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Panelist, “AI for Public Good: Shaping Latin America and the Caribbean’s Social Contract,” OECD Virtual Seminar
Recognizing AI’s dual nature as both an opportunity and a challenge, the Permanent Mission to the OECD and the OECD Development Centre propose a webinar to foster dialogue between academia and policymakers on the specific role that AI can play in strengthening the social contract in Latin America. The event will explore how AI can…
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New Article in Tapuya: “Knowledge and Ignorance in Forensic Identification: The Origins of a Contested Human Rights Fact”
Medina, Eden. (2024). Knowledge and ignorance in forensic identification: the origins of a contested human rights fact. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2370694
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries Now Available in Polish
Happy to announce that Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile has been translated into Polish and is now available from Heterodox Publishing House.
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives names Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America (MIT Press) as recommended reading for Hispanic Heritage Month
Many thanks to the librarians and archivists of the Niels Bohr Library & Archives for encouraging others to learn about Latin American histories of science and technology.
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Lecture University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design”
From September 7th 2023, to February 28th 2024, Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso curated a major exhibition at the La Moneda Cultural Centre in Santiago de Chile titled How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design, that was followed by the publication of an eponymous book (Lars Muller: 2024). This lecture will present both the…
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Workshop at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign, “Curatorial Strategies in Design: Reconstruction as Performative Practice”
Curatorial work in design is highly interdisciplinary, and often requires bringing expertise together from fields such as architecture, history, design, engineering, and others. It may also involve reconstructing objects and spaces that do not have original examples that can be studied and copied. The main objective of this session is to generate new knowledge through…
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New Paper: People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement
Sarah Williams, Sara Beery, Christopher Conley, Michael Lawrence Evans, Santiago Garces, Eric Gordon, Nigel Jacob, and Eden Medina. 2024. “People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September.
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Book chapter excerpt published in KoozArch
The magazine KoozArch published an edited excerpt of my book chapter on the design of the Cybersyn Operations Room. The full chapter appears the book How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024) that I co-edited with Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Ignacio Alonso.
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New article in Technology & Culture: “Seeds, Dams, and Khipus: Latin America’s Eclectic Recent History of Technology”
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Diego Cerna-Aragon, and Eden Medina, "Seeds, Dams, and Khipus: Latin America's Eclectic History of Technology," Technology and Culture 65, no. 2 (2024): 447-472.