Abierto de Diseño CDMX

The ninth edition of Abierto de Diseño CDMX has arrived.

Abierto de Diseño CDMX celebrates the diversity of design in Mexico and around the world, bringing it closer to all kinds of audiences in an international gathering that transforms Mexico City into an open-air design laboratory.

Over eight consecutive editions, Abierto has established itself as a benchmark in Latin America, transforming the city center into a stage open to creative thought, interdisciplinary dialogue, and the public exhibition of democratic, collaborative, intergenerational, accessible, and local design.

Museums, cultural institutions, and pavilions will host exhibitions, workshops, and installations that connect knowledge, disciplines, and audiences in a shared setting that, for ten days, will become a space for imagining and constructing new ways of being together.

The theme of the 2025 edition—MALEZA. Design in Resistance—was brought to life by Taina Campos and Andrea Soler of Diseña Colectiva, and Mara Soler and Daniela Villanueva of Las Flaminguettes.

Maleza is life that insists, that grows through concrete, defies order, and transforms the landscape without asking permission. With this image as a starting point, Abierto celebrates designs that are born at the margins: projects that emerge from the peripheries, thrive in adversity, and sustain the everyday.

In a world marked by ecological and social urgencies, “Design in Resistance” is not only a theme—it is a way of designing, inhabiting, imagining, and creating. This edition is a meeting ground between territories, disciplines, and realities, where graphic, spatial, utilitarian, experimental, artisanal, digital, collective, speculative, and intimate practices all have a place.

The Abierto de Diseño CDMX program unfolds across multiple venues in Bosque de Chapultepec that will host thematic pavilions:

• At the Centro de Cultura Digital: the Academic Pavilion, showcasing projects from design schools that explore failures, prototypes, and pedagogical processes on themes such as gender, care, and mental health; and the Furniture and Object Pavilion, featuring pieces born from desire, need, or care, privileging regenerative materials and personal narratives.
• At Lago Algo: the Novedades Pavilion, presenting recent projects marked by social urgency, community sensitivity, or experimental use of materials.
• At Papalote Museo del Niño: an island of the central exhibition with outdoor activities and content focused on the everyday, the unfinished, and the resilient.
• At Cineteca Nacional Chapultepec: the Architecture Pavilion, with habitable or speculative proposals, along with a film series on design for diverse audiences.
• At Museo Tamayo: interventions that form part of the Public Space Pavilion.
• At Casa del Lago: actions open to interdisciplinary thinking, in dialogue with the forest and its temporalities.

In addition, all venues will feature islands of the festival’s central exhibition, weaving together the different pavilions with a critical narrative about design as resistance: a force that sprouts from the margins, connects disciplines, and sustains the common.

Design, too, can be like maleza: sprouting where it is not expected, unsettling what is established, and sustaining what is invisible.

–Abierto de Diseño CDMX

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