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Ciencia para Todos/ Science for all | Dennise Vásquez | TEDxCuenca


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a special moment in the life of a being

human when you see the past to the present

and to the future and you realize what

you want to do that happened to me once

at 26 years old I was already a teacher

university consultant

communication on that path I had the

lucky to meet many people but my

favorites were the scientists in that

way to turn one day I got this

text message

a colleague of teaching is

completely terrified because there was

a journalist arrived at her laboratory

ask him about his project

research that I wanted to do a

report to my surprise this person that

is an eminence in his public branch in

the best scientific journals will

international congresses was

completely terrified

imagine my surprise at

get those who stood in the

door waiting for me to arrive they say what

I make myself understand help me

then I tell him why you do not

experiment that you showed me the other time

and let me already ask you little

a little and based on sol eva is explained

So much that was a key moment for me

I realized that scientists are

that group of our society that are

misunderstandings many times we think that

is a crazy doctor who is in a

laboratory locked up that the bad guy

movie

the teacher who does not like us all

world and the child of the class that

we also do not like it, I do not know if it

Agrees but they are not people like this

group of fourteen just like you and that

I dream dreams, aspirations and that

he wants to do something different

just choose a job that is to do

science and that is that scientists have

that intrinsic ability that they achieve

generate in reality something that lives in

his head but also in certain

times went against the current

and they managed to change the course of

story and what would happen if that

information is close to people

imagine when we are going to take a

momentous decision in life the

which are parents here to know that

better when their children grew up

worried about giving them the best

food to grow sants or

know they were depressed and did not know

they manage to concentrate or do absolutely

nothing

Sometimes they lost their job and did not

they know how to continue

and there are also questions not so

transcendental is not true like that

point in the sky that we see sometime and

otherwise it will be that he lives on another planet

can be and believe there are no questions

silly

maybe some person in the world

They even ask if I do not know the same thing

you and who knows what is

doing research

then I decided one day I got to my

home and I told my parents I’m going to leave

my work as a consultant

I’m going to get into teaching still

I remember my mom’s face and

after that I said I’m going to do a

PhD students will already imagine some

people who are already crazy because you are going to

moving away from your comfort has its job

and I went to live in a small room of two

wells is my desk will excuse the

sport and is that today there are many

information we have from the media

of communication in social networks

and then you will know when we wanted

drop those extra kilos and we look for

a magazine that says low days off

in 15 days or leave the sadness in five

steps and we ate that story but to

Sometimes we do not realize that this takes

of decisions has impact the rest of

our lives

and there is a ghost that is the

instant gratification that today in

day we live it a lot that is well

similar to happiness but that

add seconds do not you think it is

time to stop seeing things as

we want to see if they make us feel better and

as they are

and is that every day as I said this

mister a little disheveled every day

we know more

and we understand less if they have realized

We know everything but we have less than

the things that surround us and that way

when I got my doctorate

I found a surprise I started to

do my first research and

I searched and searched and searched for information

and I went to my tutor and I said no

no surprise why meeting

we have here because there is just no

another shock in my life and magical moment

key and still little terrifying and I

I found a methodology that

called ‘the big’ faithful I the theory of

camps and what is this based on that the

reality your laboratory becomes sales

to the street to do experiments of

trial and error and trial and error and test

and error until you get information

that can generalize in some way

to explain explain a phenomenon and

there I had accomplices and tn

if someone of my students is here

I want to thank you because without

Have you ever accompanied me to

any of those crazy things that I had not

I could have done this and said good

if there is no information that I am going to do

I sat down and said good

the only promise I can make a

researcher who has been years

doing a project is that I’m going to try

to do the best I can with my

experience in communication and

work of my students so that I can

spread his son and I told them I said good

who wants to share and for me

surprise there were some people we

we went to his laboratories and pass

whole days with them until learning

of geolocation of animal genetics

botany water management

I want communicator and metal ones that

They chased me back but without them

I swear to you that I could not have done

absolutely nothing and in that process I

I found these two great

thinkers win in German philosopher and

paulo freire Brazilian pedagogue both of

two historically forgotten groups and

oppressed by power

women in science and

Latin Americans who say these

Sirs

you who are at best in the

university were 9 would follow so that

you taught me teacher rest that never

I will apply no longer be honest or

it’s true

higher education must

rethink because we have to teach

our young people to increasingly

generate solutions for problems

of the everyday life of ordinary people and

