Lo contrario a inseguridad es convivencia | Sergio Restrepo | TEDxMedellin

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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 the veterinary

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

those you mentioned in that city will join

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