This module explores the relationship between raw materials and territorial policies in Latin America. It examines how natural resources like corn, bananas, and wood have shaped political, economic, and social structures in the region. The module focuses on specific case studies including corn and tortilla production, the banana industry's impact, and wood exploitation in Brazil.

Skills you'll gain

This module investigates how cultural hybridization processes manifest in Latin American material culture. It examines traditional crafts and their evolution through cultural exchanges, focusing on Andean textiles, the Black Chuspa, Afro-Brazilian material culture, and hybridized furniture styles. Students will learn to identify patterns of cultural exchange through material objects.

Skills you'll gain

This module examines how material culture relates to power dynamics, oppression, and resistance in Latin America. It covers the general context of these relationships, specifically looking at the Cuban Revolution, repair economics as resistance, political oppression expressed through material culture, and how design addresses social problems in the region.

Skills you'll gain

This module explores how Latin American production systems have developed in response to both local needs and global market demands. It examines various experiences across Latin America, the evolution of design objects, instances of technological and design failures, and analyzes the lasting legacy of 20th century production models in the region.

Skills you'll gain