El último número del reconocido journal estadounidense Technology and Culture publicó una reseña sobre el libro How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design, editado por Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina y Pedro Alonso, publicado por la editorial suiza Lars Müller Publishers en 2024. Este libro, con distribución global, 336 páginas y 403 imágenes, trata sobre la exposición homónima realizada en el Centro Cultural La Moneda en 2023-2024 y que durante 2025 se presenta en Disseny Hub Barcelona. La reseña en Technology and Culture, realizada por Amarí Peliowski, comenta en algunos de sus párrafos lo siguiente:
“With contributions from both local and international researchers, the book skillfully balances accessibility for global readers unfamiliar with Chilean history and fresh, in-depth insights into lesser-known processes in Chile. The thematic scope of the articles compiled in the book is diverse and engaging. Some chapters provide broader context to the period, while others adopt a microhistorical lens to examine various specific design projects and their political significance—from small-scale items, such as spoons for measuring powdered milk, to the pioneering yet unfinished Synco room project, an architectural and electromechanical artifact intended to manage the national economy.”
“Closely aligned with design history, the book shares key concerns with the historiography of science and technology, particularly a critical stance toward center-periphery models in the understanding of global knowledge and production, a sensibility to the material and visual dimensions of these processes, and a refreshing critical engagement with evolving class and gender dynamics.”
“While local research has primarily focused on the role of science and technology in the construction of the nation-state in the nineteenth century and on the implementation of developmentalism in the early twentieth century, more recent episodes—such as those explored in How to Design a Revolution—remain less frequently studied. This adds both value and a sense of exceptionality to this volume. In light of all these attributes, How to Design a Revolution, both as a visual artifact and a work of scholarship, is essential reading for a broad audience interested in the intersections of design, technology, and politics.”
En abril de 2024 la misma revista publicó un positivo artículo sobre las implicancias de la exposición y de la reconstrucción de la sala de operaciones de Cybersyn, considerada en dicha reseña “una de las piezas de tecnología más reconocibles a nivel mundial diseñada en el Sur Global” (José Ragas “How to Design a (Cybernetic) Revolution: Chileans Remember Salvador Allende’s Techno-Utopian Project”).
Technology and Culture es la principal revista internacional sobre historia de la tecnología. La revista fue fundada en 1959, es la publicación oficial de The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) y es publicada por Johns Hopkins University Press. Esta se enfoca en el estudio académico sobre la historia de la tecnología y sus relaciones con la sociedad y la cultura desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria.