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