when I was a child I felt frustrated
since there were no opportunities here
I thought about all the things I could not
be in studying art in going to europe in
know the different architecture in
everything that television represented
and to a lesser extent the internet
I was thinking when the university ends
I leave tarija and those who live here
that they fix their problems were not mine
at that time I did not feel mine has
time has passed and suddenly there is
forced
after studying architecture that
focuses on solving problems in thinking
I’m here I’m doing life I’m
a married man I have a small son
how do I change things in
this society based on what
from what I love from what
that I am
there is something that I have to give and it is the
same question that water them and something that
you have to give this
society
Being a father has definitely changed
the way I thought I had this
little child in his arms who does not
you know not even how to spend it from
change the start perspective and or
I thought
I have two options I did not see anymore one was
I dedicated myself to work very hard generated
money gave him the best
opportunities the best education
if there was something that he dreamed and did not
I could do what could happen to
any child studies art for example
good to make an effort and send it
outside it was easy things have gone
changing and I felt that something
itched inside
so I say the second way is
change the situation here but not
I was sure how I could do
I can offer the opportunities that my
son wants the ones that I have felt that I have
had but how
the world was giving us a message to
initiatives in Latin America
awesome as zebras for life
in Colombia that is worried about doing
larger a larger zebra crossing
more colorful more colorful include the
children so that they understand the importance
then that teaches us that there is
respect zebra crossing and it is done here
next because we can not Bolivians
do the same thing because we can not
tarijeños do the same and initiatives
as if in a day in colombia and the
course that the architecture was taking
architects like alejandro aravena that
they were looking to solve the deficit
global room architects
as francis kéré I was looking for
through the architecture recover
the values of your small community in
Burkina Faso in Africa and in and including
architects like bjarke ingels that we
they were starting to tell a story
sustainability did not have to
to hurt
all these messages force you like
architect and they force you as a person to
believe that you have to change the course
nowadays social networks are
transforming our lives are
changing the way
communications is handled worldwide
that provide unprecedented strength
just with having a cell phone you have access
to the information of the world and of the same
mode can provide an idea to get it out
world and that belongs to anyone
in instants many of you have
due to spend making a meme or
they write something and they throw it into networks and
at noon no one knows who
he has done it because his ideas in the
moment that a social network enters it
belong to the world this force is
starting to change things makes
one can knock down a dictator or that
can the world say if it belongs to the
mcgregor or mayweather team
That makes us ask ourselves
we can use social networks well or
wrong
including a force through networks
social
can cause an authority to take a
decision
social networks manifest the feeling
of sectors of the population and connect
to thousands of citizens in the world
immediately in our in our
medium in particular there is a very group
facebook special that has started to
cause change but this change has not
come easy to start us
we thought there are problems
we knew we had serious problems
environmental that our transport
public was not what we dreamed
we knew that our streams are
polluted there was a lot of graffiti
criminality the problems we see
every day just adding your
cell phone
the news arrives on all the
problems that we think
thousands of citizens opined in this network
social and gave their opinion and
focused on the problems sat on
the critic
everything is wrong the authorities have
what to solve
no it is not going to solve we are never
well because we deserve it
there is a change in this
people start to propose and
these proposals and these ideas that
they launch and to know what is
happening elsewhere
begins to motivate a change of attitude and
suddenly one day we met a
how many people
and we say this has to change that we
leads to the question that they make us their
text chat nor robbins because we do
what we do that is what moves us
in my case I am moved by the love for a child
small and for my family and be
convinced that I can change the
things seem like a child to be convinced of
that child to be able to climb a good
public transportation because my opinion
account and because my shares account
you can all look for the
move if you love the bicycle
can look for an inclusive city to
the bike
if you created a sustainable world
they can do what animals call
they can fight so that they suffer less for
that have better conditions so that
people understand the importance
that leads us to move from criticism
to action and it’s done with something so
simple as a group of whatsapp
we put together a watson group they start to see
ideas
many of these ideas were not ours
they are hovering on the internet and suddenly
someone says you have to take an action
I have a swing I have done
skillful with my hands but I need
someone who puts this swing is
offered through whatsapp
casually decided to put it I know sum
my brother and we go with my son had
one bank of a creek the creek
It is polluted but the riverbank is very
pretty and has many conditions but not
well in a park
then we search the internet how
make knots
We put together the necessary new
we climb and place the swing
That day I have the happiness of seeing my son
small at that time of two years
swinging on the swing with a
smile from ear to ear happy and I have
more still because the daughters of the
lady who looked after that public space
he played the afternoon he swung beautiful
I have to work all afternoon
it did not matter I went to my house and all
those of us who had participated in this
we had the doubt to be tomorrow and
he swung we did not know
we have endured the night we have done
an effort we were all nervous
we had hope in the people who
understand something good that is done by the
others and who swung is there at
next day
we arrived in the morning and there was no
Colombia
imagine the anger frustration
conscious you do something good for the
the rest
do you think that really people can
understand a detached action for
improve things and is not no
We knew who to look like guilty
We wanted to touch the doors of the
neighbors that it is that impotence we
we put together and we say what we do
we give up raising our hands, I do not know
they deserve and they say no no here there is a
lots of messages were going to what
we are trying to show
these messages that talk about there
education problems see
they give to these messages that talk about that
