Manuel is a designer and researcher working on intersections between history, design and botany.
He holds a M.A. in Creative Sustainability with a minor in CHEMArts from Aalto University, Finland. Manuel has worked as a designer and in R&D team at EWE Studio, txt.ure, Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura museum, and taught at CENTRO university. In 2019, he founded Tzompantle, a studio dedicated to exploring Mexico's biological diversity through research and design.
Contact
manuel[at]mmddtt.com
@manusaurs
Education
2023-2025 Aalto University. M.A. in Creative Sustainability. Otaniemi, FI
2014 University of Twente. Exchange program M.A. in Industrial Design. Enschede, NL
2011-2015 Monterrey Institute of Technology & Higher Education. Industrial Design. Mexico City, MX
Exhibitions
2025 “Tropical Lab 19: Service” @ Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, SIN.
2024 “Offerings to the undergrowth” @ Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki, FI.
2020 Abierto Mexicano de Diseño “Utopia”. @ MUNAL, Mexico City, MX
2019 Abierto Mexicano de Diseño “Pop, Popular, Populista” @ MUNAL, Mexico City, MX
Talks & Texts
2025 ‘Crear jugando’. Architectural Digest Mexico.
2024 'Decolonization of Design: fictions of sustainability?'. Helsinki, FI.
2018 XI Iberoamerican Seminar on Cooperation in Crafts. San Miguel de Allende, MX
2014 Artisanal & Contemporary Design Symposium. Autenticidad en las prácticas colaborativas. Puebla, MX
Clients
Anal Magazine
Architectural Digest
Casa Pedregal
Cecilia León de la Barra
CHUEN MX – Cristina Reyes Perez
Construcciones Re Lo Ruiz
Helsinki Biochar Project
Migrant Ecologies Project – Lucy Davis
Non Destructive Analysis for Studies in Art, Archeology and History (ANDREAH)
Regina Pozo
Tania Álvarez Zaldivar
LUTECA
Lab for the City (Laboratorio para la Ciudad)
VISIO Festival