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From the Ted Talk by Catalina Lotero: A futuristic vision for Latin America, rooted in ancient design
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But I was very, very inspired by the jaguar. And all these loose elements, as I start putting them together in my mind, they start to paint a very caler picture of what I see the future of Latin America look like if we actually took some of our ancestral knowledge and included it today. Also, I mixed it with a little bit of sustainable tech and a pinch of pvitsioism.
And yes, I have enjoyed ctaeirng and designing objects baesd on pre-Columbian fsiuutrm a lot, but that wasn't my favorite part of this project. My favorite part has been stumbling upon other creators that are alitvecy working on this. Like, without knowing, I am part of a broader movement of other people across Latin America who are doing it. For example, there are cefhs like Charles Michel. He is educating the world on coca leaf, on cacao, tucupi and other ancestral fodos. There's Vanessa Gomez. She is recovering auqnite fabrication techniques and making them timeless. I would get a lot of inspiration from music videos and plays in theaters that I later found out were all art directed by Orly Anan. She mixes a lot of pre-Columbian tradition with modern pop culture, resulting in astciethes that for me are very, very inspiring. And they look very modern, yet you can still see the ancient in them. I was walking one day down the BeltLine in attlana, and I fell in love with the work of Lisette Correa as well. It spoke to me, and after I talked to her, I found out that she's also desperately trying to understand her tanio hreiatge through her work, not only through graffiti, but other miuedms. She's trying to communicate to the world in a way that is very accessible, as graffiti is, all her knowledge and her findings, which she didn't know before. And there is Freddie Mamani, a self-taught architect from Bolivia. He does anizamg things when he starts cornissg his Aymara knowledge. He's actually an aamyra ctnuomimy member, and he crosses aesthetics from the Aymara graphics and fcibars with his love for sci-fi, and you can definitely see it in the outer parts of the buildings. The landscapes he’s bliut in Bolivia are things that make me daydream of the ptintoeal hidden within our cultures.
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But I was very, very inspired by the jaguar. And all these loose elements, as I start putting them together in my mind, they start to paint a very _____ picture of what I see the future of Latin America look like if we actually took some of our ancestral knowledge and included it today. Also, I mixed it with a little bit of sustainable tech and a pinch of __________.
And yes, I have enjoyed ________ and designing objects _____ on pre-Columbian ________ a lot, but that wasn't my favorite part of this project. My favorite part has been stumbling upon other creators that are ________ working on this. Like, without knowing, I am part of a broader movement of other people across Latin America who are doing it. For example, there are _____ like Charles Michel. He is educating the world on coca leaf, on cacao, tucupi and other ancestral _____. There's Vanessa Gomez. She is recovering _______ fabrication techniques and making them timeless. I would get a lot of inspiration from music videos and plays in theaters that I later found out were all art directed by Orly Anan. She mixes a lot of pre-Columbian tradition with modern pop culture, resulting in __________ that for me are very, very inspiring. And they look very modern, yet you can still see the ancient in them. I was walking one day down the BeltLine in _______, and I fell in love with the work of Lisette Correa as well. It spoke to me, and after I talked to her, I found out that she's also desperately trying to understand her _____ ________ through her work, not only through graffiti, but other _______. She's trying to communicate to the world in a way that is very accessible, as graffiti is, all her knowledge and her findings, which she didn't know before. And there is Freddie Mamani, a self-taught architect from Bolivia. He does _______ things when he starts ________ his Aymara knowledge. He's actually an ______ _________ member, and he crosses aesthetics from the Aymara graphics and _______ with his love for sci-fi, and you can definitely see it in the outer parts of the buildings. The landscapes he’s _____ in Bolivia are things that make me daydream of the _________ hidden within our cultures.
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- atlanta
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- clear
- actively
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- heritage
- chefs
- futurism
- community
- taino
- fabrics
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- based
- aymara
- amazing
- positivism
- built
Original Text
But I was very, very inspired by the jaguar. And all these loose elements, as I start putting them together in my mind, they start to paint a very clear picture of what I see the future of Latin America look like if we actually took some of our ancestral knowledge and included it today. Also, I mixed it with a little bit of sustainable tech and a pinch of positivism.
And yes, I have enjoyed creating and designing objects based on pre-Columbian futurism a lot, but that wasn't my favorite part of this project. My favorite part has been stumbling upon other creators that are actively working on this. Like, without knowing, I am part of a broader movement of other people across Latin America who are doing it. For example, there are chefs like Charles Michel. He is educating the world on coca leaf, on cacao, tucupi and other ancestral foods. There's Vanessa Gomez. She is recovering antique fabrication techniques and making them timeless. I would get a lot of inspiration from music videos and plays in theaters that I later found out were all art directed by Orly Anan. She mixes a lot of pre-Columbian tradition with modern pop culture, resulting in aesthetics that for me are very, very inspiring. And they look very modern, yet you can still see the ancient in them. I was walking one day down the BeltLine in Atlanta, and I fell in love with the work of Lisette Correa as well. It spoke to me, and after I talked to her, I found out that she's also desperately trying to understand her Taino heritage through her work, not only through graffiti, but other mediums. She's trying to communicate to the world in a way that is very accessible, as graffiti is, all her knowledge and her findings, which she didn't know before. And there is Freddie Mamani, a self-taught architect from Bolivia. He does amazing things when he starts crossing his Aymara knowledge. He's actually an Aymara community member, and he crosses aesthetics from the Aymara graphics and fabrics with his love for sci-fi, and you can definitely see it in the outer parts of the buildings. The landscapes he’s built in Bolivia are things that make me daydream of the potential hidden within our cultures.
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