Eden Medina is an associate professor in the Program for Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a historian of science and technology. She is the author of Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (MIT Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Edelstein Prize for best book on the history of technology and the 2012 Computer History Museum Prize for best book on the history of computing. Her co-edited volume, Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America (MIT Press, 2014), received the Amsterdamska Award from the European Society for the Study of Science and Technology (2016). Her research studies the relationship between science, technology, design, and processes of political change. She holds a Ph.D. in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT and a master’s in studies of law from Yale Law School.
Pedro Ignacio Alonso holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the Architectural Association in London and heads the Ph.D. program in Architecture and Urban Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Alonso was a Princeton-Mellon Fellow at Princeton University in 2015-2016 and Resident Architect at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2019. With Hugo Palmarola, he was awarded the 2014 Silver Lion for the Chilean Pavilion Monolith Controversies at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Alonso and Palmarola published Panel (AA Publications, 2014); curated the exhibition Flying Panels: How Concrete Panels Changed the World at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in 2019–2020 in Stockholm; and published a book under the same title (Dom, 2019). Other publications include Cycles: The Architects Who Never Threw Anything Away (Circo de Ideias, 2022) with Pamela Prado; and How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design (Lars Müller, 2024), co-edited with Eden Medina and Hugo Palmarola.