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Manuel Díaz Tufinio

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Fuimos detrás de bambalinas para entender cómo se creó la exposición más innovadora del momento. 🎬🌵

Platicamos con Taina Campos (curadora) @tainacampos.design y Manuel Díaz Tufinio @manusaurs detrás de “Biodiseño MX: Territorios vivos”, la primera gran exposición sobre biodiseño en México que hoy habita el ⁠Museo Franz Mayer @museofranzmayer

Una charla imperdible sobre cómo el territorio nos dota no solo de materiales, sino de una memoria viva que dialoga entre la ciencia, el arte popular y el Funga/Flora/Microbia.

No es una tendencia de laboratorio: es un saber ancestral que hoy replantea nuestro futuro.✨

¡Guarda este Reel y lánzate a descubrirla antes de que termine!

📍 Museo Franz Mayer (Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico, CDMX)

🕒 Martes a domingo, 10:00 a 17:00 h

🎟️ Boletos en taquilla o en línea.

#somoslaguiamexicana
#biodiseño #diseño #museo #franzmayer taken in Museo Franz Mayer by @manusaurs

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Biodiseño MX: Territorios Vivos. 🌿🍄🌸🐝

Casi un año y medio planeando esta exposición. Aunque en realidad se empezó a gestar mucho más tiempo atrás. Durante la maestría tuve la idea de mapear todo lo que se estaba haciendo en México en torno al biodiseño.

Este trabajo culmina el siguiente miércoles 27 de mayo. 📆

Les espero en la inauguración de Biodiseño MX: Territorios Vivos en el @museofranzmayer 📍

La primera exposición de Biodiseño en México. Para que juntes reflexionemos qué significa ser Humano en este mundo, ser Naturaleza y encontrar, junto con todas las personas que se han sumado a esta aventura, un nuevo rol en la compleja trama de la vida.

¡Que viva la vida!
¡Que viva el Biodiseño en México!

Gracias infinitas a @giovana_jaspersen por esta oportunidad y hermoso reto. ¡Y a todo el equipo de exposiciones del Franz por hacer #BiodiseñoMX posible! taken in Museo Franz Mayer by @manusaurs

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Some memories of 2025 🎢
Awesome places, people, and textures 🤙🏽 by @manusaurs

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The new Periuk Buaya iteration is ready to sprout in spring 2026 some of the crocodile seeds of the Migrant Ecologies Projects (@lucydavis.singapore)!

Magnus and Embla (@bellabambolas) will bury this seven-piece pot in the soil of Nyby Gård farm along with the dormant seeds that came from the interior of a Singaporean crocodile over 136-years-old. Periuk Buaya (‘Crocodile Pots’ in Malay) is made primarily from the rye straw stuffing from the taxidermied crocodile, wheat from the Nyby Gård, and Microfibrillated Cellulose (MFC).

Hopefully, we will soon see a crocodile meadow grow in Espoo, Finland, unearthing a decolonial story of this reptile.

#migrantecologiesproject #crocodileseeds #biomaterials #PanglimaAhChong #crocodile #finland #singapore #Nybygard #farm #design #art #research taken in Espoo, Finland by @manusaurs

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This year, once again, we have two fantastic post-screening conversations that are sure to offer you deeper insights! 🤩

🍂 WORKING IN INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES IN LATIN AMERICA: DISCUSSION WITH NATHALY PINTO AND MANUEL DÍAZ TUFINIO 🍂

🕒 26.10. at 19–19:30
📍 Caisa
🎬 After the screening of TOROBORO

Maija Repo (University of Eastern Finland) discusses with Nathaly Pinto and Manuel Díaz Tufinio on their experiences and ethical considerations of doing research with Indigenous communities in Latin America. Nathaly and Manuel will reflect on what it means to work within Anglo-European scientific contexts while collaborating with Indigenous communities, exploring what can be learned from and with plants in relation to history, culture, and the sustainment of Indigenous livelihoods. They will also discuss the possibilities and limits of art as a means of raising eco-political awareness.

