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Museography
The Mexican pavilion’s museography for the 2010 Shanghai Universal Expo captures Mexico’s beauty and features, emphasizing public spaces as the essence of Mexican cities.
The development of public spaces is essential for creating better cities and increasing quality of life. To create a better city we must support social cohesion—by occupying public spaces.
The Mexican pavilion’s museography is a series of experiences where space dynamics, technology and collections come together to offer memorable and meaningful sensory experiences.
Click here to see the collection of works exhibited in the Mexican pavilion
Exhibition Halls
- Introduction
This hall was designed to welcome visitors, introduce Mexico (location, natural and cultural diversity) and present the exhibit’s guiding experience: public spaces create better cities by seeking a balance, building memories and promoting experiences.
The walls, slope and ceiling in this space have surrounding projections and an introductory video that explains the types of tours (linear, free and extensive).
- City and Nature
With this hall we want to show visitors the fragile balance between cities and nature and how this relationship coexists in various public spaces. We exhibit the natural diversity of the Mexican territory and its cities, which are embedded in various ecosystems and have many vocations.
One of the walls of this area shows images of the world’s five ecosystems. This projection is supported by a sensor system that allows visitors to watch how cities grow as they approach the wall.
- City and Heritage
The hall’s key concept is memory. The goal is to show how public spaces project identity. To do so, we exhibit the diversity of Mexico’s tangible heritage and the way memories are constantly being created and developed in various spaces in Mexico.
This hall also includes six “donuts”, through which visitors can fly over Mexican cities, get a sense of their atmosphere and listen to whispers that talk about their inhabitants’ memories. Each “donut” alternates images from cities that have been named Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and images from modern cities.
- City and Population
This hall was designed to show how public spaces are meeting points for people of all kinds and many harmonic experiences. The hall shows the diversity of Mexican regions and cities where the various elements of our national identity come together. It also shows Mexico’s intangible heritage -its languages, traditions, music, dance, literature and gastronomy, to name a few.
There are also forty masks containing screens. When visitors “peek into” the masks, they can see public spaces and are able to appreciate Mexicans through the eyes of Mexicans. Each mask shows a different square of modern Mexico.
- Information Halls
Hall 1. City and Nature
This hall presents accurate data regarding the link between nature and Mexican cities, including public policies for sustainable development, protected natural areas, ecosystems, natural resources and territory. Most of the information presented in this hall is part of CONABIO’s (National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) “Natural Capital” research.
Hall 2. City and Heritage
This hall exhibits samples of Mexico’s material heritage, as well as the ways in which it creates and transforms the memories of cities and their inhabitants. It also presents public policies that have been implemented to protect said heritage.
Hall 3. City and Population
This presents the complex fabrics that are Mexican cities, which are considered as receptive spaces for a population that has a wealth and a variety of traditions.
- Urban Acupunctures (transition spaces)
The concept of urban acupuncture was born from the idea that by stimulating one point, many others can be affected. These spaces are transitions between halls and they show how the inhabitants of a city can reinvent and reclaim their city through the positive energy that is created when their own experiences converge in public spaces. Cities are dynamic spaces that are constantly being built and that develop thanks to their inhabitants’ actions.
