This seminar explores the histories of materials, design, and craft in twentieth-century Latin America. Focusing on topics such as sovereignty, identity, resistance, and situatedness, we will revisit significant moments in the region's political, economic, and social history. The course explores these themes within a decolonial interpretative framework, considering the influential political and cultural transhemispheric interactions between Latin America and global powers throughout the century. Case studies include the politics of banana production in Central America, changes and persistence in Andean textiles, the acculturation of the washing machine in Colombia, innovations and appropriations in Brazilian furniture design, and technological disobedience in Cuba, among others.