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Our territories are waiting for the search and encounter of constructions that generatedifferent realities for their communities. This project seeks to make visible how industrial design canbe an articulator in the processes of cultural reconstruction in communities struggling for their re-ethnization, where their material expressions still do not cross the barriers of intangibility.In this process, the aim is to elucidate the possible tangible-intangibles that the Muisca indigenouscabildo of Suba (Bogotá-Colombia) keeps through their immaterial memory inherited by theirancestors, finding themselves in the search of objectual attributes that contribute and support theirprocess of reconstruction as an indigenous community.The ritual is taken as a starting point, since it conjugates the dimensions with greater holistic andsignificant significance, where part of the oral and gestural discourse that the community uses for theconstruction of their magical-religious thought is kept, permeating the preservation of their traditionsand beliefs in the consumption of medicinal plants of the territory, thus achieving the exercise of theirtraditional medicine inside and outside the cabildo.Part of the methodological development begins with the analysis of the ritual configuration and themagical-religious thinking of the community's traditional healer and physician (Ignacio Rozo), whichallows us to inquire about possible artifactual interventions that mediate and recreate this activity inthe reality of today's Muisca Indians, preserving their memory and practical heritage.In this dialogue we observe how the community survives through the adaptation of its identity thattransits within a narrative of duty/being indigenous in the city, reconfiguring its cultural expressionsand hybridizing them with the urban everyday life.