Ernesto Oroza

Ernesto Oroza (Havana, 1968) is an artist, designer, researcher, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Design of Havana, head of the 3rd cycle Design and Research at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Étienne, and editorial director of Azimuts. Ernesto Oroza is interested in architectures of necessity, technological disobedience, and other topics that link design and society in times of economic and political crisis. He produces and distributes speculative models and research through various publishing methods, exhibitions, collaborative practices, documentaries, and unorthodox forays into architecture, interior design, and object design. (2023)

Publications

• with Pénélope de Bozzi, Objets réinventés: la création populaire à Cuba, Paris: Alternatives, 2002, 125 pp. Author. Publisher. (French)

• No Waste, London: Pentagram Design (Pentagram Papers 32), 2003. Author.

• Rikimbili: une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention, trans. Nicole Marchand-Zanartu, Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2009, 67 pp. Author. Publisher. [1] [2] (French)

• with Maja Asaa and Mira Kongstein, Editing Havana: Stories of Popular Housing, Aristo Bogforlag, 2011, 224 pp. Author.

• with Gean Moreno, Notes sur la maison moirée. Ou un urbanisme pour des villes qui se vident, pref. Victor Lévy, Saint-Étienne: Cité du design et École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Saint-Étienne, 2013. Author. (French)

• Concrete / Concreto, 2016, 64 pp. Author. (English)/(Spanish)

Links

• Website
• Technological Disobedience Archive, research blog/virtual archive, est. 2016