Cubas DIY Inventions from 30 Years of Isolation

In 1991, Cuba s economy began to implode. The Special Period in the Time of Peace was the government s euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankensteinlike machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would lat