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Via Olona, 4
Guatemala Designs with Its Hands arrives at 5Vie Design Week 2026 to celebrate the fusion of artisanal tradition and contemporary design. A traveling project that invites audiences to discover Guatemala’s cultural and creative richness through a perspective that brings together ancestral heritage, innovation, and sustainability.
The exhibition stems from a national open call addressed to design studios, artisans, and textile artists. An international jury selected the works of 17 Guatemalan design studios, reflecting the vitality of today’s creative landscape.
The project revolves around a collaborative installation inspired by the Temple of the Great Jaguar in Tikal, conceived as a symbolic space of encounter between past and present. The aluminum structure is wrapped in two textile skins representing the connection between tradition and innovation. The exterior covering, Weaving Color, combines traditional textile techniques with digital tools and was developed by the Guatemalan studio Nebula Handmade together with artisans and artists from Lake Atitlán under a fair-trade model. The interior covering brings together patterns, colors, and techniques from different Maya communities into a single collective textile, created by women from 21 weaving councils across Guatemala, belonging to the National Movement of Guatemalan Weavers and the Association of Tactiqueña Artisan Weavers B’atz’ from Alta Verapaz.
Inside the pyramid, the immersive experience connects design, territory, and memory through architecture, sound, and audiovisual elements, evoking landscapes, markets, Maya languages, and textiles, positioning design as a living expression of identity and future.
The project, by Idonika with architecture by Amarillo Studio for INGUAT, reaffirms Guatemala’s commitment to design as a tool to promote its cultural heritage, identity, and creativity.
