Join us for an enriching workshop on October 3rd at 10 AM at 1050 Seibel Center for design.
Dive into innovative curatorial strategies and explore interdisciplinary approaches in design.
*Lunch will be provided.
"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 the original and
interdisciplinary blending of research and creation, based on innovative curatorship in design. In this workshop students will be
able to develop creative curatorial strategies for design; learn about specific cases of design curatorship in contexts with
interdisciplinary demands for local and internacional audiences; study and select historical or contemporary design products of
high significance that are absent or unavailable; propose the complete or partial reconstruction or repair of such design objects
in order to generate a speculative and performative prototype intended for display."
Presenters:
Prof. Eden Medina: is an Associate Professor in the Program for Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She authored Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (MIT Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Edelstein Prize and Computer History Museum Prize. Her co-edited volume, Beyond Imported Magic (MIT Press, 2014), received the Amsterdamska Award. Her research explores science, technology, design, and political change. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT and a master’s in law from Yale.
Prof. Hugo Palmarola: is an associate professor at the School of Design at PUC Chile. He holds a PhD in Latin American studies from UNAM Mexico and won the 2018 student essay prize from the Design History Society in the United Kingdom for his research. With Pedro Alonso, he received the 2014 Silver Lion for the Chilean Pavilion Monolith Controversies at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and they received the 2014 Deutsches Architekturmuseum Book Award for its companion book (Hatje Cantz, 2014). Palmarola and Alonso also published the book Panel (Architectural Association, 2014); curated the exhibition Flying Panels at ArkDes in Sweden (2019–20) and published a book under the same title (Dom, 2019). Together with Alonso, he has been a researcher on projects about the Pulkovo observatories and NASA satellite stations (2015–21). Palmarola obtained the MIT MISTI fund (2021–23), with Eden Medina and Pedro Alonso. Alongside them, he curated the exhibition How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design at the Centro Cultural La Moneda (2023–24); published a book under the same title (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024); and carried out the first comprehensive and functional reconstruction of the operations room of the 1973 cybernetic project Cybersyn (2023).
Prof. Pedro Ignacio Alonso: holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Architectural Association in London and leads the Ph.D. program in Architecture and Urban Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He was a Princeton-Mellon Fellow (2015-2016) and a Resident Architect at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre (2019). Alonso, with Hugo Palmarola, won the 2014 Silver Lion for the Chilean Pavilion Monolith Controversies at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Their works include Panel (2014), the Flying Panels exhibition (2019-2020), and Cycles (2022). He also co-edited How to Design a Revolution (2024) with Eden Medina and Hugo Palmarola.
