The lecture will focus on two projects: Botanical Garden in Culiacan, Sinaloa and Pilgrimage Route in Jalisco. Mexico is experiencing a wave of interest in social architecture and public art. Public bodies are willing now to introduce art to public spaces, taking a new social urban approach of ‘making’ cities or sites. The lecture will explore how these two very different projects relate to their immediate context and to social development in Mexico.

Tatiana Bilbao has been an advisor for Urban Projects at the Urban Housing and Development Department of Mexico City. In 2004 she founded mxdf, a research centre, along with architects Derek Dellekamp, Arturo Ortiz and Michel Rojkind. She has been professor of design at the Universidad Iberoamericana, visiting professor at Andres Bello University and a visiting critic at Techknik Munich, MIT and UPenn.
 
See http://www.tatianabilbao.com/