![]() ![]() Gómez-Mont recently spent a week on campus for her fall residency, meeting with faculty and students. ![]() The Georgetown Global Cities Initiative is honored to have her serve as this year’s visiting fellow. ![]() Gabriella Gómez-Mont was appointed Chief Creative Officer, a position from which she then formed the Laboratorio para la Cuidad (the Laboratory for the City) as the primary vehicle to introduce a culture of participatory practices, experimentation and creative change from within the municipal government from 2013 to 2018. In 2012, the then newly elected mayor, Miguel Ángel Mancera (2013 - 2018), pledged a new look at old problems by introducing a new position within his administration: a dedicated director of urban innovation and creative problem-solving. As one of the world’s first megacities, any new public initiative in Mexico City must scale to the tens of millions. With more than 20 million people in the metro area, an economy larger than the country of Chile, and nearly 700 years of place-based cultural history, contemporary Mexico City is continuously searching for new strategies to overcome complex challenges of systemic poverty, a degraded urban environment, and the inequitable distribution of public resources. Author: Chrystie Swiney, Doctoral Fellow Global Cities Initiative ![]()
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