November, 2023: Revisiting some old research with this very nice reconstruction of one of the operation rooms from project Cybersyn.

A pre-internet cybernetic system of calculating production using rooms across Chile, Cybersyn was operational only a short time before the 1973 coup.

The rooms were designed to be operated by workers from the different sectors, who were experts in their proper fields but not in computing - hence the design of buttons.

There is something both utopian and tragic about this systemic design. Imagine workers today using AI to seize the means of production. What a distant dream yet not impossible.

September, 2022: Our book The City in the Sandbox is officially going to be released!

+Wednesday the 28th of September
+At Flyverlegepladsen, Nørrebropark (Stefansgade 28-30)

Come, celebrate with us and get a book!
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A big thanks to the workers at the Staffed Playgrounds, RSS Press: Hugo Hopping and Christopher Sand-Iversen, designer Belén Pérez Campos, and for the great feedback from Kris Nilsson, Lise Grüner Bertelsen, Sune Fredskild, Gitte Juul and Lars Bang Larsen.
#Nørrebrolokaludvalg #statenskunstfond
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“As a countermove to the finance-based urban planning of our time, The City in the Sandbox reopens the discussion about the big city as a setting for childhood. Starting from the playground as a space where subjectivity and community can be created, Kristian Byskov and Margarita del Carmen analyze premises and strategies to lower the barriers between the lived and the planned urban space. It is an informed and action-oriented book about play, pedagogy, (art) activism and urban planning, which, with many views on its subject, considers how children and adults can get a little closer to living in the same world.” (Lars Bang Larsen, curator and author to the book: The Model – A Model for a Qualitative Society)

June 12, 2022: Happy to be in Trondheim for the first time where I will start a PhD in artistic research at the Academy of Art under The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Over the next three years I will explore ways of writing eco-science fiction in close relation to places. Hoping to form a social engaged practice of writing narratives in situations of ecological conflicts, extractivism and changing landscapes. Looking forward to emerge myself into new and old parts of my practice with newfound and longtime friends and colleagues, together telling other possible worlds from where we stand.
📸 @margalamaga