said Jean Paul Sartre that what we
difference
certainly the rest of the species
living on the planet is the ability to
build future and the question is how
build that future and I do not mean
my future or your future
I refer to the future of now of a
collective of people
us in a space and a time
determined
here and now we have become accustomed to
that the future is the result of how
the problems of the present are solved
and it seems normal
unemployment poverty is a problem
education is a problem the
security of goods and people is a
problem the transport transit the
environmental pollution health are
all issues of the community that
appear as a problem according to how
we solve those problems
will result the future community like this the
future is built as a result of
how those problems are solved and if
it is a sum of partial solutions
more or less successful to solve
each one his problem but in no way
assures us the construction of a
community model of a model of
society where we want to live I
I propose you as an idea to think about the future
from another vision, I suggest you think
the future together as we would like
live as a community
think of a future idea to which
we intend to achieve as a community and
organize ourselves to reach it
then the future will not be the
consequence of how we solve the
today’s problems but consequence of
how we imagine we want to live in
a certain time and in a time
precise
the difference is huge let’s think about
example, we agree that we would like
live in one in a forest
then we would have to organize
to plant trees to see what
trees we planted where we put them
as we water it as we take care of them or that
we agreed to preserve nature without
touch it or touch it as little as possible
then we will have to build a
city with legs to get away from the
contemplate it these two
but from a protective height
As you can see, it’s very different
think of the future as a solution to
present problems to think about
imagining a future of its own although not
it seems to you true this community was
pursuing an ideal of community
future 20 years ago
that happened between the years 1996 to 1999
driven by the mayor of that
moment the Victorian salazar doctor who
I had attended a course of
training of mayors in nations
united and thus witness a talk about
strategic planning as
tool so that a community can
imagine your ideal future as the
speaker of that talk traveled to
Argentina a few months later
Victorian invited him to visit our
city with the idea that it will advise us
so that the madrynenses can
build an ideal model of community
the task started by training about 12
people in facilitation techniques
of teamwork and planning
strategic that that task took all the
year 1996 for 1997 in the first
four months, 20 forums were held
with neighbors and 14 forums with entities
intermediate forums with neighbors are
carried out in schools
primaries parents were invited to
through the communication of their children to
participate in these forums
the forums never went beyond 25 people
the procedure was simple to each
assistant was asked what was
according to your opinion the three needs
most important in your neighborhood and you
I noted the view of everyone
so on every assistant was going
saying what was your opinion regarding
to the most important needs its
neighborhood
when it was finished writing down all
these opinions were asked the first
that with all in sight I chose which
those were the ones he considered the
three most important with which to the
after about 30 to 40 minutes you had
a hierarchical list of needs
identified by that group of neighbors
next he was asked for these
same assistants who will or will think about
what are the life aspirations of
each of them to build their
future living in this community and it
will follow the same procedure
as a result of it after 30
to 40 thousand
we also had a list
hierarchy of aspirations of that
same group of neighbors
the sum of the 20 neighborhood forums
It provided an overview of needs and
aspirations of the whole of the
community expressed directly and
really by the neighbors themselves as the
same procedure was followed with the
forums of the intermediate entities and
then later they were made
forums with those responsible for
economic activities of the city and
finally forums were made with the
municipal staff because it was understood
that the new model that was
projecting I was going to need a new
organizational form
about the end of that year of 1997 it
publicly presents the model of
future there is to be achieved in
this community and at the same moment
summons the neighbors to provide
recommendations to get to that
destination
from that present that of course
I had issues that were problems
So, 23 committees were formed
of work that after six months of
Work provided 400 recommendations
I had invested
approximately 3 thousand 500 hours of
concrete work
in those commissions so that the
solving the problems of that
present now they had an orientation
concrete an orientation towards that
future model that the community itself
I had previously defined the
experience said teachings very
valuable
fundamentally the importance of
define the place where you want to be
and establish strategies to be able
reach it in a certain time
the future is no longer the consequence
randomly how the
problems of the present but that is the
consequence of how we imagine that
future and what path do we take to
to be able to reach it based on how it is
the present at the current time
these teachings are very valuable both
be it for private organizations like
public organizations and provides a
unique opportunity for generations
future
as long as it can promote a
better world more real and more concrete
for future generations and for
each one of us serves us
guidance for our actions that
they build future but not any
future but the future that we define in
community
thank you very much
[Applause]
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