[Music]
we usually tell stories for
share ideas and by accident I what
I did it backwards today I’m going to tell you
stories
and the first one that was surprise I have a
my favorites I think several the
we know it starts like that a long time ago
time I have a galaxy very far away
a child was born
curiously this story of war
of the galaxy looks a lot like the
history of Hondurans and the
Hondurans
just like our era of favorite
we grow with our gaze fixed on
the stars looking for something more yearning
that galactic adventure desperate for
leave home
this was the story that they told me
me and he did not tell me in george lucas ni
a letter to the gringo
the first time I heard this story
it was from a Honduran who told me
you cant do it here
I drew the limits quickly and more
quickie I agree to them because
if here you could not have to look for a
place where if you could then there would be
apply to a scholarship abroad of
mountain he gives me no anger that in
suitcase in hand heart in hand and I said
goodbye and never again my beloved
Honduras
and it seems that this story is very common in
our Latin American countries because
only in Honduras the secretariat of
foreign relations maintains that a 90
percent of Hondurans prefer
live there
and why not me was also part of that
90% was living a happy life without
dependent struggling for good causes
as so many of my
favorite heroes in so many of my
favorite stories I was going to graduate with
honors was going to get a super good
work abroad and because it was not
smart young naive had big
dreams and the limits seemed
disappear
good crisis I came back
and when I did , I would go back to a country that
it seemed to have no happy ending I came back
demotivated with zero reluctance impetus
I felt that my adventure of
hero
in the literature there is a figure of
narrative called deus ex machina
the god from the machine is when a
external element to the narrative is achieved
put in and definitely change the
our hero’s journey as if it were
to fall from heaven naturally the
authors do not like this figure
narrative that rarely resembles
real life things do not fall from the sky
videos ex machina was back to the center
a rainy Friday
I received a call from an architect and
well I do not answer almost do not answer this
call and I will not answer but good
let’s answer him and this architect
He offered a job and I told him
well and he told me that this story plus the
Monday
then I am in the office of nando my
future boss is a Monday morning and
I is explaining the idea behind
back to the center was a platform
digital that was going to promote tegucigalpa and
comayagüela the historic centers of
our country
and this we are going to do with a blog and
social networks publishing articles
photographs videos so that people
go back to the center
let’s change a city like this
nando
ok it’s also a city was not
architect was not a public official
I had grown up with henri fires with more than
a macondo and a bachelor in literature
but I’m going to change a city ok
I think what my boss had understood
that maybe I did not understand a 7 or if at
so I did not need another building
Tegucigalpa did not need another
public official what tegucigalpa
I needed what Honduras needed
they were new history
and if we could discern the
elements of a successful story by
what not to apply those same elements to
the history of a city
there is no magic formula for a good
story why is so beautiful the
literature are all different but if
there are certain things that are repeated and that
make a narrative successful and
the first one is with text
not be able to assess what you do not know from
at first they explained to me this I do not
I knew the historic center of
tegucigalpa as I was going to write had
to be a lot and a lot of research
the Nobel prize in
This year’s literature
and sure
he was buried for four weeks in his house
to write to research and write
the novel the remains of the day closed
of the real world but zero calls
mail the food below the
doors
I did not lock myself in my house but it was
a lot of work because to write
Tegucigalpa had to understand his
context had to understand how this
small town had grown
radically with the arrival of
automobile at the beginning of the 20th century and
like when the city grew its
inhabitants abandoned it we forgot
of the historic center we forget about
heart of the city that was also the
heart of the community
and the whip yes to the bread that I
I found neither with text
it was in a critical state
but it had not always been like that then
I did my best to find the stories
in looking for the stories of 20 30 40
years and the first thing I did was call
my mom
she directed me to my grandmother who
He directed a historian friend who
He sat in his office for three hours
detail me every moment of his career
and so on in eternal coffees on calls with
unknown
it was solidifying this idea of
tegucigalpa and now when I was walking by
the sidewalks of the historic center and looked
the architectural facades I thought
half a century ago my great grandfather on his way to
these streets and maybe I was taking my
Grandpa’s hand and a few years
after maybe my grandfather took my
mom’s hand here my dad walked
here he stopped to wait for the bus
and they were my age and I thought they had the
same concerns that I had the
same passions that I as was his
hero adventure
but the context was not enough the
Architectural facades are beautiful
but their quality is that they are witnesses of
a memory of a city and that brings me
to the second element of a story
successful
his characters
from the beginning we were very clear
that back the center was a platform
to empower citizen voices that
