Dezeen promotion: this year's edition of Design Week Mexico will involve exhibitions, installations and talks across the country's capital from 4 to 8 October 2017.
The festival's ninth edition will bring together Mexico City's design community and international participants for a packed programme of events.
This year's Design Week Mexico will include an exhibition titled 100 Years of Swiss Design, which will feature the Herme?s Baby typewriter by Paillard Bollex
In honour of this year's guest country, Switzerland, an exhibition of Swiss design will be mounted at the Museo de Arte Moderno, following its debut at Zurich's Museum für Gestaltung in 2014.
The updated iteration of 100 Years of Swiss Design will highlight relationships between the two countries, including former Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer's decade spent in Mexico. It will run from 5 October 2017 until 25 February 2018. Swiss designers will pair up with craftspeople from Puebla to create items for Visión & Tradición
Swiss designers will also collaborate with craftspeople from this year's guest state Puebla, to create items that blend the traditions of the two places.
These will be presented as part of the Visión & Tradición exhibition at Museo Tamayo, which is also hosting Inédito ? a display of new work by emerging Mexican designers and studios, including Äco, Acoocooro, Comité de Proyectos, Equipo Miztli, Josué Ulises and Vertebral.
Last year's pavilion for the DWM Tamayo Project comprised c...