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http://assemblepapers.com.au/2017/04/28/technological-disobedience-ernesto-oroza/ Illustrations by Alice Oehr for Assemble Papers

https://www.cubanet.org/mas-noticias/el-ingenio-de-un-cubano-made-in-jaguey-grande/

http://www.diariodecuba.com/cuba/1471208138_24595.html

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

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La Cuchufleta – Alternative Power Generating in Cuba Power generating in Cuba – La Cuchufleta rudimentary system to remedy the shortcomings of the so-called Cuban Revolution

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Floating Cubans, web project by Andrew Ho

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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 […]

“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)

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 […]

Photographic documentation in Recife: 39 photos

Technological Disobedience

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Archive Objets réinventés: http://www.technologicaldisobedience.com/category/objets-reinventes/

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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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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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Hágalo usted mismo! Reparaciones menores. Editorial Pablo de la Torriente, 1997.

double pages from Juventud Técnica – Year 2 – No.5, November 1966, Cuba.

Electric generator

Engine from soviet washing machine Aurika

via: Liber Ponce

Source: Juventud Técnica N.385. Casa Editora Abril, Cuba.

Source: Juventud Técnica N. 386. Casa Editora Abril, Cuba.

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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,…

Mod Off: An Archive of Modified Objects by Amy Marjoram and Yvette King. Co-curators of Mod Off. https://modoff.wordpress.com/category/transport/ Error: Embedded data could not be displayed./

Fences made out with several discarded materials.

78 versions of Harry Bertoia’s chair Model No. 420C, found in Aguacate, Cuba. Oct/2006. Other versions. Source webpage Arquitectura Cuba

HECHIZO on Vimeo. More info about Trabajos de Utilidad Pública (TUP) here: https://tupblog.wordpress.com

Rafael Zimmerman, designer and “rikimbili” creator, produced the sound of different engines used in rikimbilis. Some “rikimbilis” created by Zimmerman:

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/

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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

Cover and selection of pages from El libro de la familia. Editora Verde Olivo, Cuba, 1991

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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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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 […]

“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 […]

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. […]

Bench made out of two doors from a soviet car Lada and metal bars. Photo by Liber Ponce, Habana, 2016.

More photos here:  Créations cubaines

El ingenio cubano a través de la desobediencia tecnológica

For an imperfect cinema by Julio Garcia Espinosa (1926-2016): http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html

via Diseño del sur: http://monoskop.org/images/c/c8/Papanek_Victor_Disenar_para_el_mundo_real.pdf

Electric switch. Vibora, Habana, 2015

In certain contemporary urban areas the necessity generates objects that look more… +26 photos

Architecture of Necessity, Arquitectura de la Necesidad, Moral Modulor, Updating City, Potential House, Objects of Necessity, Objetos de Necesidad, Ernesto Oroza Source: Architecture of Necessity – by Ernesto Oroza

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 […]

Coming soon pictures and stories from the Book Objets Reinventes by Penelope De Bozzi y Ernesto Oroza (Paris, 2002)

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 […]

Spare parts: 40 photos

Spare parts home-made production: 80 photos

article> PRIMAVERA HACKER 2015 DESOBEDIENCIA TECNOLOGICA http://primaverahacker.cl Primavera Hacker es una instancia de diálogo en torno a las relaciones entre tecnología, política y prácticas creativas que busca desarrollar una mirada disidente de la lógica económica dominante. Concebimos la tecnología no como un objeto neutro sino como uno que está atravesado en su diseño, desarrollo y […]

Antenas vernáculas concebidas para decodificar y “robar” la señal de la emisora estatal de radio “para Centros de Gastronomía y Comercio de Ciudad de la Habana”. Los creadores de estas antenas las ocultaban en cajas pequeñas de plástico y mas comúnmente en el interior de autos de juguete. Esa es la razón por la cual […]