Family workshop · Made in Mexico

We invent worlds to play in together, and to care for the one we share.

We are La Fábrica Inventiva, a family workshop. As a family, we invent games, stories and objects that bring us back together around a table. Here, imagination has a job: to bring us closer to our children and to the nature of Mexico.

How it all began What comes out of the workshop

“First, the workshop. Then, the story. And then, your turn.”

What we do
Our story
Your turn

1What we do

Three crafts, one table

Illustration: a jaguar, an axolotl, a macaw and a parrotfish facing four Villains

A board game

FAUNA Guardianes

A cooperative game in which everyone works together to care for a territory.

Discover the game

Illustrated cover of a story: a jaguar in the rainforest

Stories and a podcast

Biblioteca UC

Stories that leave a question glowing at bedtime.

Read and listen

Signature pieces

Atelier

Objects that begin as an idea and take shape in the workshop.

See the pieces

2Our story

From an after-dinner conversation to fifteen Guardians

An after-dinner conversation
An after-dinner conversation opened the door
It all began with a dad and his two children inventing a game. We wanted to really be together: to listen to each other, to make decisions as a team and to see what could grow out of an afternoon spent together.
“The first audience is always the most demanding.”
The first four
Four Guardians found a table
AXO, the axolotl; BALAM, the jaguar; LUMA, the macaw; and CORAL, the parrotfish. Each character brought a story and a question: how do we care for something we don't know yet?
Science sits down to play
With biologists from Tabasco, the Wanha' collection was born
Five more Guardians, from mangroves, wetlands, rivers and rainforest: RIZELA, the red mangrove; XIKNAL, the roseate spoonbill; CENTOR, the snook; BRAMOR, the black howler monkey; and MELITA, the Melipona bee. Their names came from a contest. The knowledge of the territory comes from the people who study it up close.
The game travels
We donated games in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve
In Quintana Roo, where the rainforest meets the sea. The cards of the first collection can also be read in Maya.
Today
The notebook keeps growing
Today the project brings together 15 Guardians and 1200 digital cards. The five newest — ÁMBAR, BALEY, CIMA, INIA and CRUM — have just arrived, and the Guardians of Wanha' now have names and stories. We keep inventing so that playing together is also a way of learning to care.
Each new Guardian will be an endangered animal. It will arrive together with the people who study it, the people who live alongside it and anyone who wants to help tell its story.
“Four hands before any box.”