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a selection of social initiatives and projects
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CREATIVE ECONOMY & CULTURE
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CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
ATLAS
project
Port of Vigo, Spain
A public cultural venue aimed to foster economic development of the Vigo region, bringing together cultural programming, new media art, digital public space, and civic engagement.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
Mexico CityRoom
project
Beijing, China
An interactive cultural pavilion designed to promote bilateral relations between Beijing and Mexico City. The Windows to Mexico City design, curatorship and construction engaged diverse young citizens and artists from Mexico and Beijing.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
TRYCITIES
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Montreal, Mexico, Paris, Hanoi
TRYCITIES stands for transformative youth cities. A global program that brings together diverse youth communities, civil society, and science, to co-incubate youth-led sustainable urban innovations.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
WElab
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Global
A new community innovation infrastructure and a program harvesting our decades' long research and practice on social innovation and community development through creative economies.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
Caracol de Viento
project
Mexico City
A sustainable cultural pavilion that brought together Indigenous traditions and ecological design, aimed at promoting innovative cultural learning spaces, urban playgrounds, and sustainable tourism.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
TIPI ISLES
project
Ontario, Canada
A new generation of cluster public cultural venues to reignite the cultural industries in the Covid-19 era. Tipi Isles are made by units based on negative pressure isolation rooms for infectious diseases and natural climatic properties .
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
FUTURE ROOTS
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Canada and Mexico
A program that brings together urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth to collaborate in the awareness of their cultural traditions for sustainable futures and social change.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
Spotlight for kids
project
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
Light Snail
project
London, UK
An interactive pavilion designed to mobilize the cultures of Oaxaca. Based on the imagination of the Mixteca and Zapoteca culture, the pavilion exhibit displays 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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
OZTOK
project
Shanghai, China
An interactive cultural pavilion designed to promote bilateral relations between Shanghai and Mexico City. Based on the mythical origin place of some 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.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
MooVIT
project
Mexico City
A cultural mobile unit meant to travel and deploy in some of the most intricate corners of Mexico City, taking an 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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
ZEMPOAL
project
Toronto, Canada
An interactive pavilion designed to promote the heritage of the Mexican Day of the Dead within a multicultural area in Toronto. The pavilion's exhibit was dedicated to uniting people while sharing stories and memories.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
OASIS
project
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
A model of sustainable community space combining urban intervention, 'healthy culture' programming and civic engagement to regenerate one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the eastern peripheral border of Mexico City, actively involving local young students and grassroots communities.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
Holosciens
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
A collaborative R&D program that brought together health science universities, interdisciplinary researchers, young leaders and grassroots communities to ideate solutions for youth-led healthy cities.
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Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
Polisphere
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Queretaro, Mexico
A public pavilion set to commemorate the Mexican Constitution in its birthplace. The pavilion tells a sensorial story of the makers of a new nation —icons and land workers—, and offers a new kind of Citizen Forum to discuss the future City.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
WAWA MIKUY
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Quito, Ecuador
A healthy culture and educational program to counter diabetes and obesity indexes of children in vulnerable neighborhoods in Quito, bringing together local NGOs, health science professionals, students and teachers of private and public schools.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
Pathway
project
Puebla, Mexico
An urban intervention in Puebla City downtown, designed to promote local economic development while expanding the pedestrian possibilities of the city as a second layer of the street among treetops, bridging commercial streets with public building rooftops.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
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