that we have discussed before that is the
Resilience Resilience according
dictionary usually the ability to
recover quickly from adversity
has to do with the hardiness comes
from Latin I will receive what it means
return or bouncing refolded and such
time the most beautiful definition that I have
seen so far and that encompasses what
I’m going to share with you today is the one
bernard the year 91
Many studies show that the factor
primary in resilience is to have
relationships of affection and support within and
out of the family relationships that create
love and trust provide role models
encourage and affirm the ability of
resilience in people
this story begins at the beginning of the
90 when I meet a wonderful woman
by accident we had the same car
alejandra mente with whom we started
dream we get married and we are lucky
tremendous opportunities that he has given us
the life of starting our family life
in the united states doing a master’s degree in
urban design at the university of
harvard
At the end of my master’s degree, Pablito was born
they accepted the doctorate
I felt like a jumbo jet with the
full tanks taking off with all the
strength in fellini to the whole world and
all the opportunities in front of me
the world puffs opened like
opportunities and they began to give the
opportunity to the most uncertain places
Professor Klaus Times invites me to
work on a project to generate
links between palestine and israel in the
strip of gaza building units
productive binationals that were going to be
a bridge to repair the fracture
historical of those communities in a
disaster context starts the
second intifada we are almost taken
prisoners by the Palestinian guard that
they were wrong thinking we were
spy and we realized that the
urbanism and architecture had a
huge potential to repair those
invoices but there was also that
be exposed to risk and had to be
resilient to that risk continues our
Life began the years Ph.D.
happy of our life with pablito that
believe
already healed and friend Alejandro Aravena arrives
to be a harvard class and we started
dream about how to innovate in housing
social in chile where it will arise
after our elementary initiative and
is the one of a ticket that was taking off
with strength and conviction
suddenly you have to make a landing
forced
few days before pablito
turned two years old he was detected
small bump on her belly
sarcoma of clear cells of the liver
similar to a game but much more
aggressive 50 cases in the last 100
years in the United States a voracious cancer
e unrecognizable and untreated
despite this we give the fight and that fight
we started to give it in conjunction with
Alejandra with Pablito nine months of
radiation and chemotherapy but this one
it was the way to face that
smile we began to realize that
despite the difficulties it had
possibilities there were ways to get out
go ahead and we go ahead and come back
to chile the 2002 and we said let’s be family
we believe in life we beat death
and it arrived max and together with max and with all
the difficulties are traveling every
three months to united states to checks
to go following track
of pablito cancer that was in
review
I managed to get my Ph.D. we
lift the elementary project together
Andrey Icobelli Alejandro Aravena and
became an initiative that has
revolutionized social housing no
only in Chile but in the world
innovating and creating and just when
we wanted to be played was flying
in cruise speed comes the landing
most forced of all
on the eve of new year in 2003
to 2004
pablito begins to suffer a migraine
fierce alejandra took him to the
clinic do the scanner and the
diagnosis is fierce
It has a mass of 10 centimeters in the
brain death
have you done that night again
Alejandra leaves after recommendation
of the institute euros and
Jia who tells you that in Chile there is no
solution parts last night to united states
with pablito my dream was I did not have
visa because the student had lost
and I move a little more
Alejandra did not return in a year Chile
He left max behind and I arrived just
for the operation
this is a photo days after the
operation together with my mother-in-law
another wonderful team member who
until today giving the fight and that
fight was a terrifying fight because
why is the cancer had returned
and we managed to get a surgery
tennis ball half a kilo of tumor
your brain
now the fight was the double transplant
of marrow we had to face
with much fear but also
relying on them in the friends of
pablito in the compañeros in a place
wonderful that in children’s hospital
how important it is to let the children
be a child despite adversity and for
another side also as are children not
cry in front of not complaining in front of
but it really tell Papa
I’m going to die
I do not know but we’re fighting me Dad
you’re going to click again because you had to
clicking every night so that
raise your red blood cell counts
red blood cells white blood cells
yes my love I will have to click
but it’s for your own good and hardest
isolation those who have lived a
bone marrow transplant know that the
chemotherapy in addition to all
defenses that leaves completely open
vulnerable between a fly and bush and
this family that had left a max
that I was fulfilling by fulfilling a
Year in Chile the bubble closes
a bubble that we could not be more
of three people while he was going
raising your reds account then
of each chemotherapy and see you the
wonder that is when we manage to bring
max and that day when max peeks through the
