Tenancingo Square Mediascape Competition, arch out loud design contest Mexico, Architect
Tenancingo Square Mediascape Competition
Human Trafficking Design Contest, Mexico: call to designers to reimagine a square
Mar 5, 2017
Tenancingo Square Mediascape Contest – arch out loud competition
HUMAN TRAFFICKING – Tenancingo Square Mediascape Competition
Architectural research initiative arch out loud are hosting a competition addressing human trafficking and calling on designers to reimagine the square of Tenancingo Municipality, Mexico where this issue is prevalent.
Encompassing both labor and sex, human trafficking denies basic freedoms and degrades life to mere commodification. Traffickers prey on vulnerable populations, employing a multitude of sophisticated strategies to lure or coerce individuals into lives of forced service. An eradication of trafficking demands stringent and absolute global enforcement of human rights. A s olution f urther e ntails concentrated effort to reform areas where illicit behaviors have become normalized.
In source communities, such as Tenancingo Municipality, Mexico, human trafficking has become industry, sustaining both the wealth of its citizens and international networks of illegal human exchange. Positioning itself in such a context, arch out loud seeks to investigate architecture?s capacity to challenge entrenched exploitation.
arch out loud challenges designers to reimagine the town square of Tenancingo, Mexico in response...