Open Call: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Sistemas de Fachadas

An open call to imagine a space for learning, creating and dreaming.

What can design do for the place where we learn every day?

To mark its 20th anniversary, Sistemas de Fachadas, in collaboration with Holland House Mexico and as part of the partner programme for the tenth edition of Abierto de Diseño CDMX, invites designers, artists, illustrators, architects, students and creative individuals from Mexico and the Netherlands—regardless of age, experience or educational background—to imagine a graphic intervention for Sara Manzano Primary School, located between Mexico City’s Historic Centre and Tepito.

The school is part of Save the Children Mexico’s support network and welcomes more than 200 children each year. For many of its students, it is more than a classroom: it is a place to learn, spend time together, play, eat, feel safe, express themselves and discover new possibilities for their future.

The invitation is simple: to use design and art to transform one of the school’s spaces, making it more stimulating, welcoming, joyful and imaginative for those who use it every day.

We are not looking to decorate a wall. We are looking for ideas capable of listening to a place and its community.

Submission format: Digital artwork in AI or PDF format
Intervention area: 4 × 4 m / four modules
Opening date: 6 August 2026
Closing date: 11 September 2026
Prize: MXN $20,000—approximately EUR 1,000, depending on the exchange
rate—for the winning proposal.

Please consult the full competition guidelines here.

Submit your design through the following link.

After two rounds of filtering, four designs will be selected and exhibited during Abierto de Diseño from September 25 to October 24 at CENART. Visit the exhibition and vote for your favorite finalist.

An initiative of

In collaboration of