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Mexico Design City

After the Design Week, Galeria Archivo is preparing for Mexico City as World Design Capital 2018 with a series of three exibitions focusing on local design.

Galeria Archivo, “MXCD 01 – Present, Past, Future”, Mexico City, 2016

Design and architecture gallery Archivo presents the first show of a series of three exhibitions focusing on the present, past and future of design in Mexico City, as the capital gears up to become World Design Capital in 2018.

The first show in the cycle, “Present – MXCD 01”, offers an instant geography of the current panorama of design in the megacity. It gathers both young and established designers, as well as artists, makers and informal creators, emphasizing the diversity and contradictions of the local creative and productive scenario. The exhibition includes a series of photographs by Melba Arellano, and an audacious exhibition design by emerging architecture office, Palma.

The series – which will extend over a two-year period of research, workshops and other activities open to the public – seeks to provoke new understandings of power and responsibility for design, in a dialogue with actors and projects that are generating a more conscious, experimental and proactive local material culture.