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Vernacular2019
EAAD is the School of Art, Architecture, and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, the largest private university in Mexico.

For their participation as an institution at Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2019, I was invited to design and produce the scenography.

VERNACULAR is a national exhibition of Mexican vernacular design. A mapping and redesign of vernacular furniture from various neighborhoods, cities, and states across different regions of our country.

Under the guidance of mexican designer Moisés Hernández and the curation of Ana Elena Mallet, the selected projects reveal the condition of a country where precariousness is still the norm and the culture of design remains a work in progress.
 The collection explores new ways of looking at the local environment, allowing students to understand that the history of national design is also shaped by those small stories—of anonymous pieces that respond to context, needs, and local conditions.

The exhibition layout presents the furniture pieces at different heights, referencing the geographical context that varies across the country. The four “islands” represent each region involved in the project. At the center, part of the students’ research is displayed in the form of maps, drawings, photographs, and models.

Client: ITESM CCM



Eduardo Altamirano (MX, 1992) is an independent designer who graduated from Écal Master in Product Design. Since 2017 he has been actively working in the three-dimensional world under the pseudonym of en la superficie. 

For press, inquiries and commissions, please get in touch with me at: hola@enlasuperficie.com

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His practice constantly strives to combine hyper-local landscapes with the use of advanced manufacturing techniques to produce various material experiments, which often lead to industrial design pieces, limited editions, and self-initiated projects.

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Currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland