Museum of Protest
2017
Collaboration w/ Luis Gabriel Anaya
ITESM Final Project
Honorary Mention
Jury / Jimena Gortari, Francisca Pulido, Paola Aguirre, and David Campos
San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico
85,000 sqft
The Museum of Protest is a museum of contemporary art that was conceived from a San Miguel de Allende that was part of the fight for the Independence of Mexico. It arises from an active society that sought to defend their rights, and that today has a Social Lag Index higher than the average in Mexico.
This project provides a meeting point that fosters urban engagement so that people become aware of their civil rights and their right to the city. It understands protest as a fundamental part of the urban revolution that helps reinvent the urban dynamics. Protest is an important initiative to heal systemic wounds and design for advocacy.
The Museum of Protest is a necessary place to rescue man as the main protagonist of the city that he himself has built, a public place to face the constant privatization of spaces. It seeks to create a meeting stage to say what is not being seen or heard. A habitat where protest facilitates the weaving of social relations.
Design Process
Access Plan
The right to protest is not just another right. It ensures that even the rights that are at risk remain alive. It must be the first one, generating new and preserving the existing.
Section A
Section B
Section C
We live in the outcome of constant fights, in a regenerative cycle of decay and growth. From each resolution new catalysts emerge and, in this constant revolution of stages, the protest is indispensable.
light study / Catalyst Room
Catalyst Room
light study / Conspiracy Room
Conspiracy Room
light study / Protest Space & Resolution Room
Protest Space
Resolution Room