precious pocket atlas
it was an old design edition
sobre ma the back cover
very very promising more than ten
thousand place names 80 cartons
colors of which a large number on
Folding
I do not count the hours I have
spent there face down to scrutinize the
curves the names of the colors to try
to find my place I was born and I
grown up in the French Alps
Turkish parents and I always had this
indescribable feeling of being a beautiful
from Asia a piece of europe tips from
thing that I feel not touch since
my childhood I feel deeply
then fragmented fragmented beyond
double culture is rather this
difficulty making sense of everything
I am or wish to be a bit like
if in my game I had too many cards
adult value it was not at all
arranged
because at every meeting you have to
present in a few words
I never managed to answer
simply to these questions or at least
in a way that seems to me
authentic complete true
we could say that when you
feel part of your identity
from whom you are a part of your
cultural ethnic gender identity
social worship short a land that a
part of who you are and memorize
misunderstood judged even rejected well
you have a little tendency to
to wear a badly cut suit because
I need to tell you when
part of your identity created
debates at the national level
very handy especially at the beginning of my
professional life I had a little
tendency to don a suit
this is not very suitable because he
must have met during my life
professional
other women in his costumes
stuck between injunctions often
tacit very very often
contradictory
the iaws vases and ambition can not and
order i often think isabelle a
recognized expert in his field who a
day told me that before every meeting
she was repeating herself a kind of mantra
very very creepy
isabelle from now on you are
a man but I also think about
jean-philippe this business leader who
kept telling me
no but will be me this tip of the leader
authoritarian it does not suit me I have not my
banged his fist on the table because it
we expect from a good manager it’s not
my style our professional lives
can be particularly violent
in this respect especially that it defines
a great part of who we are and I know of
what am I talking about
to calm the worries of the
little girl I had found a
infallible parade
what I was doing said everything about who
L was
it’s super convenient to hide
behind a title a role
until the father ends in 2013
I experienced the cessation of activity in
which I had invested myself or
which I sacrificed with passion
my evenings and weekends the moments
between friends
family celebrations while we
get along well it was not much
but that was all for me you have
maybe you too lived this say
that sure of the social identity
I do not know by a period of
unemployment and the and what are you doing what
now who is becoming very
embarrassing it can be also the
departures of children from home
family it is necessary to reinvent life
two or all alone
or then retirement
very strange expression
as if we were withdrawing from the world
in short all those occasions where
the identity of the iron has no more of
sense I understood
for my part that this bulimia of
projects of activities in which I
complaisait is extremely easy
you are a beautiful facade but that in
waiting for the little girl she had
still not answers to his questions
about the same period
camille my companion was getting ready for
leave for the great pilgrimage a little
idle I confess I followed them and
it was an electroshock
one of those rare eureka moments that
is offered to you in a life a species
parenthesis of communion with
some 2.5 million pilgrims came
from around the globe around the world
world in one look
a hymn to singularity all
different all connected there to the heart
of a living atlas between Indonesian
Yemeni Canadian I felt
light and kneaded but
in fact we are different
wealth and have everyone
a place then I conceive
it seems very banal but me it’s
the first time I felt
this truth in my guts
the pilgrimage had also succeeded in
do something
he had managed to dream the little
girl you can imagine that a childhood
to look at cards especially when
you grew up between four valleys
at some point you want to
to leave it’s like that with my
camille’s companion we decided to
leave for common sense route without
project without date back with for
only goal to surrender to the
road in the manner of dervishes
wandering in the manner of the first
travelers say as much as for the hyper
active I’m already it was a
exercise in itself we wanted to
to experiment with this counting and
little by little the mechanics of the road
gets ready
you put to accept what otherwise
would be unthinkable
especially when one is a little neurotic of
Planning
so do not plan to trust
very often we did not know where we
was going to sleep where to eat the same day
we have lightened materially
easily
butting or gem pleasure of a
