Gentrified Food Futures
2023-2025
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Gentrified Food Futures is a design research project that explores how culinary traditions can become instruments of resistance and imagination in the face of urban transformation. The project took two years to complete and was showcased in Abierto Mexicano de Diseño in 2025.
Set in Mexico City’s Cuauhtémoc borough, the project examines how comida corrida—the everyday lunch ritual—can be both a cultural anchor and a lens for understanding aesthetic gentrification.
The project was divided into several stages:
Communal Mapping
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