Demián Ortiz Maciel

Demián Ortiz Maciel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Historical Anthropology from the Universidad Veracruzana and a Master’s Degree in Museology from the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía at INAH.

As a member of the work team of the Biblioteca de Investigación Juan de Córdova he develops exhibitions to make visible its collections, activities and research in the city of Oaxaca, and to help them reach Oaxacan communities in order to collaborate in their memory processes, heritage and linguistic strengthening.

He is a professor of the Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Management at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca and also promotes the project Museos sin Paredes which documents, disseminates and reflects upon museological experiences that integrate biocultural heritage and outdoor elements, such as interpretation centers, ecomuseums, ethnobotanical gardens and community spaces.

Accompanied by colleagues and communities, he has sought to contribute to integrating spaces of knowledge and experience that tend to be separated in Mexican institutions: culture-nature, interior-exterior, academic research-dissemination, collections-society.