Technological Disobedience

The Cuban artist and designer Ernesto Oroza coined the expression ‘technological disobedience’ to define the practice of upcycling in the Cuban regime. In his book "Objets réinventés la création populaire à Cuba" he collected several products created by necessity and by urgency during the long trade embargo on the country. Throughout the embargo, due to the country's inability to import goods, Cubans have turned what in modern society is considered waste in parts that can be combined together to generate new artefacts.