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Lo contrario a inseguridad es convivencia | Sergio Restrepo | TEDxMedellin


[Music]
good afternoon
there is an undeniable reality we are in a
very important territory that proves the
name of that conference the name of
this conference is the opposite
insecurity is coexistence
this place moravia a place that for
many decades it was a place of conflict
the dump of medellin in this
territory
there were some of those calls
red cures cures that raised that his
poor people were the poor
about six years ago they made me one
phone call
they asked me to build
a strategic plan for a place a
place that I had already visited so many
times and the theater pablo tobón
I went to the theater Pablo Tobón and found
a place that did not know a place to which
had gone many times but in this
moment has not found a place
absolutely different
I went on a different schedule than the one
I was usually going to Pablo all
when there was a work that I had seen
a lot of artists there are when
I arrived I found a fence a fence very
strong a grate placed a grate very
elaborated and something something very strange
I started to feel I should say smell but
I was not seeing only that it was a
pain that touched me and I get very
inside I entered the theater pablo tobón
I opened the grille neftalí character
beautiful that I would like to talk about
very much but I do not have time and when
I entered the theater Pablo everything went to
speak with someone
that person was posing a challenge
very important to build a plan
strategic to a place that is one of
the most important places of the
history of Medellin
that moment for me was
the complex because I was listening
that person and I did not hear what he said
because one minute before
an instant before an odor had
possessed and brought me some memories that I
I still did not know what they were
I did not identify them but at that moment
in which the smell was taking me all
the senses
I through the grate the grate opened
When the gate opened, there were two
very young girls a sleepy and the
another with wide eyes
in that instant she injected herself with a
very special sound a dose of heroin
I saw as a beauty that left a
body a very beautiful woman very young
but with a terrible sloppiness is
had gone with the spirit or the soul that
body was abandoned from a force
vital of a little the skin lining the
skull a very big eyes
sunk in the in the face and a look
very lost between and I started to hear the
person to him in rubble I could not
understand him nothing
That same day I accepted the challenge but
terrible things happened
that girl got overdose
heroin finish the hospital did not die in
the street lying on a fence did not die
lying on the floor and died in bed
a hospital with his mother’s hand but
the grate was there when that happened
terrible event the death that
girl
it came to me completely on the
whole memory of the smell that was
absorbing was a smell of better in a
you will wonder why better in
to better in a is for me the smell of
larrea
when I was very young I grew up in a
neighborhood of envigado in the neighborhood meza in
the same place where it was created and raised
the poster of Medellín a few blocks away
of the business that was called the squadron and
one of my best friends ended up in prison
in the jail of bellavista
I went to visit him and the memory more
strong that I have today because I do not
I remembered
is the smell better in the veterinary
they use to wash the whole jail the
day the visit because it reduces
possibilities of infection
but also the smell of veterinary medicine
which is very strong and very penetrating
hides another large amount of odors
I went to jail and that smell was
very in ii few months very few
months after that I went to visit a
friend to the bomboná battalion in good
airs and the iva swearing flag was very
difficult to enter almost not so much
almost as hard as entrance bellavista
and the whole prison or the veterinary two
enclosing places two places of Mayan
two very complex places
they had that memory stored in me
memory the theater pablo tobón smelled
better in a had a closed gate and
there was a girl who were killing each other
at the door the name we gave to
strategic plan pablo tobón theater
It is a cultural center of doors
open and I accepted the challenge of doing that
strategic plan with a single condition
the grate opens opens every day and
here you can enter the whole world
the system was very complex because the
second decision that I took was there’s no
vigilantes and there are no weapons
we eliminate all surveillance concept
it lasts and we generate a process
to take the theater to the street
we turn every bit the stage
from the theater pablo tobón that we removed
because it had deteriorated because of
humidity of the building we convert every
one of them at a coffee table
inspired by the history of the cafes
that definitely become the
most important cultural centers of
our history of a place like
cave left july mario gabriel
Garcia Marquez Cepeda Samudio came out
the most interesting characters but the
windsor or miami or odiel la
Bastilla even from Calf is current
as Versailles have left the most
great characters of the literature of
the economy and if also of politics
a coffee that we take to the street and we take
a determination I do not have to confess
many of you know it to make a
contravention
we take a gazebo in a gazebo
for cars and we turned it into a gazebo
for pedestrians
We put tables we took chairs we put
music we put literature and we started
invite the most important characters
that we could contact and what
We take to converse on the street in a
event that city Monday that a
purpose we decided to put the same
name of this talk to this next
City Mondays and we will do it in
seven cities simultaneously three
countries
was born there and we started talking about
he and when we take the street happens
something very special
the people that are there make the place more
friendly and we did not need surveillance not
we needed fences but we still had the
smell and me the smell did not let me have
peace take a determination and was to do
an action on all the walls of the
pablo tobón theater we design a virgin
which is like the local panopticon a
Virgin Maria Help of course
