Technological Disobedience
Technological Disobedience – I really like this term. Originally coined by Ernesto Oroza to describe the inventive talent of Cubans during a sad but ingeniously creative period of Cuban history.
Opening things up. Manipulating things. Turning things upside down. Using objects in ways the original creators not even dreamed of. This is the kind of spirit we should be teaching kids at our schools. Program or be programmed!
People think beyond the normal capacities of an object, and try to surpass the limitations that it imposes on itself.
― Ernesto Oroza|MotherboardTV
The accumulation of products led workers to radically question industrial processes and mechanisms. They started looking at objects not with the eyes of an engineer but those of an artisan. Every object could potentially be repaired or reused, even in a different context from its original design. Accumulation separated the object from the Western intent and lifecycle it was destined for. This is technological disobedience.
― Ernesto Oroza|mkshft.org
Sources:
- Technological Disobedience (Article on mkshft.org by Ernesto Oroza)
- The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza (Video on motherboardtv)
- Rikimbili: Une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention (Book by Ernesto Oroza)