# Mexican Cities Initative: 2017 Summer Research Fellowship Program Presentation #### calendar\_today Date and Time **February 26, 2018** 06:00PM - 09:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Frances Loeb Library, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design** \[\[{"fid":"968031","view\_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"731","width":"473","alt":"mci","title":"mci","class":"media-element file-default"}}\]\] The Mexican Cities Initiative Summer Research Fellowship has been established to fund innovative research on Mexico’s cities, open to all current GSD students and their collaborators. We solicit projects that offer new ways of envisioning Mexican cities and the role of humanist, design-based research in urban transformation, to research and communicate risk and resilience through the lens of everyday urbanism. The 2017 Summer Research Fellows will present their findings from the field alongside guest critics Jose Castillo (Principal, a | 911), Enrique Cifuentes (Principal Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health), Belinda Tato (Co-founder, *ecosistema urbano)*, and Surella Segu (Loeb Fellow; Co-founder, *El Cielo* Architects). *The Oasis and the Human: A Race for Environmental Preservation*—**Oliver J. Curtis** & **Gabriel Muñoz Moreno** *Bringing Down the Wall: Primary Schools as Social Condensers in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca*—**Karen Mata**, **Rodrigo Guerra** & **Jorge Silva** *Tracking Trash: Formal and Informal Waste Networks in Mexico City*—**Antonio Casalduc**, **Cynthia Deng**, **Elif Erez**, **Ngoc Doan** & **Omar Valentín** **Guest Critics**: Jose Castillo, Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design; Principal, a | 911 Enrique Cifuentes, Principal Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Belinda Tato, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture; Co-founder, *ecosistema urbano* Surella Segu, Loeb Fello 2018; Co-founder & Co-director, *El Cielo* Architects **Introductory Remarks**: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism; Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD; Faculty Chair of the DRCLAS Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Program Please join us on Monday, February 26th at 6 PM. Reception to follow presentations, RSVP here Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) supports a public archive of Mexico-based research conducted at the GSD and elsewhere, a network of partnerships in and beyond Mexico, and an annual summer fellowship for innovative student research. See also:- [ Cambridge ](/locations/cambridge-office) - [ Mexico ](/programs-initiatives/mexico) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.drclas.harvard.edu/node/1292593/event-feed.ics) Copy link link