history here can not be made us
shut up
and we had to recover those
voices
how you look at this in real life in the
practice looks like you’re walking
by the pedestrian approaching the
people and telling him to excuse me
can tell your story so that
can post on the blog
and people keep running
super fast away from me is not
if they had no interest
maybe I ‘m dramatizing a bit
but if it was difficult I do not know why the
people did not want to tell the stories
and I was desperate and sweaty in the
historic center I did not want more
then I went to complain to a dining room
that was called good taste
and as I complained with my friend
I can no longer resist the photographer
same as always I felt a hand in the
back
and I turned around
and this is when I met soyapango
know
suyapa had been visiting for more than 20 years
the same room where I was
it was his second family in the center
historic he went every day to eat and
his average clear that I tell him my
story I am a teacher and what more
I want to see is how children come out
go ahead in honduras
suyapa was my first story about
center
for that time we had maybe 10,000
20,000 followers in social networks and I
agreement that he was in a museum and someone
he came and he approached me and said the one who paints
it’s the history of the center and sometimes I have
I’m going to go back and I said if the
people are coming back
I was naive
and also more than telling the story of
suyapa and tell stories
outsiders was empowering to empower
citizen voices and that people
tell their own stories that
write articles on any subject
as long as it had to do with the
center and we were going to publish it and
what emotion that your words are
published
the only problem was that most of
the stories had 10 20 30 years of
age
and this brings me to the third element
indispensable of a good story
the action
we were lucky that in
Tegucigalpa in the historic center
We were living a revolution
culturally there were people operating
since 20 years in the center women
dabbling in the arts museums that
They recovered their identity and space
public improvisation workshops
theater graffiti artists alternative music
violinist in the pedestrian all this
It was there and the only thing that was needed
was to put it together to promote it raise your voice
to announce
and that’s how the return festival was born
the center the idea was to bring all
these master minds in a room
put them to talk define a
12-hour programming that the
families will be parked early
and walk in the streets as they had
done a long time ago and in the afternoon
young people would come for music
and how nice to think that in five or ten
years someone would tell the story of
that Saturday we danced in the park
today our modest initiative counts
with almost 100,000 followers in the networks
social are 100,000 people who follow
and they write our history
it seems that the colorín colorado
but this story is not over
it’s a very long story with many
characters a narrative of years and of
years and we all wrote it
maybe they do not consider themselves writers
I understand the fear that the pen entails
capture your ideas in front of people
in front of an audience with faces that
they are seeing if it’s scary I understand
but I have news for you in this 21st century
with a technological boom and a
democratization of the written word
we are all writers
every time you post a photograph
every time you comment on the status of
your friend every time you like me
a page are you writing a
imaginary
and the imaginary collective the imaginary
of a community is affected by the
imaginary of its members
ironically it is your personal narrative and
the way you decide to tell the day to
day affects the narrative of your city
it sounds like a big responsibility
because it is
and our words matter
the way we decided to tell
our lives matter the verbs that
we use matter an exact week ago
a man stopped me and told me they are
destroying the finlay park so I
he said are destroying the park
they were not destroying the park the
it was true that they were remodeling the
Park
because I knew study because I had
seen the park I had worried and
I went to investigate the office and asked
what’s happening and they explained to me
the context of the park had been
forgotten people were no longer going
Remodel was not known by the context
he knew the characters and they were
activating
but what if this man before
tell me this he took a picture of me
park and published it in their networks
social and what back and put are
destroying the good park naturally
if bolt see this picture he is going to send it
your mom and she’s going to send it to her
grandmother and she is going to send her friend
historian who is going to write a
long chronicle denouncing the
destruction of the park yes and before
we realize we have manufactured the
narrative
false our words matter
let’s change our city
this was the story that my
boss and I liked it more
that the story I had heard
long before the history here does not
can
The truth is that I do not want to be a
character in someone else ‘s story
there are authors who have managed to visit
cities that have turned them into
stories that seem to surpass the
I give you the example of France de
nacho with new york or jorge if his darling
buenos aires
who is going to write san pedro sula
who is going to write my tegucigalpa
who writes my city
it’s time to empower ourselves from the pen that
always but always more powerful than
the sword let’s investigate and know
our contexts we look for leaders and
champions for our causes and after
of all that action we have
we have to change this narrative
Latin American we have to write
better cities thanks
[Applause]
we usually tell stories for
