INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL INSERTION PROJECT (CEM)

PROFESSORS: JOSÉ DE LA O / ADVISORS: EDUARDO ALTAMIRANO AND ANA ELENA MALLET

MODERNO ESPECULATIVO

This is a speculative critical design project which seeks to explore the concept of Mexicanness in times of modernity within the country. The main intention is to project different parallel modernities that would have developed according to each period in time investigated and the impact that these would have had on the legacy of Mexican design. Thus ending, in the generation of criticism and material interpretation of each one of them.

What if…?. 

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PROTOMAXIMALISMO

Karina Pérez

In the '60s, a new abstraction of the prehispanic esthetic arose, named Protominimalism, a concept defined by Josef Albers. An information leaking occurred during the process, resulting in a vain tribute to the dead indigen. There was an intensive but superficial creative process; therefore, I pushed it into its maximal expression as a form of critique, where the quantity of the information matters. A collection of five gradient objects, where I started from the original condition and took them to a ridiculous Protomaximalism.

ACTIVISTA MODERNO

Samantha Sarmiento

Fashion plays an important role in social movements. This project takes us to the scenario of a modern Mexico where fashion design contributes to the protection of people, mainly activists, who expressed dissent against the repression and injustices of the time, such as those who participated in the student movement of 1968.

LO MEXICANO NO CABE EN LA MODERNIDAD

Sandra Luz Pérez del Ángel

This project explores how modernism would have looked if it had been generated thinking about the qualities and taste of the Mexican who emigrated from the countryside to the city in the 1950s. It also shows functional spaces and objects that respond to this cumulative baroque aesthetic needs, to avoid lagging development and create the middle ground between modernism and Jaibo culture.

OBMICE

Diego Camacho Ordaz

This project is based on the symbiotic relationship that existed between the native and the modern missionary (foreigner), which was unbalanced until the loss of the Mexican essence, resulting in the creation of an unfairly appropriate identity by the groups of power, and causing fall back in the population.

This para-reality explores a scenario where Mexico decides to create the Mexican Bureaucratic Organization for Equitable Knowledge Exchange, in charge of formalizing the activity of the modern missionary and putting it on the same level as the Mexicans.