🗣 Nathaly Pinto is a design researcher at Aalto University’s Department of Design (Finland) and an adjunct professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Her work builds on participatory design, using visual collective knowledge-building methods and approaches that challenge extractive research practices, especially in collaboration with Indigenous communities. She currently works with Indigenous youth and organizations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, co-designing visual devices that strengthen identity and support politicized spaces for dialogue and learning within ongoing Indigenous resistance processes.

🗣 Manuel Díaz Tufinio is a Mexican product designer with an MA in Creative Sustainability from Aalto University. He has specialised in the conceptualisation and production of objects with artisan communities. His work focuses on researching and fostering the biocultural diversity of his home country through design. by @manusaurs

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Rocks, kivet (in Finnish), and sieidis (in Sami) that caught my eye in Gibbesjárvi, and especially the new staircase installed on Saana fell. This granite staircase, part of the new trail, is made of ingots of rapakivi granite, also known as Baltic brown granite, often found in southern Finland. 🗿🪜🪨 taken in Kilpisjärvi by @manusaurs

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The mind-blowing tundra landscape of Gibbesjárvi / Kilpisjärvi! 🤯🏔️❄️🍂 🦌

Dwarf birches (Betula nana), palsa mires, Arctic cotton (Eriophorum callitrix), northern lights, snow in September, lemmings, and many amazing conversations and provocations at the “Field_Notes – Living Methodologies” programme.

Thanks to the @bioartsociety team and the @kilpisjarvibiologicalstation staff and researchers for making this happen. 🙌🏽 I’m so happy to have met and shared this with my fellow residents such a unique, brain tickle, and nurturing experience !

Many kiitos to @kipsari / @tokyo_aalto_arts for your support! 💕 taken in Kilpisjärvi by @manusaurs

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Reductio ad lermaense [3/3]

Reductio ad lermaense is a collection of three bags made from a bulrush-based biomaterial that evidences the decline of the Ciénegas de Lerma from 1870 to the present. By transforming Lerma’s hydrological cartographies in 1870, 1951, and 2025 into three-dimensional objects, their progressively smaller storage capacities serve as a metaphor for the loss of ecological function.

Each bag correspond to a specific moment in Mexico’s wetlands history. The 1870 bag references the first attempts to drain the bodies of water by the Mexican government. The 1951 bag is shaped from a map that coincided with the creation of the Lerma System. Whilst, the 2025 bag represents the current state of the Chimaliapan lagoon and capable of holding only minimal objects.

Thanks to the @aaltochemarts , I transformed Typha latifolia’s fibres into a leather-like material, opening creative possibilities for utilising raw materials considered worthless.

🙌🏽🫶🏽 Thanks again to all the artisans, experts, @aaltoarts , @eevaberglund , @anna_vanderlei , @ena.knighto and to my friends & models @niilo.tenkanen , @withlovemiina , @theklaweisskopf , @jamiedavidsmyth for all your support!

📆 The project is part of the Aalto Grad Show on view until 8 October in the Väre building, Aalto campus as part of @helsinkidesignweek

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1,2,5,6,7,8 by Anne Kinnunen

#criticaldesign #bulrush #biomaterial #biodesign #lerma #tultepec #DesignsforaCoolerPlanet #HelsinkiDesignWeek by @manusaurs

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Reductio as lermaense [2/3]

Due to the perception of Lerma’s bulrush as useless for weaving, I became interested in developing a bio-based material made from Typha latifolia to find new ways to utilise this species. After experimenting with different recipes and colour variations, I fabricated sheets of a leather-like material from bulrush fibres and seeds collected in Finland. Then, I laser-cut the pieces which I would later use to generate a collection of artefacts mapping the progressive loss of the Lerma wetlands. 🇲🇽 🌾 🇫🇮

This part of the process would not have been possible without the support of @aaltochemarts and @biofilia_aalto ! 🧪🧫🔬👨‍🔬

