. - gabriella gomez-mont is the director and cofounder of laboratorio para la ciudad, the laboratoryr the city. mexico city's official creative and experimental think tank. and trust me. she isn't afraid of facing urban challenges head-on. her staff of 20 is very diverse. half of them come from disciplines you'd expect: geographers, data analysts, social scientists. the other half, however, comes from the creative world. they're writers, filmmakers, artists. and to them, creativity is a powerful tool. if you ask me what the laboratory specializes in, because we've got a wide agenda, from mobility to experimenting democracy, i think we specialize in the gaps, like what are the conversations that are not being had, the things that are not being said, the people that are not included in the conversations, the disciplines, the framings, the points of view that have not necessarily been part of policy-making and city-making from within the government. one of the things that i find really intriguing about mexico city, not only for ourselves but actually for the rest of the world, is that w