window and he greeted his brother and he opens
the door and his brother receives it and max
he walked in he learned to walk in
Chili with your grandparents while you wait
ah and that support network is given that says
death of flight
I know you I see you in the next room in
the night but I’ll face you and
even if he was not sick
they put on a robe and accompanied their brother
and we could be happy is immensely
happy despite all the pain
despite the suffering despite the others
children who were also in that fight
and the other parents we invented where
we could space to create the
radiation that Pablo received in a
experimental radiation that required
have the head fixed with bolts to a
machine and the mask was the most expensive
of the power rangers and chose the painted
we broke our rules a friend
gibelinos Chilean medical betrayal
one year arrived a day after the
first snowfall with a cooler full of
fog out in a unit that had
an air bubble and inverted pressure
so that they do not enter jémez does not matter to
these children have to play with snow
They have to be happy and we finish
making war neither with the nurse and
we managed to get out and we managed to beat the
death again and we realized
that could really be
immensely happy and until the day of
today are the happiest years and we said
this one and one has to take off again
despite the two forced landing and
We went ahead and went back to Chile and
we came back to believe and create and go back to
get together with my elementary friends and
We begin to receive recognition
I joined my friend cristian undurraga
we won a contest to build
the capital of east korea and one was
flying high this jumbo could beat
the biggest turbulence but not there
was death stalking touching the
door that we do now we ask ourselves
with Alejandra at a routine check-up
three gaits appear in the thyroid
Alejandra has to leave urgently
United States I did not manage to travel and
this is the photo that sends
after the operation in which
extirpate
thyroid to pablo makes lips and they give
account that it was not a new tumor but
that it was a fourth manifestation of
cancer but this time old that
We do what we give, we go for a walk
around the world with him and we say do not go
to keep fighting, many people told us
give it the children are not
you’re going to fight as far as I can, I know
until when you can and together and that was
what we learned from pablito before the
adversity and why does this have to look
with reconstruction
we learned that you never have to lower the
arms – when your son
We learned that you do not have to surrender to
pessimism and we had a motto with the
distant want to work do not think
throw bread before this raised before and
today the chain an infection if you are
cooking black and in the body if the
surgeons want to cut leg no no
hold on working think
forward or step look is is
recovering
it was the wrong drug to persevere
if you have the conviction that goes by the
right path and take lessons from
every fall every mistake we made
we were a first time father
We had a new boy caha of doha
of a year and a half without committing
mistakes but there he was and look for the
cognitive aspect that the
adversity
we were never happier and there are always
space to be happy
everything is relative everything depends on the
context there will always be someone worse than
you and so we came back and the jumbo wanted
fly again and arrived anthony is
our third child and we believe the
story and we returned to chile and left the
sure we had in the united states
because we said it ‘s time to believe and
I started to believe and the jumbo started
get involved in topics for which
I was prepared and to some extent
return the hand and that’s where
the other disasters start by mistake
out of curiosity it occurred to me to make a
study six months before the start
march of the transantiago where we warn
this that is published in November of
2000
warns crisis scenario with start
of the transantiago plan
the critical study done by the lord
pablo alak the trolling was tremendous the
mirror minister before the press in the
mercury saying that we are about
theoreticians that we are academics who
we do not understand anything of the reality and
we know clearly that we did not go
we the ones who failed but it was
the reality that failed and that made me
and I did not oblige and it made me feel so
committed that says practically a
year in the commission cuts to try
fix the muddy that was the
transantiago and to this day no
we have been able to fix it and leave behind
my family and I became obsessed with this from
how to return the hand how to power
share with those people who are
suffering in the case of santiago
mobility problems to be able to
everything I learned outside with all
the opportunities that I had to return the
hand and when we were already leaving
that appears what we had never
imagined a small town in the
patagonia next to an extinct volcano
for more than 300 years it is in crisis
with the eruption of the Chaitén volcano
the communities were evacuated in 48
hours successfully handling the
emergency was remarkable no one died
the problem was that we do with these
families while the volcano is still in
rash because unlike a
earthquake in which the seconds of the
earthquake and you clean the a
build now the volcano can continue
and illusion for 10 years as the case of
chaitén terry holistic and nobody knew
what to do and we approach as experts
urbanists to the government and they tell us
