Join us at the Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) Symposium on Urban Futures on Monday, March 31 from 6 – 8 PM at the Frances Loeb Library. Each year, MCI funds a select number of students to carry out innovative research over the summer to investigate the transformation of Mexico’s complex urban landscapes over the next decades. In this year’s symposium, the 2024 summer fellows will share their findings on evolving urban publics in the face of the climate crisis and environmental disruption.

MCI Fellows will present the following projects:

- The Publics of Seismic Memory: Past, Present, and Future (Elena Castellanos and Jess Shakesprere)

- Cooling Monterrey: Examining Spatial Narratives of Heat in the Public Parks of Monterrey, Mexico (Aakash Dave, Naomi Mehta, and Asmita Patnaik)

- El Futuro es Ancestral: The Soft Power of Gastronomic Tourism as an Agent of Urban Identity and Transformation in Mexico (Sami Um).

With reviewers:

- Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard GSD

- Lorena Bello Gómez, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD

- Nina Ebner, USF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Colegio de Mexico

- Alberto Kritzler, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD

Please join the MCI Research Fellows and reviewers on Monday, March 31st from 6 – 8 PM at the Frances Loeb Library. Food will be provided!