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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.
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Interviewed in New York Review of Architecture
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
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Guest, “Crossing Fronteras” Podcast
"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…
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Talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
"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.
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Article in Creative Review
Creative Review published an article on my recent coedited book How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024).
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Knight Science Journalism Seminar
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