Six winning initiatives for the Public Interest Design Awards: Mexico
By Bustler Editors|
Friday, Jun 27, 2014
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Six projects were recently chosen as the winners of the Public Interest Design Awards: Mexico. As socially impactful design practices gains more attention throughout Mexico, the awards are an opportunity for open discussion to address the various ongoing issues communities and individuals have to deal with.
After rigorous deliberation, the jury selected the projects whose initiatives best demonstrate community engagement, effectiveness, impact, and systematic design. They are:
- Impulso Urbano
- Atzompa pottery tradition: challenges and opportunity
- Diseño participativo y auto-construcción de un Centro Microregional de Innovación Tecnologica (Participatory design and community construction of a microregional center for technological innovation)
- A jam manufactory for NAXII
- Artisanal processes as catalyzers for sustainable urbanism
- Autoproducción de vivienda social asistida
Five Honorable Mention projects were also recognized. Winners will present their projects at a public two-day global convening in Mexico City taking place on September 11-12, 2014.
Participatory design and community construction of a microregional center for technological innovation (Diseño participativo y auto-construcción de un Centro Microregional de Innovación Tecnologica)
Location: San Miguel Peras, Oaxaca
Issues: Diversification and strengthening of sources of livelihoods; access to markets for value-added products; introduction of improved thermal properties in construction with local materials, strengthening opportunities for women.
Summary: "This project involved design students in Mexico City and Turin, Italy, as well as an important NGO in Oaxaca to assist a local cooperative to build a “technology innovation center” designed to permit value-added production based on local agricultural products in a structure designed to incorporate local construction culture and modern heat-managing design."
Team: Taller Max Cetto UNAM, Prof. Arch. Francisco Hernandez Spinola, et al.; Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione sui Paesi in Via di SviluppoPolitecnico di Torino, Arch. Francesca De Filippi, et al.;
Artisanal processes as catalyzers for sustainable urbanism
Location: Oaxaca, Oaxaca
Issues: Cultural Heritage, Economic Development, Alternative Energy, Functional Ecosystems, Smart Growth
Summary: "Project focuses on the generation of heat for either pottery firing or mezcal distilling through new and renewable mechanisms, including ovens that burn a wide array of recycled and alternative fuels, from used vegetable oil or car oil to methane. As Xaquixe shares this model with other artisanal activities this beneficial interchanges happen, the artisans obtain renewable energies while withdrawing wastes from their communities or the city, they increase their products quality and create new jobs; and they decreasing their emissions and stop using natural resources and or fossil fuels while improving their local economies."
Team: Studio Xaquixe: Christian Thornton, Salime Harp Cruces, Salvador Pulido Arroyo, Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico en Electroquimica - CIDETEQ), Universidad Vasconcelos de Oaxaca, Universidad Anahuac de Oaxaca.
Impulso Urbano
Location: Monterrey, NL, Mexico
Issues: Civic Engagement, Crime and Safety, Access to Services, Affordable Housing, Environmental Sustainability
Summary: "Impulso Urbano is a service-learning program that helps families and their communities to discover their potential to improve their level of living by identifying problems and eventually designing appropriate solutions using participatory strategies."
Team: Departamento de Arquitectura, ITESM Campus Monterrey, Edmundo Palacios, Alejandro Arcos, Alberto Torres and Ernesto Ramos
Atzompa pottery tradition: Challenges and opportunity
Location: Oaxaca, Oaxaca
Issues: Cultural Heritage, Health, Learning, Economic Development and Alternative Energy
Summary: "Innovando la Tradición worked with one of the oldest pottery villages in Mexico, Santa Maria Atzompa, to recapture ancient designs as a method for restoring the commercial viability of the artisans."
Team: Diego Mier y Teran, Kythzia Barrera, Luis Adrian Fernandez Ortega, Studio Xaquixe, Ruiz Family, Eric Mindling, Agua sobre la Cima
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