The key concepts of the model has been one that has been alluded to over time, yet has been most notably connected with John Friedmann, concerning spatial organization of regional development in the distribution of economic goods and resources related to industrialism as we know it today. The model proposes the unequal levels of development in the world economy contrasting the colonial global north (the core) and the colonized global south (the periphery). In terms of Latin American design it’s been highly referential in groundbreaking theorists as a critique of the negative socio-economic and political views concerning Latin America. The use of the model by Latin American design theorists such as Gui Bonsiepe and Tomas Maldonado was meant to conducively prod academics to think more abstractly rather than comparatively when looking at Latin American design. While seemingly positive, Lucila Fernandez Uriarte critiques this application in her 2005 article “Postmodernity and Modernity in Cuba” by positing that the influences of development within the periphery is reductive to say that the diachronic western conceptions of industrialization is to blame. Furthermore, Fernandez Uriarte argues here that interpretations of material culture, i.e. the tobacco and sugar industry of Cuba, affects the perception of industrialism’s theories of modernity and postmodernity within the global south. Thus, she urgently calls for more investigation into other nuanced dynamic influences at play as opposed to merely economic regional development of industrial design.