current not from a power system and the

policy and step that with that

knowledge can sustain themselves to

themselves and fulfill their dream of doing

make it happen

and good here is the method then

If someone wants to spread their ideas and

research tells me how it went

why are they going to help me a lot for

my thesis this is the multimodal model

hybrid communication modal

scientific that I prefer to call

Science for everyone and is back to

girls and ask when they were

growing up and I had no idea of anything from

what they saw and they picked up mom and

dad and what for and why and why

until they can understand that same

we went to do ourselves with colleagues

researchers to ask them about what

that they were investigating and to know

what they were doing their purpose the

target where it impacted those findings

and point 2 reflect it in the everyday

in that space of reality as the

neighborhood store the way in which

we move on the street the food that

we eat the way we behave

to be able to reflect on a reality

tangible for him not expert from where he

carries out that finding and here they

I count an experience when I was

doing this part of the investigation

the new president of the united states

decided to take out one of his first laws

that was to prohibit scientists

can speak in public about their

research findings to what

everyone thought was saying no good to

they do not even care about telling us

what they are doing

I tell you that this is a lie we suffer

students and teachers so much

that we decided to put together a march

to the most Latin American strike style

through the streets of Albuquerque and

other parts of united states that happened

and we went out to demand that they leave us

talk to people about the things that

we are investigating because just

that is the goal of science

if we dissociate it from reality

loses the way of its existence and in

that way

as there is no chance but

causality I came across these two

books of the authors that has nothing

to see with the mind and cite what

next because it will be the destruction

of the human being by politics without

principles for him to do without

commitment

wealth without work wisdom without

immoral business character and the

science without humanity and that is that we

we think that the scientist is

insensitive and sometimes those silences that

we see them or maybe they do not want

talking to anyone is because they are

treasuring a knowledge and looking for

better way to know and contagion

and what happens if you see here a

scientific sense paper

for example it is being studied much

objectification of women the

reification and awaits the conclusion of

this pp but it is necessary to have a

parallel dialogue a dialogue for the

that is not an expert so that you can

appropriate that knowledge and can

support the change of current reality and

How about we make coffee with women

and we sit them down and discuss the

same find in a way as is

that every time they choose to settle

that only value in their physical aspect

they are supporting that other women

also be seen as an object is what

same thing in other words the the

point 3 is to find our audiences

key

if we give not only with the

demographic data but to know that

person how is he mobilized that he likes

do in your free time that scares you

that makes you happy to be able to design

a communication experience and good

here you will say good here is not

is teaching us nothing more than a

traditional communication strategy

if you have

but the special point is to generate a

scientific learning experience and

here a whole game is worth a

public relations experiment

street marketing whatever it is

based on our research for

carry that message

one day I walked through the streets of

this city of albuquerque and where the

university and I found this

reader and says in this house we believe that

no human is illegal that love is

love that the real science that the

Women’s rights are rights

human that the lives of the people of

color matter that water is life and the

generosity is all that piece of

cardboard in the house of a stranger

it made sense to me even though I was not

american

I understood everything that I was suffering

that town in a moment and summarizes a

experience a series of attitudes not

necessarily positive but yes

call our conscience and make us

think and that we generate a series of

experiments

one of my accomplices was the group of

investigation already calaf with the group of

foot and pedal research

we made a hybrid something like a

Frankenstein

we mix a press conference with a

geolocation experiment with

street marketing and we take out the

scientists to shop around

bicycle with the means of

communication to see how it was going to be

the process of mobility and as if they are going to

monitor the people we achieve

with this we need 20 volunteers

we get more than 100 at low cost

and the people took over the need

to think about new ways of mobility

for basin with the group of races of

cattle

we generated a field day with

geneticists and media in

which came out of his laboratory

we take out the vaquitas and we go out to take

coffee and talk about animal genetics

we get coverage at the national level and

international

the research group of the

chemical principles of plants

Medicines of our country too

had the opportunity to communicate

the chemical principles of these

species that allowed even

replace the traditional medicine that

had no side effects with the

watershed research group

hydrographic

we also managed to investigate and present

the findings of scientists

international and nationals

national park boxes

what is the goal to the end of the

science if we dissociate

the academy of society does not have

total sense but if we manage to link

these two experiences to these two

social groups

who knows, we could change the course

of history and create science for

everybody

Thank you

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