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Latin American Technocultural Worlds: Histories of Design, Aesthetics, and Practice challenges our understanding of the technological lives of Latin Americans by recentering scholarly inquiry affirming that technological innovation, craftsmanship, design, and adaptation have been a constant of everyday life in Latin America. It foregrounds questions about what is considered technology, who creates it, and how it shapes lives and spaces pushing the field in meaningful directions to engage more deeply with the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. This project, including an edited volume, podcasts, and an interactive website, not only recenters the conversation, but its interdisciplinary nature challenges us to reimagine and cross-fertilize theoretical frameworks, and methodologies, and to take advantage of the tools offered by digital humanities.