CDMX resilient code: Water commons in Mexico City

Abstract

Using Mexico City (CDMX) as a paradigmatic example of seriously unbalanced water regimes, our project Resilient Code helps strengthen and communicate CDMX's government implementation efforts toward risk reduction and water resilience in marginal communities. Our project does so by bridging otherwise separate agents in the government towards a common goal: equitable resilience. Resilient Code provides design solutions that link the social infrastructure of PILARES (a network of 300 vocational schools distributed throughout the city) to CDMX's environmental and risk reduction initiatives, to promote water commoning among citizens. This strategic program of soft-bottom up infrastructural solutions began with “water resilience” as a Pilot to enhance public space throughout underserved barrios as a network of “water-commons. ¨ Resilient Code is designed to implement such solutions and reduce environmental risks by complementing socio-economic programs, and to foster the “water-commons” network as result. Resilient Code is socialized through an action driven participatory game-based workshop, and through an online Atlas of Risk Reduction.