Event—Mexican Cities Initiative: 2016 Fellowship Presentation
2016 Summer Research Fellowship Program Presentation
Date: Monday, January 30th from 6 PM—9 PM. Reception to follow presentations
Place: Room 112 in Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Mexican Cities Initiative Summer Research Fellowship has been established to fund innovative research on Mexico’s cities, open to all current GSD students and their collaborators. We solicit projects that offer new ways of envisioning Mexican cities and the role of humanist, design-based research in urban transformation, to research and communicate risk and resilience through the lens of everyday urbanism.
The 2016 Summer Research Fellows will present their findings from the field alongside guest critics Jose Castillo (Principal, a | 911), Benjamin Romano (Architect, LBR&A Arquitectos), Belinda Tato (Co-founder, ecosistema urbano), and Carlos Zedillo (Head of the Research Center for Sustainable Development, INFONAVIT).
Presenting:
Holding It Together: Self-Provision and Institutional Management of Trash and Mobility Networks in Kanasin, Yucatan—Caroline Filice Smith, David Schoen, Juan Santa María & Rubén Segovia
Domestic Labor: The Invisible Paths—Luisa Piñeros Sánchez & Rayana Hossain
Inside / Out: A Survey of the Public and Private in Mexico City’s Patios—Anna Falvello Tomas & John Going
Yucatan Initiative—Alice Armstrong, Alejandro Fernández-Linares García, Alex Duffy, Arianna Galán, Chris Liao & Marysol Rivas Brito
Guest Critics:
Jose Castillo
Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design; Principal, a | 911
Benjamin Romano
Expert in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Architect, LBR&A Arquitectos
Belinda Tato
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture; Co-founder, ecosistema urbano
Carlos Zedillo
Head of the Research Center for Sustainable Development, INFONAVIT
Introductory Remarks:
Diane Davis
Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism; Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Please join us next Monday 30th at 6 PM. Reception to follow presentations, RSVP here https://goo.gl/forms/Ftr3duX7o3CpYQ8q1
Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) supports a public archive of Mexico-based research conducted at the GSD and elsewhere, a network of partnerships in and beyond Mexico, and an annual summer fellowship for innovative student research.
