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MADE ON EARTH

The world of backyard technology

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Mexico is crisscrossed by a vast network of abandoned railroads, no longer connecting many communities that had once relied on their freight and passenger service. In 2006, Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene, brothers and artists in Mexico City, cooked up the idea to explore the lost routes and places.

“We designed a spacecraft, a research tool that would take us on an expedition to the inner space of our country,” says Puig. Domene adds, “Its design revisits the idea of the future as ...

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