ok do a study of scenarios of
relocation reconstruction for
chaitén and we move to the land and
we look for the best experts in
reconstruction and there we are zone of
risk with the active volcano next to
a ghost town trying to see if
We could save Chaitén just like
alejandra doctors and my mother and I
we saved pablito
looking for what will be the
alternative locations more
adequate and is that you could not go back to
rebuild in chaitén and finally
we see that if there is a saintly saint to
few kilometers and he had all the
conditions to not snub the
family and there begins what I call
Chaitén syndrome that is probably
the biggest failure in my professional life
and the great lesson that comes from life
and that is the rootedness of people to
very strong territory and we
we started to analyze and we realize
that the risk conditions of that
locality make it impossible for them to return to
chaitén and our recommendation was
transferred to santa barbara the government
endorses our recommendations and
what is the Chilean reaction helps us
let’s ask for help elsewhere
Chaiteninos were too rebellious
why because they were resilient were
settlers had lived many versity
volcano was one more and it touches me and to
chaitén where were the rebels that
they did not want to leave the city
explain why they have to leave and
I do not have I had the letters of
volcanic risk
I had the reports of a thousand but
I asked the interior ministry not
make it public and the sample are the
chaiteninos gentlemen the dome is very
Stable it can collapse and if it collapses
can come plastic river flow to more
of 160 kilometers per hour burning it
everything and raze with you as it happened
with a rock
I had to go out with carabineros
they screamed in the face that you do not have
children do not know what is the
suffering that we have and I said to them
I have children and I know what is the
suffering but when the doctor
says to save my son’s life
and that take out a kidney and make it
chemotherapy and radiotherapy
I have to take on that pain and about that
rebuild and it became a reality and
two weeks later collapsed
partially the volcano dome
thank god did not come to chaitén it was
a partial collapse that reached 400
meters from the city
then the recommendation is made
reality the government makes the decision
to start the transfer to Santa Barbara
but for
time passes time passes time
and no brick is built in
santa barbara contests are made
to have a model city
the ministry is a master plan
wonderful that was going to be presented by
the president in puerto montt with a
giant scale model on February 28
2010 begins to delay that decision
to build to build the
chaiteinos segi have displaced in
futaleufú in full in chiloé what
we will do with our lives we will
to be able to go back and the brains of the new
chaitén that we had touched the sky
we also begin to be questioned and
you start looking for that there is business
hidden and this jumbo that was
flying that he was sharing all his
experience returning to the country
It also begins to have turbulence and
begins to fall victim to the ash but
we thought it was going to be gasol
wait
[Applause]
one day before the president
begin the reconstruction ex mayor
from Santa Barbara the
earthquake of 27 f
the second most intense lived with clothes
and if in addition to this he manifested
history humanity
you did not live directly more than
20,000 localities destroyed
the country’s infrastructure
committed 20 thousand homes of
social interest that they had to be
rebuilt repairs chile that was going to
save the housing deficit of
suddenly you see four years ago two
buildings that collapsed that should not have
collapse as high river communities
coastal areas that should not have been
located in a risk area but the
tsunami hazard maps were not
binding with the regulatory plans
fishing ports and coves villages
patrimonial and even santiago to 600
so many kilometers suffered a debacle
that we never imagined that divided us
that filled us with fear and death
He started dancing in front of everyone
us and this was the postcard of the chile
of the bicentennial
I was devastated with the failure of
Chaitén and on February 28, 2010
I was with the far one on the terrace of the
home and the phone and the alejandra
Not knowing who tells me yes
but one the president elect sebastián
piñera calls me and tells me lord talk
you were in chaitén
you had the transantiago os
transantiago you were in the fringe
of gaza and I need your help to be
national reconstruction coordinator
urban the complexity of the task was
appalling 220 thousand families that
they needed the help of the state to
rebuild or repair their houses so that
let’s do an easy exercise try
count up to 220,000 without making mistakes and
add to select that family
be legible subsidy be able to process the
subsidy that postulates the subsidy have
subsidy resources
once with the subsidy
have a project once you have a
general project the funds to tender
the construction once it is tendered
the construction do the inspections
techniques that meets all the
regulations once it complies with all the
regulations to have the reception
end of works and deliver that house to
that the family can live
do it 220 thousand times without
make a mistake
we were very wrong but we had to
face and the president told us
four years reconstruction
finished and it was tremendous
first to handle expectations because
because as this teacher of
harvard mental health that came to
