[Music]
In Yucatan, the bishop entered next to the
deepest wisdom heard in the air
when the first Maya wrote down scoring
the trembling of the river the science of pollen
the laws of the hive
the secret of the green the language of
the secret stars of the day and the
night
the bishop raised his arm and burned in the
Place the books making smoke
old leaves worn by time
dark and smoke does not return from heaven
in this poem neruda speaks to us of the
burning of the Mayan codices the year 1562
by Bishop Diego de Landa and the
crisis that means the loss of these
knowledge
nowadays more than 500 years later
we are living a similar crisis but
he is not a bishop who sent books but
that we are and there are no books
a group of people that still
they preserve their ancestral knowledge
acquired by generations here in
chile very close to here two hours from
santiago so it’s not up to us he attacked the
wonderful place
I wanted to live with them to accompany me to
this place in the hills arrived I hope
deck of leg waters of vol 2 a
visit Mrs. Maria her kitchen and her
loom
[Music]
It is a hidden place among the hills
of the coastal mountain range where the
people still inhabit stone houses
with thatched roofs
raise animals that enclose in corals
of viral
the water runs along the same slopes as
when I ran on stone channels to
arranging fields potato maize and beans
these people still remember the
true names of pastures plants e
insects
[Music]
they know at what times you can cut a
tree to make a plow or to make
a beam
they know to what precise part of the forest
resort to take out an herb when
something hurts
and so it could be all afternoon
enumerating the knowledge of these
people who live in this hidden place
of modernity among the hills of
the mountain range of the coast
this knowledge
and this way of inhabiting the environment
being part of it and respecting what
is what we call ancestral culture
in the central zone of chile
the most populated place in our country
where is that ancestral knowledge
where are the laws of the hive that
Neruda speaks to us
where is that knowledge acquired in
the silence of day and night
it’s almost gone
then they are thousands of years of
observation from the first
inhabitants of this geography who were
accumulating this knowledge and
knowledge experiences that are not
in any book or wikipedia or
internet that are losing
if there were six families left when I arrived
for the first time to this place almost
four years today there are only three left
that what we are experiencing is a
crisis today
all this knowledge these kitchens
where women cook their tortillas
buried in the ash
they are going to be those smoke and smoke
as Neruda says it does not come back from heaven
they feel the same pain as me
I tell you that this is going to be lost come
that their children taught themselves did with a
culture that they no longer want to live isolated
on a hill that the system takes to
another place to study another kind of
knowledge reach the people
it dazzles
and they do not return
[Music]
however where is the hope not
it’s so sad is that this knowledge
are transmitted from generation to
generation that is the essence of these
knowledge this is how they have lasted
how they have endured through the
generations then they the greatest
that still keep these with this
wisdom they see that someone arrives
question that blooms that or why
serves this herb or when I can cut
a tree to make a beam they
they take pride in their own and they want it
transmit know they are the last
bastion that the baton of the post what
they have them and they have to
deliver someone that way I take
the cane that by the way is called
witness and I take charge of being the
witness to note of record of filming
to draw from sitting down to drink mate and
ask the relevant question and wait
the answer
in my case of architecture its way
to build and to live in a place
but most importantly his way of
inhabit an environment a place during
generations without destroying it in harmony
with nature
I wanted to tell you as an experience
within the investigations that has
realized the vernacular architecture
near santiago in teno comune
in the comma sector and to the rescue of the
black wheat seed formerly the
Most houses in rural Chile
core were straw or other fibers
depending on the true sector then
today we can see that in the paintings
since the 19th century the painters in the
stories from travelers today already
disappeared from our landscape
so when I started to investigate this
area and I saw that there were still ranches
that had these ceilings interested me and
I went to ask and the answer left me
very very worried there were no longer
seeds of that wheat variety that
they use in that sector to roof
I knew I was already lost I still knew
the technique to repair your roof or to
roof but they did not have how to get the
raw material
It was then that I decided to investigate and
I started asking permissions
entrance to the houses without knowing much
the people until asking and
asking I arrived at the ranch of Don
remigio who remembered that in his shed
over there behind some potatoes a success
between the rooms next to him there was
a sack of seeds that makes almost more than
