Now in its eighth edition, Design Week Mexico, in collaboration with Museo Tamayo, has unveiled the design for a major public architectural pavilion designed by leading German architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller. Until Spring 2017, the installation will be a cultural attraction at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City’s largest public park.
Entitled Museum of Immortality II, the project is based on an unrealized concept by German-Russian philosopher Boris Groys, and draws on 19th Century Russian philosopher Nikolai Federov’s “notion of the ‘Common Task,’ which envisions the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to achieve technological immortality and material resurrection for all men who have ever lived. Federov believed that museums provided the ideal setting for such resurrections to take place, having developed preservation and conservation techniques.”