support communities in the response
from the government to the disaster was remarkable
was remarkable for how fast and
coordinated was the problem with a
disaster is that you will never be
satisfied because although he does very well
the glue a disaster will continue to be
a Chilean disaster made the duel
Chilean understood that he had to
recognize suggested and from the
recognition should be returned to
rebuild and our president
hyperactive full of goals that we
he pressed if he did not press us
this also helped out a lot
because he took the miners 70 days
an impossible thing and also because
he said phrases like that in 20 days
we had advanced more than in 20 years
and the crossfire started
the president was ready for this
for the best seller but my children do not and
the Christmas gift that the
Clinic to the residents of Felicito
explain to my son that he was five
days a week on the ground because
I was helping the Chileans that I
say dad because screening says
that to discharge the rage the government
I thought I’d take petit to the minister of
housing chained in tour for everything
said so that the villagers to
that the crest five minutes each
settlers bring us to the shortest
stinging or to the pressure of having
to deal with the pain the pressure of
get this out in four years the pressure
of the political crossfire that was coming
everywhere, on top of the mockery
mockery was tremendous
but if I had been in the unit
of bone marrow transplant
if I had faced together with pablito
the distant
the maxim and mother-in-law what was explaining
to the people madam you have lived
70 years on the banks of the maule
but he’s going to have to make a sacrifice
because that sacrifice compensated for
allow constitution to return to
build in a resilient way to communicate
and explain contain and on the other hand
try to solve this joke octopus
what is the bureaucratic mom to be able to
move forward on projects and say no me
I learned in Chaitén that the bureaucracy
that express them if we want to take in
four years we condensed the bureaucracy
we deploy local capabilities and so on
was how we developed more than 150
master plans here in the region
Robert Smith and team in charge 18 plans
teachers as good as they allowed
that a community that had its future
completely committed because he was
in a risk area
will have a master plan
resilient reconstruction sacrificing
if the first line of housing but
giving them opportunities to
access quality housing and not
only remaining in the lament and in the
cadastre of the damages nor in the
power point as we were in chaitén
but moving fast
learned the lesson is from chaitén
towards execution so that this
community is that in joy I take that
kohl smoke that constitution could
come back safely in form
resilient to believe that you can beat
death believe that you can beat the
fear that the fishermen are not
displaced 500 meters from their rig and
those votes but have housing
tremendous resilient tsunami
innovations that were made here in the
region of adversity to triumph
I’m not the one to say it but the
international experience compared already
says that the reconstruction in Chile has
been one of the processes where the
central government has had a more role
direct but at the same time he has given
more options to the victims for
look for solutions and I’m going through the
world giving and sharing the lessons
of this reconstruction
last week at the world summit of
habitat of quito and in chile the last
cep survey the year 2004 when
we should have finished we were left
five hundred houses of 2000
another and to this day there are 300
that still has certain complexities
but already 0.01 percent of the
220,000 for rebuilding how it is evaluated
the far reconstruction the best
evaluated by the government of sebastián
Piñera working with disasters is not a
easy hit
first they will criticize you because it is very
slow
then they will accuse him of lack of
transparency participation by wanting
go faster the anxiety kills the
parents of children with cancer and
displaced from a tragedy does not kill them
Cancer does not kill the tragedy
Kills uncertainty and you have to know
face uncertainty and finally
it takes away from you they will criticize because it was ugly or
badly done because you were scarred and
if they do that to you then there will already be
finished when the
Chile reconstruction next 2014
four years after 2010
it can be but there is another reconstruction
to finish this year there is also a lot
most important for my family
these little dad with his nurse in 2004
during double bone marrow transplantation
ten years after remission
We decided to go back but this time without fear
this time to give thanks this time to
share to celebrate with puffs the
miracle of life to close our
own reconstruction
you see the emotion of those
nurses of the transplant unit
when this wonderful young man appears
that they had not seen in ten years and that
arrives at vargas and the jumbo thing but not
only sun as far
accompanied by a wonderful woman who
could the space come back and accompanied
of three wonderful escorts that go to
fly later alone but let’s go
further because
of failures and fear can be
emerge victorious from the threat and
death that we will always be
exposed to them we will be able to
get up
if we are a recipient and above all
independent of what they live they have
right and always seek happiness
thank you very much
[Applause]
me
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