two years had saved just in case he
He said
and we sowed it we did not know if they were going to be
look or not and spring came and not
it only germinated if it did not give us a harvest
incredible wheat with which we could
document the entire process of
sown the mown that is when
cuts the threshing that is whipping the wheat
It is a very old threshing almost no
you see up the roof of these breasts
that last more than 30 years without moving
Needless to say insulators are
then not only cute
rescued that technique and it was documented
that a seed was recovered that in thing
of a couple of years would have
made smoke and the smoke does not return from heaven
this knowledge that knowledge
which of those that I speak have a name
very special for us for the
science let’s say it they are called
Vernacular vernacular knowledge is
a Latin word that comes from the old
Roman Empire when they had
slaves to work the land a
slave that was born in that place happened to
be part of the earth and was called
vernacular
that is means slave of the earth by
that is important if we live in
a context in a place in a geography
with a certain climate if we cultivate
certain foods if we have certain
native trees is key to living in
this context in this context and
avoid it without destroying it because today what
we are destroying is not true
learn from the knowledge of these
ancestral cultures that have lived in
harmony with nature
for generations are very nice the
cultures outside the rapa nui culture
wonderful is not true culture
Peruvian woman the Mexican who knows
mexico has been dazzled with its culture
the tribes of africa millions of culture
different the wonderful European culture
the ancient Chinese but none of those
cultures is from this soil under these
stars with these birds that sing to
the shadow of the quillayes this earth
has its roots in knowledge
vernacular and that is the knowledge that
we do not have to lose to
to be able to build a harmonious future
that responsibility falls on us and
responsibility of our now of
our generation does not burn our
own codices
and maybe the answer little to finish
be that simple is not true of
leave our comfort and our
paradigm
to ask from humility and
amazement to the bearers of these
knowledge as they said to ask
the lady who makes chicha ask the
woman who sells tortilla in the plaza oa
the sweeps that are coming down now
from the mountain range to the fisherman of a
remote cove is to open your eyes to this
wonderful culture that is that it
find as the spiders hidden in
the corners of our geography
[Applause]
[Music]
In Yucatan, the bishop entered next to the
deepest wisdom heard in the air
when the first Maya wrote down scoring
the trembling of the river the science of pollen
the laws of the hive
the secret of the green the language of
the secret stars of the day and the
night
the bishop raised his arm and burned in the
Place the books making smoke
old leaves worn by time
dark and smoke does not return from heaven
in this poem neruda speaks to us of the
burning of the Mayan codices the year 1562
by Bishop Diego de Landa and the
crisis that means the loss of these
knowledge
nowadays more than 500 years later
we are living a similar crisis but
he is not a bishop who sent books but
that we are and there are no books
a group of people that still
they preserve their ancestral knowledge
acquired by generations here in
chile very close to here two hours from
santiago so it’s not up to us he attacked the
wonderful place
I wanted to live with them to accompany me to
this place in the hills arrived I hope
deck of leg waters of vol 2 a
visit Mrs. Maria her kitchen and her
loom
[Music]
It is a hidden place among the hills
of the coastal mountain range where the
people still inhabit stone houses
with thatched roofs
raise animals that enclose in corals
of viral
the water runs along the same slopes as
when I ran on stone channels to
arranging fields potato maize and beans
these people still remember the
true names of pastures plants e
insects
[Music]
they know at what times you can cut a
tree to make a plow or to make
a beam
they know to what precise part of the forest
resort to take out an herb when
something hurts
and so it could be all afternoon
enumerating the knowledge of these
people who live in this hidden place
of modernity among the hills of
the mountain range of the coast
this knowledge
and this way of inhabiting the environment
being part of it and respecting what
is what we call ancestral culture
in the central zone of chile
the most populated place in our country
where is that ancestral knowledge
where are the laws of the hive that
Neruda speaks to us
where is that knowledge acquired in
the silence of day and night
it’s almost gone
then they are thousands of years of
observation from the first
inhabitants of this geography who were
accumulating this knowledge and
knowledge experiences that are not
in any book or wikipedia or
internet that are losing
if there were six families left when I arrived
for the first time to this place almost
four years today there are only three left
that what we are experiencing is a
crisis today
all this knowledge these kitchens
where women cook their tortillas
buried in the ash
