Biodiseño Mx. Territorios vivos

The walls are the first exhibit. Mixterra plastered them with clay-rich earth from Oaxaca, an old technique that regulates the room's temperature and humidity by itself, and the display stands are recycled-plastic panels. Inside that landscape, shaped after Mexico's mountains, are 74 works by more than 60 designers in what the museum bills as Mexico's first biodesign exhibition.

It runs in five sections: Flora, Fauna, Microbia, Funga and Bioinspiration. You walk from agave-fibre lamps and textiles grown from bacterial cellulose to bee shelters, insect pigments and 3D-printed reefs for coral restoration. The curator's argument, quoted in Excélsior, is that Mexican biodesign is neither new nor futuristic but comes from ancestral knowledge. Cena con Micelio makes it the one dinner table in Mexico City where fungus on the furniture is the point.

It's in Temporales II and included in the MXN 130 general ticket (under-12s free, everyone free on Tuesdays). The museum now lists it until 25 October, two weeks past the closing date first announced.