The Beautiful Policy Podcast

Imagine if the governance of cities was designed by everyone who lives, works, loves, plays and travels through them daily? Imagine if we embraced the right that inhabitants of our cities have to shape them into fully liveable ecosystems?

In this episode Jessica Horn speaks with Gabriella Gómez Mont, the pioneering Chief Creative Officer for Mexico City. Gabriella speaks about the team that she led over a five year period, ‘hacking’ everything from road safety to the Uber/ taxi conflict, and even figuring out a way to crowdsource the development of Mexico City’s constitution. It's a masterclass in applying fierce imagination to concrete questions of daily life in a megacity, and proof of the value of creative, multi-disciplinary and ground-up thinking in urban governance.

Gabriella Gómez-Mont is an award winning thinker on reimagining cities. A journalist, artist and filmmaker, Gabriella was appointed in 2013 as the first Chief Creative Officer for Mexico City, overseeing the Laboritorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory of the City), a creative think tank within the Mexico City government.She has been a Yale World Fellow, MIT Director’s Fellow, a GeorgeTown University Global Cities Initiative Visiting Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, an Institute for the Future Fellow. She is the founder of Experimentalista - a nomadic creative agency focused on cities.

More on Gabriella:

• Experimentalista website
• Gabriella Gómez-Mont: Right to the City.Ted X Danubia, 2023
• Gabriella Gómez-Mont: "What we cannot imagine, we cannot put into practice.”

The Beautiful Policy Podcast team

• Production: The LAM Sisterhood
• Studio: Aga Khan University’s Graduate School of Media and Communications, Nairobi.
• Team Lead: Anne Moraa
• Producer: Neddy Lusimbo
• Sound Engineer: Wambui Njuguna assisted by Marcus Garvey Kariuki
• Visual Artist: Chela Yego
• Audience Strategy: Melissa Mbugua

Made with support from the Moleskine Foundation.

Meet the host Jessica Horn as she introduces The Beautiful Policy Podcast. Jessica is an (East)African feminist strategist, futurist and award winning poet who has spent a quarter century in the work of justice and societal transformation in Africa and around the world.

In this podcast she is in dialogue with some of the most generous and luminous policy trailblazers that she has encountered on that journey globally. Expect polymaths, mavericks and surprising back stories on major wins for people and planet. If you need affirmation that we can remake the world, then this podcast is for you!

The Beautiful Policy Podcast team:

• Production: The LAM Sisterhood
• Studio: Aga Khan University’s Graduate School of Media and Communications, Nairobi.
• Team Lead: Anne Moraa
• Producer: Neddy Lusimbo
• Sound Engineer: Wambui Njuguna assisted by Marcus Garvey Kariuki
• Visual Artist: Chela Yego
• Audience Strategy: Melissa Mbugua

Made with support from the Moleskine Foundation.