Gabriella Gómez-Mont: «Cities are the best vehicle for ideas to travel»

Gabriella Gómez-Mont explains how the Laboratorio para la Ciudad from Mexico City aims to inject innovation and citizen participation in an experimental space addressing the challenges of a megalopolis, from different approaches, scales and disciplines. It facilitates the interaction between citizens and governments, making people realize citizenship is a creative act and governments are catalyzers.

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Gabriella directs Laboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico City's new creative think-tank and experimental space. Gabriella has won several international awards and recognitions for her work in different disciplines. Gabriella is a Fabrica alumni, a TED Senior Fellow and a Yale World Fellow, and was recently selected as a World Cities Summit Young Leader.

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