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NEWS

We invite you to participate in the 5th episode of Urban Dialogues, coordinated by Rob Roggema; and with the participation of the Co-Director of El Cielo, Surella Segú. This month we will address the topic of urban heating, and how we can adapt our cities to extreme heat and drought.

Reserve your place now and be part of the change!

🔗 To participate, register: https://bit.ly/UrbanDialoguesS1E5
🗓 Wednesday August 30; 09:00 a.m. (Central time).

Do not miss the interview with Surella Segú, Co Director of El Cielo, by @lexpressfr :
Extreme heat: the "Chief Heat Officers" at the head of the cities (Chaleurs extrêmes : les "Chief Heat Officers" au chevet des villes)
A growing number of cities are appointing managers responsible for unifying heat wave response.

“In terms of housing, Mexico City and Lima share a lot and these exchanges of knowledge are very important. I think we have very similar realities: the need for social housing, support for housing, support for climate change issues, the need to recover our nature”.

Surella Segú, Co-Director of El Cielo and Chief Heat Officer of Monterrey, at LIMAPOLIS 2023, by @arquitectura.pucp in alliance with the XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.

Surella Segú, Co-Director of El Cielo and Chief Heat Officer of Monterrey, presented at the LIMAPOLIS 2023 International Workshop, organized by @arquitectura.pucp
Structured with nine lines of action with groups led by teachers of recognized national and international trajectory to develop proposals in a process of dialogue and participation with users and having grassroots organizations and institutions as strategic partners.
Each line of action with an associated urban fabric, Surella directed the RECYCLING | Transformation and operations group, together with the teachers Sharif Kahatt and Marta Morelli, having as allies the NEIGHBORS OF UV3, in Neighborhood Unit No. 3 (UV3 ), Cercado de Lima.

Do not miss the new participation of Armando Hashimoto and Surella Segú, co-founders and co-directors of El Cielo: Which collectivity? Social housing and representativeness in Mexico.
Now available in the special edition N°18 of PLOT, Collective Housing Inventory.
Find it at https://revistaplot.com/producto/especial-no-18/

Thanks to @revistaplot

SETI Public Talks 2022.
“Urban dynamics in Monterrey”
Speaker: Nélida Escobedo (C + Lab TEC de Monterrey)

November 7, 2022. 3:15 PM CT via Zoom

invitations by DM

We invite you to the panel “How to govern a city on rails and its millions of inhabitants? “ where our Co-Director and Chief Heat Officer (CHO), Surella Segú, will be participating, the appointment is at the Museum of Mexican History on October 19. Free entry.

"Chief Heat Officers: Urbanism and Climate Change”
Speaker: Surella Segú (CHO, Monterrey, Mexico)
10/03/2022; 2:30 PM CST via Zoom.

Access link via DM @intersticios.fa

We share with you the Harvard GSD + Monterrey's Tech Workshop, in which the Co-Director of El Cielo and Monterrey’s Chief Heat Officer, Surella Segú, who is Loeb Fellow '18 Harvard GSD, participated.

Asume Surella Segú como primera directora de Chief Heat Officers en Monterrey

Monterrey, Mexico is the latest city to employ a full-time Chief Heat Officer

Monterrey, Mexico is the latest city to employ a full-time Chief Heat Officer

Last month
@ArshtRock
joined
@MtyGob
in Monterrey 🇲🇽 to announce
@SurellaSegu
as the 5th #ChiefHeatOfficer!

This June 30, the Participatory Urban Platform will be launched with international experiences from Spain, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. On behalf of Mexico, Surella Segú and Armando Hashimoto, Co-Directors of El Cielo, will be presented.

Join us! This activity will be virtual and free, you can sign up at the following link: https://bit.ly/3OzrrNF

Tomorrow is the opening of the exhibition <<commun, une architecture avec les habitants>>, in which The Opportunity of Scarcity is presented.

´Commun´ brings together elements of two exhibitions held in recent years around the themes of the collective city and the communities that are active in its configuration outside of mainstream, normalized or commercial frameworks: David Brown´s contribution to the Biennale of Architecture in Chicago in 2021 and Christophe Hutin's participation in the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale the same year.

It will take place from Thursday 23 June and will continue until Sunday 18 September 2022 at Arc en rêve center d'architecture.

Do not miss the interview with Surella Segú, Chief Heat Officer, in Expansión magazine.

The master conference between Surella Segú and Alejandro Echeverri "SUSTAINABILITY FROM A SOCIO-POLITICAL AND TERRITORIAL PERSPECTIVE", moderated by Alfredo Hidalgo, on behalf of ITESM and ASINEA, will take place on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 from 12:30 to 14:30.

ITESM Campus Monterrey.

Information and registration:
https://asinea106tec.mx/index.php/agenda/

The Mayor of Monterrey, Mexico, Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, created an office that will focus on extreme heat and appointed Surella Segú to the role of Chief Heat Officer (CHO) in partnership with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock).

Ms. Surella Segú – the first to hold the CHO position in Mexico and Central America– joins a global coalition of city leaders and experts committed to reducing the growing threat of extreme urban heat for vulnerable people. The appointment also marks Monterrey’s initiation into City Champions for Heat Action (CCHA), a cornerstone initiative led by Arsht-Rock.

The new magazine Notes C2.0 is now available, with the participation of El Cielo.

ARCHITECTURE

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Global Loeb Fellowship Virtual Tour - Mexico City

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