(Mexico City, 1993)

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.
2025    Living Surfaces. Turun Konserttitalo, Turku, FI.
2024    Offerings to the undergrowth. Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki, FI.
2020    Utopia. Abierto Mexicano de Diseño. MUNAL, Mexico City, MX
2019    Pop, Popular, Populista. Abierto Mexicano de Diseño “”. 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