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EPIC at UN:Winter Youth Assembly
by María Gabriela González Rausell [UPM] & Alejandra Gómez Bolívar [UPM] María Gabriela González R. and Alejandra Gómez B. at the UN Youth Assembly Winter 2018. Photo: EPIC.
EPIC is a partnership created from a shared desire to make positive social change in cities through clever, inclusive design and active civic participation. It was founded by Alejandra Gómez B. and Maria Gabriela Gonzalez Rausell in 2017, whose experience in architecture and placemaking has taken place in contexts as diverse as Caracas, San José, Medellín, Bogotá, New York City and Philadelphia. Alejandra is a proud Colombian architect, highly interested in community service and improvement in quality of life in actual cities. At present, she is living in Philadelphia after completing her Master’s Degree in Urban Placemaking and Management at Pratt Institute in New York City.
During the past years, Alejandra has had the opportunity of traveling, working, and studying in different countries around the world learning from different cultures, people, and experiences. Her main goal as a young professional is to enlarge this multicultural knowledge and giving as much as she can to create new alternatives to make more equitable and inclusive cities through community based plans and social participation. Maria Gabriela is an architect, researcher, and cofounder of EPIC. A native Venezuelan, she is passionate about social and humanitarian causes, and has special interest in the relationship between architecture, public