share ideas and by accident I what
I did it backwards today I’m going to tell you
stories
and the first one that was surprise I have a
my favorites I think several the
we know it starts like that a long time ago
time I have a galaxy very far away
a child was born
curiously this story of war
of the galaxy looks a lot like the
history of Hondurans and the
Hondurans
just like our era of favorite
we grow with our gaze fixed on
the stars looking for something more yearning
that galactic adventure desperate for
leave home
this was the story that they told me
me and he did not tell me in george lucas ni
a letter to the gringo
the first time I heard this story
it was from a Honduran who told me
you cant do it here
I drew the limits quickly and more
quickie I agree to them because
if here you could not have to look for a
place where if you could then there would be
apply to a scholarship abroad of
mountain he gives me no anger that in
suitcase in hand heart in hand and I said
goodbye and never again my beloved
Honduras
and it seems that this story is very common in
our Latin American countries because
only in Honduras the secretariat of
foreign relations maintains that a 90
percent of Hondurans prefer
live there
and why not me was also part of that
90% was living a happy life without
dependent struggling for good causes
as so many of my
favorite heroes in so many of my
favorite stories I was going to graduate with
honors was going to get a super good
work abroad and because it was not
smart young naive had big
dreams and the limits seemed
disappear
good crisis I came back
and when I did , I would go back to a country that
it seemed to have no happy ending I came back
demotivated with zero reluctance impetus
I felt that my adventure of
hero
in the literature there is a figure of
narrative called deus ex machina
the god from the machine is when a
external element to the narrative is achieved
put in and definitely change the
our hero’s journey as if it were
to fall from heaven naturally the
authors do not like this figure
narrative that rarely resembles
real life things do not fall from the sky
videos ex machina was back to the center
a rainy Friday
I received a call from an architect and
well I do not answer almost do not answer this
call and I will not answer but good
let’s answer him and this architect
He offered a job and I told him
well and he told me that this story plus the
Monday
then I am in the office of nando my
future boss is a Monday morning and
I is explaining the idea behind
back to the center was a platform
digital that was going to promote tegucigalpa and
comayagüela the historic centers of
our country
and this we are going to do with a blog and
social networks publishing articles
photographs videos so that people
go back to the center
let’s change a city like this
nando
ok it’s also a city was not
architect was not a public official
I had grown up with henri fires with more than
a macondo and a bachelor in literature
but I’m going to change a city ok
I think what my boss had understood
that maybe I did not understand a 7 or if at
so I did not need another building
Tegucigalpa did not need another
public official what tegucigalpa
I needed what Honduras needed
they were new history
and if we could discern the
elements of a successful story by
what not to apply those same elements to
the history of a city
there is no magic formula for a good
story why is so beautiful the
literature are all different but if
there are certain things that are repeated and that
make a narrative successful and
the first one is with text
not be able to assess what you do not know from
at first they explained to me this I do not
I knew the historic center of
tegucigalpa as I was going to write had
to be a lot and a lot of research
the Nobel prize in
This year’s literature
and sure
he was buried for four weeks in his house
to write to research and write
the novel the remains of the day closed
of the real world but zero calls
mail the food below the
doors
I did not lock myself in my house but it was
a lot of work because to write
Tegucigalpa had to understand his
context had to understand how this
small town had grown
radically with the arrival of
automobile at the beginning of the 20th century and
like when the city grew its
inhabitants abandoned it we forgot
of the historic center we forget about
heart of the city that was also the
heart of the community
and the whip yes to the bread that I
I found neither with text
it was in a critical state
but it had not always been like that then
I did my best to find the stories
in looking for the stories of 20 30 40
years and the first thing I did was call
my mom
she directed me to my grandmother who
He directed a historian friend who
He sat in his office for three hours
detail me every moment of his career
and so on in eternal coffees on calls with
unknown
it was solidifying this idea of
tegucigalpa and now when I was walking by
the sidewalks of the historic center and looked
the architectural facades I thought
half a century ago my great grandfather on his way to
these streets and maybe I was taking my
Grandpa’s hand and a few years
after maybe my grandfather took my
mom’s hand here my dad walked
here he stopped to wait for the bus
and they were my age and I thought they had the
same concerns that I had the
same passions that I as was his
hero adventure
but the context was not enough the
Architectural facades are beautiful
but their quality is that they are witnesses of
a memory of a city and that brings me
to the second element of a story
successful
his characters
from the beginning we were very clear
that back the center was a platform
to empower citizen voices that
history here can not be made us
shut up