there is a need for public spaces
of quality for people
these problems speak of insecurity
of not having safe spaces is a
message then we can do actions
generate messages and start
educate people about what the city
it can be about the hundreds of points of
the volunteers that wanted a better
city
then we come to the activity that
we say we do not know where he has
come out someone has told us in Peru
he does this and here we can do it and
this activity was has cold carries a
Garment wants to help leave another
it consisted in putting a simple sign
with a few hooks and leave clothes
hung when we told you our
families I do not know if you what’s wrong
they are crazy
this society is not ready for this
it is not europe
how are you going to do to leave the
clothes on the street is going to steal one
will understand is going to waste your time
go and leave the church and we
we think and we say no
if we leave it in the church to
78 o’clock at night when it’s cold and
It was very cold
who is going to give these people clothes
then we say no to this action
we have to do on the street so that
whoever wants to join and who does not need
I used it
we go to a busy street and this
busy street we put the
hanger we go preparadísimos we have
a tournament we had everything ready and of
suddenly we realize that nobody
he wanted to provide us with electricity
then we have to start hammering
the wall see how we manage to screw
because it was cold we have clothes
we have the lawyer and we were there
we managed to put it when people passed
she was looking not surprised if not
you know what happened that these crazy people do
that what is this
we ended up putting a sign and we
we go to the front and we are looking
He was full of clothes to see what he thinks
people doing when we suddenly
we realize that people walked and
I saw and that it’s cold
garment
I want to help, I wanted this, people said
we saw how they interacted
It was really impressive
the next day the rain starts
messages turn on the television
we are in notice of ali do in the
citizen news ensures action for
help others but what’s important
is to have news we had not done it
to reward us and so that nobody
applaud our action
we had done and we had done it
public through social networks
because we believed with her so simple
that was not ours could mark a
change pattern thank god
our families were completely
wrong
three months have passed and those racks
they were still and full of clothes we have not
returned for clothes we did the
people
this initiative has not been from us
this initiative has been taken by the thousands
of citizens who have joined the two
universities that have joined have
there were twelve points that we have put
we have joined the council
municipal
this initiative there are people that without having
sign has hung clothes outside his house
and recently there was a photo or the
background social networks that said
even a friend
take 3 and left the rest for the
others someone that his tree had given
Figs had done exactly the same
a bar
comes a story that tells us about the
point of view a person in situation
street they had interviewed him
person who lived on the street and
say what you think about this initiative
person tells them every year when
the cold arrives
I do not know if I’m going to make it happen I do not
I know if it’s going to be my last year but
this year something to change this year I have
hope
it is difficult to explain it consciously when
you something
think what you have done or what you
one has helped to do can save one
lifetime
this year there has been only one dead and the
next year so pop
this initiative still stands and not what
we have touched again the
initiatives have been many
one day we were painting a street
when suddenly the window of
a micro comes out a boy of 16 years and we
scream friends thanks to you no longer
I’m cold , imagine what that is
was about six years we have been
still we could not believe what was
going
we have not done that, what
have made the thousands of people who have
put a garment on a coat rack
that’s what people are wearing
in
all these initiatives have been
fun have been what you tell
striking we have uploaded the networks
social issues we have tried to address
problems of our society and see if
is that there is some solution
but the best thing about this has not been the
activities that we have done the best of
this is the people we have met is
to know our city better is the
understand different points of view and
realize that with your actions with
your hands in your time you can do
pretty Things
you can change things that are wrong and
you can influence people to understand
that voluntary actions count the
people have joined in piles
initiatives have been added
universities we have had activity with
hundreds of people we have had
activity with five people and I want
tell him the phrase to exhibit himself
they find a madman doing something
great have the courage to join and that
what we do does not apply
applies to anyone being something
great if alright to the red cross you ‘re
in the campaign donating blood
go and a throw why is this
the facebook group that has motivated
all this currently has 13 thousand
733 members and we have activities of 5
100 people
imagine if a thousand of those people this
they say every week in an action to
this city would have a change that
he would feel ten times more than he has
it feels then we do not get to
think that we are us and that we can
be
We are inhabitants, we are here, passing through or
we are citizens we can get involved
know what is happening
exercise social control make a
activity to help others
offer our opinion
and help change things and that
help to build different points of
seen during the worst moments is that
we really show what
We are made
a few days ago we had a fire
terrible terrible that has consumed ten thousand
more than 10,000 hectares of green area
voice that’s all it takes to
those trees the birds the mushrooms
the animals that eat the water then
before such a monster that came
against us
thousands of citizens have left their homes
they have fired their family and have gone to see
what could these thousands of
citizens without having preparation without
count on resources and even without
matter to them any political color what
that the authorities say they have left
put out this fire to fight against
this mons
there have been dead people have been injured but
is when you see people fighting and
detaching and 1b children like Carlos
warrior who has brought volunteers
to the place of the fire that has
helped in what he could and that a
moment of rest the
tears of impotence that sees what the
people carry inside to see what can
make a partnership with children and with
people who detach and give to
rest of his time his desire for his
knowledge of how he feels about that
I ask everyone not to wait for the
next fire to take out the
volunteer that we carry inside and in
words of the architect francisco r
all about getting our hands dirty and
push together towards the same side but
one small action at a time
Thank you
[Applause]
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