Dinorah Schulte merges Mayan lime traditions with robotic fabrication to rethink sustainable construction
In Aztec mythology, the corn deity Cintéotl, whose name means “ear of corn,” was the son of the gods of fertility and abundance. Rituals in his honor reinforced community bonds and the collective labor that made corn cultivation possible. For the civilizations of Mesoamerica, corn was not merely a crop. It was called tlaolli in Nahuatl, meaning “our sustenance,” and it held the culture’s spiritual, economic, and social fabric together across millennia.