Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Founder, Experimentalista
Complete testimony
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| Min. 5:25 | Large infrastructures can no longer be planned the way they used to be planned. [They need to be] not monolithic, understood from their dynamics, from a multiplicity of functions, for a world that is much less easily predictable than it was a decade ago.
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Founder, Experimentalista
| Min. 18:27 | The moment we have the possibility to activate an important symbol for the city, the more there is a multiplicity of possibilities to belong to this symbol, to use this space. How do we come back to the need for these infrastructures to be antimonolithic, and somehow break the path dependency in forms that are also civic, participatory and so on?
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Founder, Experimentalista
| Min. 30:13 | It's interesting to take a look at our models of progress. One specific project we are tackling as a society has to do with creating innovation ecosystems. How can we create spaces in a port, for example, that don't assume that our ideas about that infrastructure are stable over time, but allow for gaps where the infrastructure is constantly reinventing itself. That's why I think conversations about gaps as space for future possibilities are necessary.
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Founder, Experimentalista
| Min. 47:55 | Laws and public policies are designed for static cities, a city that does not change. [...] How can we see ourselves in our diversity and in a less dictatorial, less modernist relationship with our environment and instead, from now on, every time we build new infrastructures, think about the necessary flexibility that these infrastructures must have because our old way of dealing with natural and climatic processes is no longer sufficient and cannot be sustained.
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Founder, Experimentalista
Bio
Gabriella Gómez-Mont is the director and founder of Experimentalista, a new urban and creative studio that works with Mayors, cities and organizations around the world. Gabriella founded Laboratorio para la Ciudad, the experimental area of civic innovation and urban creativity of the Mexico City government from 2013 to 2018. In addition to her fascination with all things urban, Gabriella is also a journalist, visual artist and documentary filmmaker. She has been awarded several international recognitions for her work in different fields, such as the first prize in both the Audi Urban Future Award and the Best Art Practice Award given by the Italian government, as well as the TED City 2.0 Prize, among others.