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Debido a la percecpión del tule de Lerma como inservible para la fabricación de artesanías, me interesó desarollar un bio based material hecho de Typha para encontrar nuevas maneras de aprovechar esta especie. Después de experimentar con diferentes recetas y variaciones de color, fabriqué pliegos de un material parecido a la piel hecho de tule colectado en Finlandia. Después corté en láser las piezas que más adelante utilizaría en generar una coleccion de artefactos que mapeen la perdida progresiva del humedal de Lerma. 🇲🇽 🌾 🇫🇮

Esta parte del proceso no hubiera sido posible sin el apoyo del @aaltochemarts y @biofilia_aalto ! 🧪🧫🔬

#biomaterials #bulrush #biobasedmaterials #typha #typhalatifolia #designresearch #chemart #lerma #biodegradable taken in Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture by @manusaurs

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Reductio ad lermaense [1/3]

The Ciénegas del Lerma, the largest wetland in Mexico’s central plateau, of which only 11% remains after 170 years of systematic anthropogenic activity. Pollution and water extraction have threatened the species that inhabit the lagoons, as well as the tradition of bulrush weaving (Schoenoplectus spp, Typha latifolia). The artisans of San Pedro Tultepec in Mexico, now consider tule (Typha latifolia) useless for weaving their crafts, as the deterioration of the ecosystem has affected the Lerma wetland plants, while the latter continues to expand, becoming an invasive species. 🌾

In this project, I delved into hydraulic maps that show the extent of the wetlands from the XIX century to the present, as well as the artisanal richness of bulrush weaving in Tultepec. 💧

Infinite thanks for @eevaberglund , @anna_vanderlei & @ena.knighto ‘s supervision, and to Drs. Mindahi Bastida, Geraldine Patrick Encina, Antonio Lot, Carmen Zepeda, @aaltoarts ,Axel Rosas V., & all the artisans who shared their knowledge. 🙌

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Las Ciénegas del Lerma, el humedal más grande del altiplano central de México, del cual solo queda el 11% tras 170 años de actividades antropogénicas sistemáticas. La contaminación y la extracción de agua han amenazado a las especies que habitan las lagunas, así como la tradición del tejido de tule (Schoenoplectus spp, Typha latifolia). Los artesanos de San Pedro Tultepec, Edo.Mex consideran ahora el tule (Typha latifolia) inútil para tejer sus artesanías, ya que el deterioro del ecosistema ha afectado a las plantas de los humedales de Lerma, mientras esta continúa expandiéndose, convirtiéndose en una especie invasora. 🌾

Ahondé en las cartografías hidráulicas que muestran la extensión de los humedales desde el siglo XIX a la fecha, así como la riqueza artesanal del tejido de tule en Tultepec. 💧

Infinitamente agradecido por la supervisión de Eeva Berglund, Anna van der Lei y Ena Naito, Drs. Mindahi Bastida, Geraldine Patrick Encina, Antonio Lot, Carmen Zepeda, Axel Rosas Villaseñor, y todos lxs artesanxs que me compartieron su conocimiento. #lerma #tule #typha #schoenoplectus #tultepec by @manusaurs

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Two years ago, @lottestinas and I embarked on a pilgrimage to visit Alvar Aalto’s works throughout Finland. So far, these are the results.

You’re the best paha piru 😈🫶🏽😈

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1-3: Paimio Sanatorium, Paimio. (1929-33)
4-5: Aalto2 Museum, Jyväskylä. (1959-61)
6: University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä. (1951-71)
7: Rovaniemi Civic Centre, Rovaniemi. (1961-88)
8-11: Muuratsalo Experimental House, Jyväskylä. (1952-1954)
12-14: Church of the Three Crosses, Imatra. (1956-58)
15: Church of the Cross, Lahti. (1969-79)
16-17: Säynätsalo Town Hall, Jyväskylä. (1949-52).
18-19: Aalto University, Espoo. (1964)

#AlvarAalto #suomi taken in Suomi, Finland by @manusaurs

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A fruity fantastic summer in South East Asia.
🍌🍊🍉🍇🍍🥥🥭🥝🍈🍐
Still in awe with all the flora I discovered. taken in South East Asia by @manusaurs

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