they are going to be those smoke and smoke
as Neruda says it does not come back from heaven
they feel the same pain as me
I tell you that this is going to be lost come
that their children taught themselves did with a
culture that they no longer want to live isolated
on a hill that the system takes to
another place to study another kind of
knowledge reach the people
it dazzles
and they do not return
[Music]
however where is the hope not
it’s so sad is that this knowledge
are transmitted from generation to
generation that is the essence of these
knowledge this is how they have lasted
how they have endured through the
generations then they the greatest
that still keep these with this
wisdom they see that someone arrives
question that blooms that or why
serves this herb or when I can cut
a tree to make a beam they
they take pride in their own and they want it
transmit know they are the last
bastion that the baton of the post what
they have them and they have to
deliver someone that way I take
the cane that by the way is called
witness and I take charge of being the
witness to note of record of filming
to draw from sitting down to drink mate and
ask the relevant question and wait
the answer
in my case of architecture its way
to build and to live in a place
but most importantly his way of
inhabit an environment a place during
generations without destroying it in harmony
with nature
I wanted to tell you as an experience
within the investigations that has
realized the vernacular architecture
near santiago in teno comune
in the comma sector and to the rescue of the
black wheat seed formerly the
Most houses in rural Chile
core were straw or other fibers
depending on the true sector then
today we can see that in the paintings
since the 19th century the painters in the
stories from travelers today already
disappeared from our landscape
so when I started to investigate this
area and I saw that there were still ranches
that had these ceilings interested me and
I went to ask and the answer left me
very very worried there were no longer
seeds of that wheat variety that
they use in that sector to roof
I knew I was already lost I still knew
the technique to repair your roof or to
roof but they did not have how to get the
raw material
It was then that I decided to investigate and
I started asking permissions
entrance to the houses without knowing much
the people until asking and
asking I arrived at the ranch of Don
remigio who remembered that in his shed
over there behind some potatoes a success
between the rooms next to him there was
a sack of seeds that makes almost more than
two years had saved just in case he
He said
and we sowed it we did not know if they were going to be
look or not and spring came and not
it only germinated if it did not give us a harvest
incredible wheat with which we could
document the entire process of
sown the mown that is when
cuts the threshing that is whipping the wheat
It is a very old threshing almost no
you see up the roof of these breasts
that last more than 30 years without moving
Needless to say insulators are
then not only cute
rescued that technique and it was documented
that a seed was recovered that in thing
of a couple of years would have
made smoke and the smoke does not return from heaven
this knowledge that knowledge
which of those that I speak have a name
very special for us for the
science let’s say it they are called
Vernacular vernacular knowledge is
a Latin word that comes from the old
Roman Empire when they had
slaves to work the land a
slave that was born in that place happened to
be part of the earth and was called
vernacular
that is means slave of the earth by
that is important if we live in
a context in a place in a geography
with a certain climate if we cultivate
certain foods if we have certain
native trees is key to living in
this context in this context and
avoid it without destroying it because today what
we are destroying is not true
learn from the knowledge of these
ancestral cultures that have lived in
harmony with nature
for generations are very nice the
cultures outside the rapa nui culture
wonderful is not true culture
Peruvian woman the Mexican who knows
mexico has been dazzled with its culture
the tribes of africa millions of culture
different the wonderful European culture
the ancient Chinese but none of those
cultures is from this soil under these
stars with these birds that sing to
the shadow of the quillayes this earth
has its roots in knowledge
vernacular and that is the knowledge that
we do not have to lose to
to be able to build a harmonious future
that responsibility falls on us and
responsibility of our now of
our generation does not burn our
own codices
and maybe the answer little to finish
be that simple is not true of
leave our comfort and our
paradigm
to ask from humility and
amazement to the bearers of these
knowledge as they said to ask
the lady who makes chicha ask the
woman who sells tortilla in the plaza oa
the sweeps that are coming down now
from the mountain range to the fisherman of a
remote cove is to open your eyes to this
wonderful culture that is that it
find as the spiders hidden in
the corners of our geography
[Applause]
[Music]
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