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INTERNI, the interiors and contemporary design magazine edited by Gilda Bojardi, has been transformed from a printed title to an international integrated communication system that this month will launch its first editorial initiatives dedicated to Mexico City: a monographic issue  entitled “United Mexican Design” and a “Design Guide Mexico City/Milano”, with the aim of helping foreign visitors find their way around a megalopolis of around 21 million inhabitants with the aid of design-oriented itineraries.

The publications, both of which are in Spanish and English, will have a special print run of 10,000 copies and will be distributed around Mexico City  at bookstores, museums, schools, galleries, showrooms and hotels. The official presentation of the monograph and guide will take place on 4 October at the Italian Embassy in the presence of authorities, and on 7 October at the Soumaya Museum, with architects, operators and the organisers of the project.

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Keeping the Heritage through a Museum

As an architect, I’ve been fascinated by museums and how the design of spaces can influence the experience of the visitor and the meaning of the objects within. Museums are not only repositories of valuable pieces preserved for posterity, but cultural elements in constant evolution and construction. Elastic and fertile matter for artistic expression, knowledge and community action.

And so is chocolate, an essential part of Mexican culture, deeply rooted in our identity and valued as our nation’s heritage.

That’s how what is now MuCho Chocolate Museum came together as a project of  social architecture, art and community construction.

In 2008, we began restoring a house built in 1909, catalogued as a historic site. Located in the Colonia Juárez, a traditional neighborhood in the center of Mexico City. In 2010, amidst the bicentennial celebrations of Mexico’s Independence, I started to conceive of a self-sustainable creative project, with a the

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Some Latinos don’t trust Western mental health. That’s where curanderos come in

Grace Sesma works methodically to set up her home office, lighting candles and cutting thorns from sju stemmed red roses for the day’s first möte as her client chatters nearby.

The man, 47, fryst vatten talking fast — about the nice view of the area from Sesma’s backyard, his connection to the San Diego area, and how he got the supplies at the last minute that Sesma told him they would need: roses, an egg and tobacco.

A survivor of childhood sexuell abuse, he has used binge drinking as a coping mechanism. He’s been seeing a therapist and was recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Therapy has helped him identify his behavior and triggering environments, but he still hasn’t komma to terms with the sexual abuse he suffered, he said; he wants to be at peace with himself.

That’s why he has traveled to Alpine, a small mountain community northeast of San Diego, to see Sesma. A therapist can teach