with the child charged and must
we put a text that said why I
you have abandoned we made another virgin and
she said will make me here is sin and we
we went to hit the virgins with a lot
respect for the height where people urinate
and at the height where you have the face
the people when you crouch you know
what and what happens a very rare thing happened
an immense debate but the smell of
veterinary disappeared and a
wonderful thing
and it’s that those characters that are like
all of you and me street dwellers
they started to enter the theater and
beautiful women appeared
with a nickel or with a key
they knelt where we used to shit
pluck the virgins to remove those that
we had stuck them with a mixture of
paste and from akrón to one thing almost
impossible to remove and with the coin
they started to take away the virgins and you and
I took my currency energy removes them with
them and I told him why they hit these
living is the height for people to
niece and me but people are not
urinating yes but but the good is that
respect it and a very debate took place
interesting and I in act of redress
I proposed that we do something and I
they proposed that we be a rosary
but I told them I proposed that
let’s make a meeting and the means to
that to weave and a group of
weavers that became the best
guard a very powerful guard and
strong theater pablo tobón and when
people arrived at the theater pablo tobón
there was no longer a juliá
veterinary found a ladies the
the most beautiful of the world the most adorable
of the world
having a little drink sometimes weaving
weaving and from there arose a
idea that is
let’s take the whole street we made
beach day and we started to look in
Internet
we already have access to the world one
window to get out and we started
see references from around the world and mold
There is a street in Portugal where the
they fill with colorful umbrellas to
buy umbrellas
we all go for umbrellas tables
umbrellas in addition there was a kind of
very beautiful symbol of our work and
we said in paris
The whole street next to the river is filled
of sand in the summer now will not be seen
works always remove the cars from there
it fills it with sand and people go to the
Beach
that place is called the beach because
below is the santa santa creek and in
that bend the broken one left the sand and
people were going to his side and we
we raised a thing that was called days of
Beach
we did a systematic work and
we hire two different organizations
to measure what happened on beach days and
on that beach day
we made some hard statistics and
formal measurement and contrast and
some alternate
we started measuring for example to measure
for example how many times people
took out the cell phone in the public space
before beach day on beach day and
after beach days
we started to tell me people were going to
ATM and when I was
typing the keys
how many times do you look back
or if people counted the money that they
gave to the ATM and how
I did before and after and they gave us the
wonderful data
they gave us a very very relationship
interesting and that is in that logic
we found some very very possibilities
very interesting
and is that when people feel
accompanied and not monitored
is very much much happier and that
possibility of being happier makes you
people
living together was like a very
clear and very strong and is that if we
we treat people like animals like
animals will behave hired for
that day at the beach a special guard the
Mayor sent us this I’m going to
put here and we gave it back
we said we do not need all this guard
It wont be necesary
we hire our own
guard those guys are heroes those
guys are in high view when the
army is not able to climb home
art
we said if they are capable of
face what happens in high view
they protect us here and the ladies
that weaves and what we did was that
we turn that gazebo into the gazebo
of life that gazebo they have here
river is the gazebo that was facing
the way of the theater pablo tobón with a
gate closed and we become
this a gazebo full of life a
gazebo full of people a gazebo without
weapons or vigilantes and we managed to make
we removed the car at least
less for 40 days and we play to that
We had a beach in Medellin and that
place was wonderful, beautiful place
guarded by these gentlemen those gentlemen
managed to lower the level of thefts of the
avenue the beach in more than a 73 by
hundred and it was a heroic act
we did a task of breaking the pavement
we ask you to stop a couple of artists
of Medellín that will take us the bridge
primordial that was under the
pavement that was the bridge that
we use to cross the avenue the
beach they painted him in anamorphic and all
the people went to be able to take pictures there and
we dream that this happened that you
come in that image
we could be together are laughing dream and
be happy city mondays that do
I mentioned them in that you join the city
that still exist were the
opposing parties found the farc and
the uribismo in the same table was found
to the government of saints and uribism and
they found each one of the actors of
this city that were definitely
there and all the
candidates for mayor and a large
part of the candidates for the presidency
what we did can be repeated today
we are in the task of repeating it so many
as many times as we can
they invited us to a very special project
to inhabit a place called the
cloister the space where the
education and culture project
antioquia and we are going to turn it into a
magic open place full of life a
place where we can enter and armhole and
leave without any worry
a place where the terrace will be like
a piece of street and the plaza outside the
plazuela san ignacio
it will be like a piece of classroom of our
draft
in that project the cloister with fame
let’s try to apply what happened
the formula that worked for us to live together
and be happy
so that makes us live better
we are completely sure that that
phrase that medellín have repeated several
characters that the green city repeats
Mondays of the city that repeats it
some former secretaries of culture
citizen as melguizo and repeats the
people here very close in our people
that the opposite insecurity is
coexistence is a powerful weapon for
let’s be together
and live better
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