script.Destroy()

script:Destroy() is a hybrid post-conference following the 2026 AAG annual conference, (Sunday March 22nd and Monday March 23rd), themed around the sub-discipline of digital geographies. The event aims to structure open and generative conversation about what digital geographies could be within and without the strictures of computation and code. script:Destroy() questions both what it means to study digital geographies, and what contributions digital geographies, as a discipline, ought to make future geographies - whether through theory, practice, technical tools, or more urgent agendas that meet the contemporary moment.

This series of conversations simultaneously builds on, and questions, prior discipline-forming milestones in digital geographies - a field which has been shaped by both productive and destructive; tangible and apocryphal events and discussions in the past. In an era in which digital and new media technologies are irrevocably embedded in our social and cultural worlds, for better and worse. Digital geographies has long made this case, asking questions about power, technology, everyday life, data and so on. But, but despite many efforts, the status quo of digital geographies has also remained a relatively minor specialty with limited intersections between other sub-disciplines beyond its origins.

One aim of this conference is to bring established, emerging, and adjacent scholars of digital geographic themes into mutual conversation, to re-evaluate - but also potentially destabilise - given assumptions and expectations in the discipline thus far. script: Destroy() is a playful gesture - a reworking of Instance: Destroy() in the world of Roblox, script: Destroy() asks us to stop running the same processes, and instead invites different outcomes, possibilities and connections. Importantly, script: Destroy() does not raze the ground behind - it waits for current processes to be executed, before initializing - cognisant of the past and present, while ready for the future.

The co-organisers - Theresa Hice-Fromille (Ohio State University); Genevieve Reid [AFIL], and Emma Fraser and Clancy Wilmott (UC Berkeley Geography) - will be working with scholars across different academic stages and disciplines, curating a series of conversations covering a range of themes. These include: histories and myths of digital geography; ethical techno-futures and imaginaries; critical approaches to community engaged research; graduate student and ECR mentorship and dreams for the discipline; interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g new media, architecture, sociology, data and computer science), and the future of the discipline considering the contemporary moment.

Please ‘save the date’ - we welcome both in person and remote attendance, and will facilitate a range of conversational modes and temporalities. We also hope to extend these conversations to future conferences, special issues, exhibitions, and other flexible methods of engagement.

Current schedule can be found here.

Supported or Sponsored By:
The Townsend Center for The Humanities
UC Berkeley Geography Dept.
Berkley Center for New Media

script:Destroy() organising committee (alphabetical order)
Emma Fraser, Assistant Professor. UC Berkeley, Geography.
Theresa Hice-Fromille, Asssistant Professor. Ohio State, Geography.
Genevieve Reid, Assistant Professor. Florida International University, Geography.
Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor. UC Berkeley, Geography.