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Translating complex civic challenges into concrete execution. See how we shape human-centric futures through strategy, spatial design, and talent incubation.
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spatial design & placemaking
EcoNode
CIRCULAR MICROMOBILITY HUB
Mexico City
EcoNode meets the demand for scalable, sustainable infrastructure by merging circular design with material innovation. The multifunctional hub is defined by its uniquely curved, 100% upcycled canopy, providing urban placemaking with a carbon-saving impact equivalent to planting 55 trees.
PARTNERS
THE GOOD PLASTIC COMPANY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AT UNAM
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
CREATIVE CONTRASTS
CROSS-BORDER EXPERIENTIAL LABORATORY
Mexico City
Creative Contrasts immersed a cohort of international designers into the complex urban dynamics of Mexico City. By moving beyond traditional observation into deep participatory engagement, the program trained participants to decode civic friction, uncover hidden innovation, and awaken essential leadership skills alongside local changemakers.
PARTNER: OCAD UNIVERSITY
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
INNOVATION STRATEGY
IE2
SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS
Institutional Transformation & Spatial Masterplan
Mexico City
Transforming a traditional academic research center into a dynamic hub for socio-environmental innovation. Through a deep participatory process, we co-created a comprehensive roadmap for institutional transformation that pairs a climate-resilient spatial masterplan with a collaborative operational model to translate applied ecological science into real-world impact.
PARTNER: INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AT UNAM
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
2GAITHER
Multi-Lateral Capacity & Urban Revitalization
Caribbean, Amazonia, Mexico and Europe
Co-financed by the European Union’s Interreg program, 2GAITHER is a multi-lateral initiative uniting Europe, the Caribbean-Amazonia region, and Mexico to revitalize marginalized neighborhoods through applied cultural action. The consortium bridges bottom-up civic immersion with architectural diagnostics to transform public spaces and forge a lasting bridge across three global regions.
PARTNERS
MÉTIS'GWA, GUADELOUPE
LE PLUS PETIT CIRQUE DU MONDE, FRANCE
EU INTERREG CARAÏBES
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
INNOVATION STRATEGY
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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ART & FUTURES
Mexico
A radically new festival model connects art and the imagination of sustainable futures in a creative, fun and participatory way - turning negative narratives into positive action. People and sectors come together in spaces of creation, discussion and celebration, taking the transformative power of art to the next level.
PARTNER: NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
INNOVATION STRATEGY
PROJECT CHINAMPA
green transition initiative
Xochimilco, Mexico City
Explore the power of Chinampas to imagine sustainable cities and green solutions based on community and nature - using tradition, art and science together with a local and global community of practice.
PART OF: THE GOOD ENOUGH TRANSFORMATION
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
GET
The Good Enough Transformation
global consortium
Sweden, Denmark, France, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Malaysia, Canada, Mexico
GET is a Global Community of Practice that brings together 9 countries on 4 continents, to learn from the traditional knowledge of grassroots communities worldwide and to find sustainable and accessible innovations for a Green Transition —NOW!
PARTNERS
TRANS EUROPE HALLES, SWEDEN
OCAD UNIVERSITY, CANADA
INSTITUT FOR (X), DENMARK
LE PLUS PETIT CIRQUE DU MONDE, PARIS
RTDA STUDIO, MOROCO
TAMADIA, BURKINA FASO
BORNEO LABORATORY, MALAYSIA
GARDENS OF THE FUTURE, CYPRUS
SUPPORTED BY: GLOBUS, NORDISK KULTURFOND
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
BORDER RENAISSANCE
CREATIVE CITIZENS PROGRAM
US-Mexico Border
Imagine a new generation of young creatives, inventors, and innovators from underserved neighborhoods in San Diego and Tijuana coming together to envision a better urban future for their communities.
PARTNER: BORDER PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
IMPACT
art & identity PROGRAM
United Kingdom
IMPACT is an arts-based social change tool developed in partnership with the Organization for Identity and Cultural Development. IMPACT addresses the challenges of identity-based conflict, polarization and diverse cultural heritage in cities across the UK.