minimalism and a chosen frugality
we wanted to restore value
at the time and take the distance
by our travel mode we have
shared the daily life of more than one
fifty families across
all eurasia live under their roof at
their rhythm almost in their
shoes here with them the Kalach people
on the Afghan pakistan border
we were literally adopted
by Kyrgyz families families
russian families from Pakistan
I can not thank enough our
hosts with the naive astonishment of a
child finally I saw the world to
through the eyes of other people from
people in the everyday seemed
radically different from mine
seemed I often think irtysh souls
gets lost in the south of the Punjab
Pakistani with whom we spent a lot
of time that has an evening offers us a
motorcycle ride
but he insists that I drive me
I’m still going for this kind
stuff even if I do not know very well
driving a motorcycle I have fast enough
understood that what was asking me the
go beyond a small trip
when to start under the gaze
of a group of men and girls
I hesitate
I’m afraid of Calais and that charm
get closer to me he says no no no
it’s now showing that it’s
possible
so I managed to start and
camille who photographer to us was
behind taking pictures
I let you imagine the heads of
villagers another passing moments
like that I lived a few
during our two years of homelessness
whether in the infinite steppes of
Central Asia
rocked by the legends of nomads
especially when you have origins
Turkish that it speaks to you
aboard the transsiberian eyes
plunged into the taiga and the waters of the
baikal or at the foot of food my
mountains of pakistan remove several
months in a row of some form of
say modernity whether it’s rhythm
cargo
of the train of the march I had all the
time to think of questioning me
all these experiences led me to
erase small boundaries that
I had myself drawn on my map
personal to 116 ask me what is this
which is similar what is
different
what will I do in their
context
what can I do in my
context I entered this year
with a much more readable map of
who I am and I wish to be then
less obvious that me it’s
to continue to invest myself in the art of
collaboration
the collective intelligence at the service
of ecology make good use and
preserve our natural resources and
personal what actually tell me what
worries goes well beyond my
personal experience
see that all singularities
desperately trying to erase his
wealth we agree are
tools of understanding keys but
what do we do with it
frankly we lock ourselves into our
circles in our circles we trace
pretty invisible borders around
where and where our world is
limit we are impoverished we are drying up and
then all this energy frankly
all this energy spent not to
assume to be defined by the
others to fantasize to give up
all this lost energy is wasted
our resources
we waste and I waste
it’s a thing that revolts me
and I see
really an urgency to change all that
the challenges that are on our doorstep
today we talked a little bit more
early in the day the crisis
ecological the social crisis the
reinventing our models of
company frankly all this will be
much less easy if we waste our
talents our energy
and if we close the door to those and
those who do not have the jaws of
employment
what is certain is that there is a
deposit of creativity potential
huge
imagine if each of us here
individually you get yourself there yourself
bottom bottom me
imagine if individually each
took his place
what we would be able to
collectively
I think it’s pretty promising but
so how does it make me
close but 70 I ask myself this question
so what does it look like in two years of
peregrinations three months in a row
under a tent
eat noodles all that
all that I think you can in
save money
I think there is much more
to nurture and affirm plurality
of our identities that for me pass
by the relationship to each other it’s like a
kind of muscles trained that
maybe to make that first step of
side
it can be to create connections
outside of our circles or any
simply register for this course
of art you’ve been dreaming of forever
go talk to his neighbor you cross
from time to time launched this project that
you have in mind to realize this dream
childhood
the trips the meetings even the
readings are wonderful opportunities
to be others to be either
multiplied them in your own way
maybe right now right out
of the room does this first step to
to change your world map
you understood it me I’m fascinated
by geography and something that
fascinates with the cards
a map is a representation of
the reality is a projection that
often only needs to evolve
get rich then I invite us all
reach out to others
get out of our circles explore 9 to 7
find all his ways to bring
from depth to our relief maps
and constantly I think I wonder
what world do we want to navigate with
thank you
[Applause]
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