing strategies for space and landscape.
Dialogues (2010). 12 conversations with peers, mentors and collaborators. Long form project description book.