and we had to recover those
voices
how you look at this in real life in the
practice looks like you’re walking
by the pedestrian approaching the
people and telling him to excuse me
can tell your story so that
can post on the blog
and people keep running
super fast away from me is not
if they had no interest
maybe I ‘m dramatizing a bit
but if it was difficult I do not know why the
people did not want to tell the stories
and I was desperate and sweaty in the
historic center I did not want more
then I went to complain to a dining room
that was called good taste
and as I complained with my friend
I can no longer resist the photographer
same as always I felt a hand in the
back
and I turned around
and this is when I met soyapango
know
suyapa had been visiting for more than 20 years
the same room where I was
it was his second family in the center
historic he went every day to eat and
his average clear that I tell him my
story I am a teacher and what more
I want to see is how children come out
go ahead in honduras
suyapa was my first story about
center
for that time we had maybe 10,000
20,000 followers in social networks and I
agreement that he was in a museum and someone
he came and he approached me and said the one who paints
it’s the history of the center and sometimes I have
I’m going to go back and I said if the
people are coming back
I was naive
and also more than telling the story of
suyapa and tell stories
outsiders was empowering to empower
citizen voices and that people
tell their own stories that
write articles on any subject
as long as it had to do with the
center and we were going to publish it and
what emotion that your words are
published
the only problem was that most of
the stories had 10 20 30 years of
age
and this brings me to the third element
indispensable of a good story
the action
we were lucky that in
Tegucigalpa in the historic center
We were living a revolution
culturally there were people operating
since 20 years in the center women
dabbling in the arts museums that
They recovered their identity and space
public improvisation workshops
theater graffiti artists alternative music
violinist in the pedestrian all this
It was there and the only thing that was needed
was to put it together to promote it raise your voice
to announce
and that’s how the return festival was born
the center the idea was to bring all
these master minds in a room
put them to talk define a
12-hour programming that the
families will be parked early
and walk in the streets as they had
done a long time ago and in the afternoon
young people would come for music
and how nice to think that in five or ten
years someone would tell the story of
that Saturday we danced in the park
today our modest initiative counts
with almost 100,000 followers in the networks
social are 100,000 people who follow
and they write our history
it seems that the colorín colorado
but this story is not over
it’s a very long story with many
characters a narrative of years and of
years and we all wrote it
maybe they do not consider themselves writers
I understand the fear that the pen entails
capture your ideas in front of people
in front of an audience with faces that
they are seeing if it’s scary I understand
but I have news for you in this 21st century
with a technological boom and a
democratization of the written word
we are all writers
every time you post a photograph
every time you comment on the status of
your friend every time you like me
a page are you writing a
imaginary
and the imaginary collective the imaginary
of a community is affected by the
imaginary of its members
ironically it is your personal narrative and
the way you decide to tell the day to
day affects the narrative of your city
it sounds like a big responsibility
because it is
and our words matter
the way we decided to tell
our lives matter the verbs that
we use matter an exact week ago
a man stopped me and told me they are
destroying the finlay park so I
he said are destroying the park
they were not destroying the park the
it was true that they were remodeling the
Park
because I knew study because I had
seen the park I had worried and
I went to investigate the office and asked
what’s happening and they explained to me
the context of the park had been
forgotten people were no longer going
Remodel was not known by the context
he knew the characters and they were
activating
but what if this man before
tell me this he took a picture of me
park and published it in their networks
social and what back and put are
destroying the good park naturally
if bolt see this picture he is going to send it
your mom and she’s going to send it to her
grandmother and she is going to send her friend
historian who is going to write a
long chronicle denouncing the
destruction of the park yes and before
we realize we have manufactured the
narrative
false our words matter
let’s change our city
this was the story that my
boss and I liked it more
that the story I had heard
long before the history here does not
can
The truth is that I do not want to be a
character in someone else ‘s story
there are authors who have managed to visit
cities that have turned them into
stories that seem to surpass the
I give you the example of France de
nacho with new york or jorge if his darling
buenos aires
who is going to write san pedro sula
who is going to write my tegucigalpa
who writes my city
it’s time to empower ourselves from the pen that
always but always more powerful than
the sword let’s investigate and know
our contexts we look for leaders and
champions for our causes and after
of all that action we have
we have to change this narrative
Latin American we have to write
better cities thanks
[Applause]
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