Eden Medina

Professor, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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  • New Paper: People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement

    Mon, 09/23/2024

    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.

  • Promoted to Full Professor of Science, Technology, and Society

    Mon, 07/01/2024

      

  • Book chapter excerpt published in KoozArch

    Fri, 05/24/2024

    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.  

  • New article in Technology & Culture: “Seeds, Dams, and Khipus: Latin America’s Eclectic Recent History of Technology”

    Fri, 05/24/2024

    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.

  • Interviewed in New York Review of Architecture

    Wed, 05/01/2024

    I'm interviewed in the New York Review of Architecture alongside collaborators Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Ignacio Alonso. We discuss our recent exhibition and book, "How to Design a Revolution" (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024), and how those in the past foregrounded human values in design. https://nyra.nyc/articles/means-and-ends

  • Guest, “Crossing Fronteras” Podcast

    Thu, 04/25/2024

    "Eden Medina on the role of science and technology in Chile’s political history," Crossing Fronteras with co-hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar.  Eden Medina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), an historian of science and technology, addresses relationships between technology and politics in her work on Project Cybersyn, a radical computational experiment by the 1970s government of…

  • Talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

    Thu, 04/11/2024

    "How to Design a Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Project in History, Design, and Architecture," PhD Talk Series, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 4:30pm, Gropius Room.

  • Article in Creative Review

    Wed, 04/03/2024

    Creative Review published an article on my recent coedited book How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024). 

  • Knight Science Journalism Seminar

    Tue, 04/02/2024

    The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Eden Medina for a seminar on the history of revolution, technology, and design in Chile in the 1970s. April 2 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

  • Book Launch MIT Morningside Academy for Design

    Mon, 03/11/2024

    MIT Morningside Academy for Design host the launch of How to Design a Revolution, by Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024). Authors will participate in a conversation moderated by Arindam Dutta, professor in the Department of Architecture. Video Installation — March 11–28, MIT Building 9, Lobby.   Photo credit: MIT…