Sustainable Territorial Development

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Climate Justice through Design
Leader: Dr. Carlos Cobreros (within the Tecnológico de Monterrey). The global leader of the project is Peter Christensen from Rochester University.
Funder: WUN Research Development Fund

The project aims to explore the variety of meanings of climate justice by design in different climatic, socioeconomic, geological, and cultural contexts. The project seeks outcomes that inform both the local and the universal. The project will focus on three locations synchronously: Querétaro, Leeds, and Auckland, home to three of our five partner institutions.

Tecnológico de Monterrey will enjoy the benefits of this fund along with the University of Rochester (USA), the lead university in the proposal, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), University of Auckland (New Zealand), and University of Leeds (UK).

Design for Vulnerable.
Leader: Dr. Emanuele Giorgi
Funder: Challenge-Based Research Funding Program (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

“Design for Vulnerables” is part of a wider research activities implemented along the last years, within an international research network, mainly between Mexico, Italy and China, whose focus is to understand the role of community dimension in developing sustainable territories. To understand the phenomena that characterize our territories is a priority: contemporary social and environmental crisis are challenging humanity, exposing mainly the most vulnerable people to uncertainties. Compromised with sustainable territorial development, Tecnológico de Monterrey in Chihuahua started to work in vulnerable communities since several years, aiming to propose solutions and ideas for their necessities. Since these realities are becoming more and more complex, the issue that Design for Vulnerables aims to understand is “how can design contribute to empower vulnerable communities in the next few years?”.

Within the framework of the Design for Vulnerables project, led by Dr. Emanuele Giorgi, funds were granted for the creation of a Participatory Socioecological Observatory (OPSE), from the Call for Proposals for the International Network for the Sustainability of Arid Zones (RISZA, https://risza.mx/). The aim of the OPSE is to create and develop the necessary conditions to understand interdisciplinary and subsequently transdisciplinary emerging changes and opportunities that are generated in the transformation of the rural and urban environment of the Municipality of Chihuahua that define the present and future sustainability of these semi-arid environments, to generate a learning space based on dialogue, reflection, research and action. To this end, it is necessary (1) to bring science, technology and design closer to the communities of Paso del Norte and Nuevas Delicias; (2) to raise awareness among young people and women about the importance of their contribution to sustainable development at a local level; (3) to co-generate technical-scientific information contextualized to Paso del Norte and Nuevas Delicias for decision making in the community.

Alternative circulations? Situating policy formulation, decoloniality and urban models in Latin American cities.
Leader: Dr. Ryan Andres Whitney
Funder: Urban Studies Foundation

The mobility and circulation of knowledge, policies, and urban models has been an important agenda that has shaped urban studies over the last decade. Scholars have highlighted the territorial and relational dimensions that shape urban policies, the role of multiple mobile actors in the circulation of urban policies and models, and the politics that influence the translation, adaptation, and contestation of ‘best practices’. Recently, criticism has been directed at the predominant focus on urban policy models circulating in hegemonic networks with less attention paid to the politics of trial and error in mobilising knowledge, including the role of “alternative” actors, circuits, and geographies. Through expanding frontiers of knowledge, this project addresses the broader actors, circuits, and geographies involved in the circulation and mobility of alternative and progressive policies and urban models in and from Latin America. We will promote a theoretical dialogue between policy mobility literature, southern urbanism, assemblage theory, and Latin American decolonial thinking to debate the best way to territorialize these models. The goal is to theorise the adoption, resistance, and creation of urban models from and within the global South, understanding the role of various actors in the larger circulation of urbanism models.

Walking to School in Latin America - children, equity and the peripheries of Mexico City, Medellin and Recife
Leader: Aleksandra Krstikj, en colaboración con URBAM EAFIT y oficina de resiliencia PROMORAR Recife
Funder: The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF)

Although walking trips are ubiquitous in Latin America, we know very little about their behavior and the conditions in which they take place. Even less is known about the equity of walking trips and children, despite the fact that they make up the majority of walking trips in Latin America. The aim of this study is an empirical examination of walking to school in the urban peripheries of Latin American cities. It focuses on the collection of qualitative data at the meso/micro scale through field surveys and questionnaires. It will leverage the comparative empirical work and experiences of the team's academics and local governments in three different cities: Medellín (Colombia), Recife (Brazil) and Mexico City (CDMX, Mexico). The purpose is multiple: 1) to explore the qualitative and equity aspects of walking in Latin American cities, offering a vision of walking environments throughout the region and contributing to the fields of urban planning, transportation planning, policy studies and urban design; 2) to change the mindset and promote walking as a healthy, affordable, environmentally friendly and efficient mode of transport; 3) to enable communities and local leaders to participate in a meaningful collective reimagining of walking experiences. The added value of this project is to create knowledge and promote equity in walking for children throughout Latin America.

Living Lab: Nature-based solutions for transition to a water sensitive campus.
Leader: Rubén Garnica Monroy en colaboración con Viviana Barquero, Diana García y Rodrigo Pantoja
Funder: Ruta Azul Challenge. Tecnológico de Monterrey

The proposal aims to design a Strategic Plan for a Water-Sensitive Campus in Querétaro, aligned with the institution's sustainability objectives. The plan integrates Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Renewable Energy Solutions (RES) to reduce water consumption while generating clean energy. The four main ideas of the proposal:
      • Strategic Plan for Water-Sensitive Campus,
      • Integration of nature-based solutions,
      • Integration of Renewable Energies,
      • Live laboratory approach
In general, the proposal seeks to establish a replicable model for water-sensitive campuses both within and outside the institution, contributing to global sustainability efforts, particularly in Latin America and the Global South.