Santiago Mota

Santiago Mota is a designer, researcher, and consultant based in Mexico City. In 2012, he co-founded the CASA Research and Design Group at UNAM to engage real world issues regarding the contemporary city. He has also worked as a project manager for Soma Architects in New York, and as a project architect at DMP Arquitectura in Mexico City. He is interested in developing a new design-research practice by challenging widespread notions regarding energy, sustainability, and resiliency, and following the MDE program, received a Harvard Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative Fellowship.