Gabriella Gomez-Mont: the right to imagine

Gabriella sees the city as a travelling surface for new ideas, projects and public debates; alive on the surface with many worlds hidden in its folds. She says that we create our cities and then our cities in turn create us. As Chief Creative Officer for Mexico City, she led a team as varied as the city – bringing together urban geographers, data experts, political scientists, lawyers, artists, historians, philosophers, writers, architects, futurists, and everything in between. Together, her team engages people in urban imagination, travelling back to first principles to ask: how do we want to live together? How will we move together? How will we be healthy together? How will we play together? So that, working together, people can come up with better answers for our times and for our futures. Made by Jo Barratt with Gemma Mortensen, Iris Andrews, Lily Piachaud and Hadeel Elshak. Music made for New Constellations by Art School Girlfriend. Transcription Discover more at newconstellations.co, and join us on Instagram and Twitter @newconstells

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For millennia, across cultures and continents, we have looked to the stars to navigate when we are lost. In this era of transformation, in which everything is in flux, we are locked onto old stars that are pulling us in a perilous direction. We need to discover new possibilities, and reset our course. New Constellations exists to help people imagine and create better, more beautiful futures; futures in which humanity and the planet flourish together. We invite you to meet and journey with some of the many pioneering people and communities whose thinking, work and practice shines light on the way ahead. Join us and learn more at https://newconstellations.co/