 The Collegium's Hub is the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts (CAiiA), and it has had nodes in Zurich, Milan, Lucerne, Trento, Kefalonia, and currently in Shanghai.The founding President is Professor Roy Ascott.The Planetary Collegium was conceived and established by Roy Ascott as the "Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts" (CAiiA) in 1994 at what is now the University of Wales, Newport 

Three years later, Ascott established STAR (Science Technology and Art Research) in the School of Computing, University of Plymouth.