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PROJECT CHINAMPA
green transition initiative
Xochimilco, Mexico City
Explore the power of the socio-ecological and agricultural heritage system of the 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.
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
WElab
COMMUNITY INNOVATION LAB
Global
A community 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.
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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
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
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.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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.
CREATIVE ECONOMY & culture
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.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
Alterritorios
a 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.
SOCIAL & URBAN INNOVATION
Walking City
PUBLIC SPACE ARCHITECTURE
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.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
WAWA MIKUY
HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM
Quito, Ecuador
An arts-based health promotion program to counter diabetes and obesity indexes of children in vulnerable neighborhoods in Quito, bringing together local NGOs, health science professionals, and public educators.
Cultural pavilion that shares moments inside the life of endless and diverse Mexico City in Beijing Design Week.
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