PARTNER: OICD
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
spatial design & placemaking
ATLAS
CIVIC CULTURAL CENTER
Port of Vigo, Spain
A new public space for culture and community on the coast of Vigo, manifesting the link between natural heritage, city identity and technology. Atlas offers an iconic space for civic engagement, creative economy and urban memory.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
spatial design & placemaking
Mexico CityRoom
墨城室觉
cultural pavilion
Beijing, China
Interactive pavilion celebrating cultural cooperation between Mexico City and Beijing. Two cities come together as young citizens of Mexico City share moments of urban life through Augmented Reality "windows" in a public space in Beijing —integrating cultural symbols from each city.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
TRYCITIES
youth urban incubator
Montreal, Mexico, Paris, Hanoi
TRYCITIES stands for transformative youth cities. An urban incubator that brought together diverse urban youth, civil society, and social science in Montreal, Mexico City, Paris and Hanoi —to create sustainable urban innovations for marginalized urban populations.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Orbis
community-based innovation campus
Global
A campus for sustainable innovation that provides an integrated system of spaces, experiences, and processes to empower ordinary citizens to collaborate, learn, research and create solutions for their city.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Caracol de Viento
CULTURAL PAVILION
Mexico City
A cultural, recyclable pavilion made of PET bottles, bamboo, interactive mechanisms, ancestral legends and musical instruments, manifesting a bridge between the cultural heritage of Mexico's indigenous peoples and contemporary approaches to environmental sustainability.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
TIPI ISLES
FLOATING CULTURAL VENUE
Ontario, Canada
Could vernacular technologies and architectures inspire future solutions? The "Teepee Isles" prototype, based on the architecture of North American First Nations, creates a new generation of cultural venues equipped to deal with airborne infectious diseases such as covid19.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
FUTURE ROOTS
CREATIVE CITIZENS PROGRAM
Canada and Mexico
Future Roots brings together urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth to work together in awareness of their cultural traditions and to imagine social innovations for a more inclusive future.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Light Snail
CULTURAL PAVILION
London, UK
Immersive storytelling space based on the imagination of the Mixteca and Zapoteca cultures and traditional Oaxaca black pottery. The pavilion hosts an exhibition of the work of traditional artisans and contemporary new media artists.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
OZTOK
CULTURAL PAVILION
Shanghai, China
An interactive cultural pavilion for bilateral relations between Shanghai and Mexico City. Based on the mythical origin place of the Nahua peoples, Chicomoztoc, the pavilion offers mixed-reality stories about Mexico City.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Spotlight for kids
HEALTH PROMOTION module
Mexico City
An educational tool with a children-friendly approach to communicating public safety measures about the Covid-19 pandemic, co-created with elementary schools in five communities in the periphery of Mexico City.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Cultural Center on Wheels
MOBILE CULTURAL UNIT
Mexico City
The Cultural Center on Wheels brought diverse cultural programming to underserved neighborhoods in Mexico City's historic center. Run by grassroots communities, the project was developed in partnership with local community food centers and supported by the city's participatory budget.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
ZEMPOAL
cultural pavilion
Toronto, Canada
An immersive storytelling experience about the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead in a multicultural area of Toronto. Zempoal tells the story of a tradition woven into the fabric of Mexico's mixed identity and offers visitors an interactive space to share their memories.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
MooVIT
mobile cultural unit
Mexico City
A mobile cultural unit meant working in some of the most challenging corners of Mexico City, bringing a inclusive cultural and educational program to different neighborhoods and communities.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
OASIS
HEALTHY PLACEMAKING
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
A model of community urban regeneration, 'healthy culture' programming and civic engagement in one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the eastern peripheral border of Mexico City.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
Civic IMMERSION & Talent Incubation
Holosciens
CREATIVE CITIZENS program
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
Holosciens transformed a health sciences university into a "Healthy City Hub" in the periphery of Mexico City by bringing together students, professors, neighbors, at-risk youth, sustainability experts and public servants to regenerate a marginalized neighborhood.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Polisphere
CIVIC PAVILION
Queretaro, Mexico
A civic pavilion commemorating the Mexican Constitution in its birthplace. The pavilion tells the story of the makers of a new nation, from iconic figures to anonymous workers of the land, and provides a civic forum for the future city.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
CIVIC CAPACITY & TALENT INCUBATION
Alterritorios
Walking URBAN lab
Mexico
An experiential protocol for experiencing, discovering and reimagining cities within cities. Young citizens interact and adventure with a variety of urban actors in a journey of transformation through ordinary and extraordinary spaces, events and stories of cities.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SPATIAL DESIGN & PLACEMAKING
Treetop City
urban intervention
Puebla, Mexico
An urban intervention designed to expand the pedestrian possibilities of the city among the treetops, bridging commercial streets, cultural spaces and the rooftops of public buildings.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
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