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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

"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…

"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.

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

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…

Columbia University’s Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the University Seminar on Latin America (USLA) invite you to the book launch of How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design (2024). Edited by Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso. Lars Müller Publishers, 2024. Date: Friday, March 8, 2024 Location: Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr, New…

TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, AND MEMORY IN CHILE: THE HISTORY OF PROJECT CYBERSYN, Faculty House, Columbia University 7:00 PM In this talk, Eden Medina, Hugo Palmarola, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso will discuss the recent exhibition they curated, How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design, that opened at the Centro Cultural La Moneda to commemorate…

HOW TO DESIGN A REVOLUTION: THE CHILEAN ROAD TO DESIGN Within the framework of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the civil-military coup in Chile, La Moneda Cultural Center, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation and Goethe-Institut…

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