Hacemos la Ciudad featured in Texas Architect

““Hacemos La Ciudad encourages residents to make their city by realizing how the built world impacts them and finding ways they can participate in decision-making processes. While the model shows locals the impact of their input, the long-term vision of the project is a more resident-led future.””

— Jesse Miller

A crowd gathers around a model made of painted clay buildings, hand-drawn street grids, pieces of yarn, and other chucherias (knick-knacks) depicting a future downtown Brownsville, Texas, and its connection to Matamoros, Mexico. It’s the result of months of dialogues, bike rides, and making workshops led by Las Imaginistas, an art collective. Their project, Hacemos La Ciudad (We Make the City), is a civic reimagining of Brownsville.