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2018 World Design Capital in
MEXICO CITY
Under the theme 'Socially Responsible Design'
After a selection process in 2015, CDMX was
designated as World Design Capital 2018. This
initiative, driven by Design Week Mexico
along with the City Government, makes
CDMX the sixth city, and the first in the
American continent to obtain this title given
every two years by the World Design
Organization (WDO)™.
Under the theme 'Socially Responsible Design', the WDC
Mexico City 2018's program will promote design and
creativity as engines of social and cultural change in an urban
context, as well as to offer proposals to solve the challenges
of megacities around the world such as public space,
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mobility and sustainability. All the creative community will be
able to rethink the concept of a megacity, and exhibit the
continuous efforts to build a more liveable city.
“World Design Capital Mexico City 2018 has focused on a
socially responsible design approach, in order to encourage
conversations about design as a configurator of material life
and ideas towards the benefit of urban life. The annual
agenda that has been prepared joins us to a global movement
of cities with a proposal of a Public Program as an active
meeting point for professionals and citizens to shape the
urban future for our city”, said Emilio Cabrero, general
director of Design Week Mexico and World Design Capital
Mexico City 2018.
Throughout 2018, World Design Capital Mexico City will