Cybersyn in action

Can you imagine operating a cybernetic control room designed to manage a country collaboratively?

We invite you to take a seat and interact with the first functional reconstruction of the Cybersyn operations room, a pioneering management space created during President Salvador Allende’s government in Chile so that the government and workers could jointly manage the country’s economy and industries.

This experimental project, which only reached the pilot phase due to the coup d’état, was an advanced model of democratic participation and real-time management. Today, you can discover and experience it firsthand at the DHub.

Join the guided tour led by the Lumbre Migrante Collective, a group formed by migrants from the Global South, and discover how design can become a tool to transform social and economic structures while you press buttons and consult the screens in this unique operations room.

This project is part of the exhibition How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design, on view at the DHub until 16 November.