Belief in the Potential Object: Ernesto Oroza on Technological Disobedience in Cuba

Belief in the Potential Object: Ernesto Oroza on Technological Disobedience in Cuba

“Ernesto Oroza works and thinks through the potentials of what he calls the “vernacular production” of the periodo especial in Cuba—design works compelled by an extended economic depression following the collapse of the country’s Soviet Union–linked economy in the late 1980s. Having both been trained and taught in Havana’s schools of design, Oroza has also led […]

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Carne viva (notas sobre el adentro)

Carne viva (notas sobre el adentro)

Carne viva (notas sobre el adentro) Ernesto Oroza Dentro de la revolución todo, contra la revolución nada. La exigencia que Fidel Castro hizo a los intelectuales cubanos en 1961, puede considerarse el programa de su obra arquitectónica: un edificio con solo un plano de expresión, y éste es interior. La perspectiva que Fidel avizoró era un […]

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O maleável discurso do design e seu uso num mundo multíplice. Por Fernanda Fortes

O maleável discurso do design e seu uso num mundo multíplice. Por Fernanda Fortes

http://www.revistacardamomo.com/o-maleavel-discurso-do-design-e-seu-uso-num-mundo-multiplice/ download pdf here TwitterTumblrFacebookemailPinterestPrint

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Cuban invention online – Uploaded by El Toque

Cuban invention online – Uploaded by El Toque

El plástico es mi oro https://eltoque.com/texto/el-plastico-es-mi-oro Un “imperio” del plástico se funde en Santa Clara https://eltoque.com/texto/un-imperio-del-plastico-se-funde-en-santa-clara TwitterTumblrFacebookemailPinterestPrint

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ALEX GIL: Interview with Ernesto Oroza

ALEX GIL: Interview with Ernesto Oroza

Interview with Ernesto Oroza. By Alex Gil (from Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. University of Minnesota Press.) The possibility of full and equal participation in the digital humanities has become the focus of much recent discussion around the diversity, definition, and scope of the field. Many of those who feel left out argue that a lack […]

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son o no son

son o no son

“Qué están esperando de nosotros? De dónde sacan nuestros países mujeres altas, bien alimentadas, del mismo tamaño,… además señores, capaces todas de levantar la pierna al mismo tiempo!, en realidad se nos exige demasiado.” Julio García Espinosa, SON O NO SON, 1978 (cómo hacer un espectáculo musical para el turismo internacional) TwitterTumblrFacebookemailPinterestPrint

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Espiral espirada (reused)

Espiral espirada (reused)

Espiral espirada 1 (reused) fragment from “Notes Penetrated by a Spiral”, E. Oroza, 2016. As the Spanish captain circled the rock, he was jumped by a native in a dizzying movement. The conquistador caught on when he saw the three lightning bolts of pink mother of pearl that slashed the flesh on his face, the skin of […]

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Homemade car lights

Homemade car lights

This homemade production of diffusers for car lights, is addresed to models so different as Chevrolets 56′ and Soviet Ladas 1600. Diffusers lenses are manufactured of epoxy resin. To recover the original image from the lights of the cars, the designs are molded from original diffusers and its lenticular surfaces. However, many of the designs […]

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(Portuguese) Brasília Teimosa, periferia de Havana por LAÉRCIO PORTELA

(Portuguese) Brasília Teimosa, periferia de Havana por LAÉRCIO PORTELA

Para desconstruir a crítica, Oroza estudou a fundo a relação da escassez com a produção de objetos pelos cubanos e construiu o conceito-chave do seu trabalho: desobediência tecnológica. “De tanto abrir corpos o cirurgião insensibiliza-se com a estética da ferida, com o sangue e com a morte…

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Filme de ficção científica com estética pós-apocalíptica é produzido no Recife

Filme de ficção científica com estética pós-apocalíptica é produzido no Recife

Filme de ficção científica com estética pós-apocalíptica é produzido no Recife
CO44 retrata o futuro da Terra com efeitos especiais de animação
CO44 é o título do curta de ficção científica que o cineasta Bruno Cabús começou a dirigir há duas semanas no Recife,…

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Worker build your own machinery - Workshop

Worker build your own machinery – Workshop

Obrero construye tu maquinaria / Worker build your machinery – workshop by Ernesto Oroza, Valentina Rognoli, Marinella Levi and +LAB Taken at Politecnico milano aule CT https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277326650_Worker_build_your_own_machinery_A_workshop_to_practice_the_Technological_Disobedience Videos and images here: http://architectureofnecessity.com/obrero-construye-tu-maquinaria/ TwitterTumblrFacebookemailPinterestPrint

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Book: Con nuestros propios esfuerzos (Verde Olivo, Cuba, 1992)

Book: Con nuestros propios esfuerzos (Verde Olivo, Cuba, 1992)

Cover and selections of pages from the book Con nuestros propios esfuerzos (With Our Own Efforts). Editora Verde Olivo, Cuba, 1992. Download a complete pdf here: https://we.riseup.net/assets/198729/Con-Nuestros-Propios-Esfuerzos.pdf TwitterTumblrFacebookemailPinterestPrint

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Revolico cars_archive_2

Revolico cars_archive_2

Motor Fiat Fiorino caja de Lada diferencial y dirección de Willy Capacidad para 36 niños o 20 adultos WILLYS PISICORRE 55 / SANTIAGO DE CUBA Precio: 27,000 cuc Fecha: Lunes, 25 de Abril del 2016, 05:16 AM SE VENDE WILLYS PISICORRE 55 / /SANTIAGO DE CUBA 27000 CUC (PRECIO NEGOCIABLE) MOTOR MERCEDES DE 4 CILINDROS […]

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Accumulation and raw materials (fragments)

Accumulation and raw materials (fragments)

To accumulate is to foresee our anticipated needs and to respond in advance. Accumulation is not storage, but the collection of ideas of use, of constructive solutions, of technical systems and archetypes that flourish during a crisis. By accumulating, we create a mental map of what is stockpiled, an echo of the potential of each object or saved fragment. Accumulation proposes […]

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Car "60 percent"

Car “60 percent”

“Carro pequeño y económico con mecánica de Lada (motor, caja, diferencial) y dirección de Moskvich (La mejor). Las gomas, el carburador, la dirección, la bomba de freno y otros agregados están nuevos y está muy bueno de mecánica y chapistería. Recién pintado y con Certifico en mano. Es descapotable, de 2 puertas y con capacidad […]

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Revolico cars_archive_1

Revolico cars_archive_1

GANGA Polaco con mecánica de SEAT en buen estado. Precio: 7,500 cuc Fecha:Domingo, 24 de Abril del 2016, 09:54 PM No me ajusto, sin rebaja. Chapistería en buen estado y buena pintura, con butacas modernas y música. Salón en excelente estado con butacas modernas. Le funcionan todas las pizarras y electricidad ok. Gomas nuevas, las cinco. […]

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"60 percent" cars

”60 percent” cars

Some years ago the Cuban government issued a regulation that allows to circulate rebuilt cars that have suffered severe crash, corrosion or were neglected. In the past, when a car stopped been used, for the above reason, it was impossible to incorporate them legally. The current law now allows re-registering cars if it retains up to […]

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Technological Disobedience: From the Revolution to Revolico.com

Technological Disobedience: From the Revolution to Revolico.com

Revolution “Worker, build your own machinery!”: this was the appeal that Ernesto Guevara—Minister of Industries from 1961 to 1966—directed to the participants of the Primera Reunión Nacional de Producción [First National Production Meeting] in August 1961. This event was the first ideological initiative of the national movement of Cuban innovators and inventors, who had begun organizing […]

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