1 00:00:01,293 --> 00:00:04,171 IN EARLY 2020, A PANDEMIC SPREAD ACROSS THE GLOBE. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:04,254 --> 00:00:07,925 SOCIAL DISTANCING WAS ADOPTED BY HUNDREDS OF COUNTRIES 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:08,008 --> 00:00:11,136 AS A MEASURE TO REDUCE CONTAMINATION BY COVID-19. 6 00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:15,265 IN A MATTER OF DAYS, MILLIONS OF CHILDREN WERE SEPARATED 7 00:00:15,349 --> 00:00:17,476 FROM THEIR SCHOOLS, FRIENDS, RELATIVES, 8 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:19,686 AND FROM NATURE. 9 00:00:21,104 --> 00:00:25,359 THIS FILM WAS PRODUCED BEFORE THIS DIFFICULT MOMENT, 10 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:29,404 AND BECAME AN INVITATION FOR US TO IMAGINE THE OUTSIDE WORLD THAT WE WISH FOR. 11 00:00:36,787 --> 00:00:39,081 Let's see! Dig, dig, dig. 12 00:00:41,917 --> 00:00:43,794 Look, I found one! 13 00:00:43,877 --> 00:00:45,420 These are worms. 14 00:00:46,463 --> 00:00:48,131 I saw a worm! 15 00:00:48,215 --> 00:00:49,675 I'll get this one. 16 00:00:50,634 --> 00:00:53,053 -I'll get this one. -And I'll get this one. 17 00:00:53,762 --> 00:00:54,972 Look how many we got! 18 00:00:55,055 --> 00:00:57,599 So many! Did you find anything new? 19 00:00:57,683 --> 00:00:58,851 No. 20 00:00:59,393 --> 00:01:00,894 There's more, grab them. 21 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:04,398 Would you bury yourself with the worms? 22 00:01:04,481 --> 00:01:06,441 Yes, just like a mole. 23 00:01:06,984 --> 00:01:10,529 And, if worms don't have eyes, 24 00:01:10,612 --> 00:01:12,698 how do they see underground? 25 00:01:14,241 --> 00:01:15,659 I don't know. 26 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:17,995 You don't? How do you think they do? 27 00:01:19,913 --> 00:01:22,749 Well, I'll have to think like a worm. 28 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:27,171 I remember! 29 00:02:05,709 --> 00:02:08,962 We have learned from studies 30 00:02:09,046 --> 00:02:12,466 how much of evolution happened 31 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:15,385 solely because species interact. 32 00:02:15,469 --> 00:02:18,472 Interaction is the foundation of life. 33 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:22,643 It's a type of communication among all of the species. 34 00:02:29,858 --> 00:02:33,445 We've been living in contact with nature for thousands of years. 35 00:02:34,238 --> 00:02:37,574 Affection has always been present in this process. 36 00:02:38,033 --> 00:02:41,119 We weren't machines that treated nature 37 00:02:41,703 --> 00:02:44,081 in a mechanized way. 38 00:02:48,544 --> 00:02:50,003 But, as we move away from it, 39 00:02:50,087 --> 00:02:51,713 we lose the nature we have in ourselves... 40 00:02:51,797 --> 00:02:53,549 FOUNDER OF ANIA 41 00:02:53,632 --> 00:02:56,009 ...which is our human part. We're becoming inhuman. 42 00:02:56,093 --> 00:02:58,011 I think we've become numb, 43 00:02:58,095 --> 00:03:00,222 we've lost the ability to be amazed. 44 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:06,103 When we are kids, nature amazes us all the time. 45 00:03:20,742 --> 00:03:23,161 When the little ones begin to talk 46 00:03:23,245 --> 00:03:26,748 they have a sense of equality with things. 47 00:03:26,832 --> 00:03:29,168 EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTICES RESEARCHER 48 00:03:29,251 --> 00:03:32,963 This is called by some psychoanalysts "syncretic thought", 49 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:36,925 the kind of thought that contains no hierarchy: no single thing is the best. 50 00:03:37,009 --> 00:03:39,428 They have a deep feeling of equality with all beings. 51 00:03:48,812 --> 00:03:52,024 Childhood is a state that makes us capable... 52 00:03:52,107 --> 00:03:53,442 PH.D. IN PHILOSOPHY 53 00:03:53,525 --> 00:03:55,235 ...of reinventing nature, 54 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:57,946 of looking at the world with fresh eyes, 55 00:03:58,030 --> 00:04:02,534 of finding other ways that don't seem obvious. 56 00:04:08,832 --> 00:04:11,418 Now it's time for her shelter. 57 00:04:17,174 --> 00:04:19,259 Each child that arrives at the world 58 00:04:19,343 --> 00:04:21,678 is nature manifesting itself... 59 00:04:21,762 --> 00:04:23,680 PROFESSOR AT THE UNIRIO SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 60 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:26,725 ...again, and again, and again. 61 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,523 And how will those children be treated? 62 00:04:33,065 --> 00:04:34,608 That is the question. 63 00:05:15,858 --> 00:05:18,944 PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER 64 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:47,514 Our process of urbanization 65 00:05:47,598 --> 00:05:50,642 is based on the premises 66 00:05:50,726 --> 00:05:53,687 of cementing, verticalizing, restricting green areas, 67 00:05:53,770 --> 00:05:55,647 reducing recreation spaces. 68 00:05:55,731 --> 00:05:57,357 And children suffer the most. 69 00:06:00,402 --> 00:06:03,280 We're part of a society that has values... 70 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:05,240 COORDINATOR OF THE CRIANÇA E NATUREZA PROGRAM 71 00:06:05,324 --> 00:06:06,700 ...a concept of care 72 00:06:06,783 --> 00:06:09,953 that doesn't necessarily take nature as a core value. 73 00:06:12,789 --> 00:06:15,083 Our urbanization process 74 00:06:15,167 --> 00:06:20,005 is based on the logic of consumption and privatization of public areas. 75 00:06:29,473 --> 00:06:32,267 CO-FOUNDER AND CEO EMERITA 76 00:06:57,543 --> 00:07:00,796 I'll only let Catherin go out if it's very close by. 77 00:07:01,547 --> 00:07:05,801 I won't let her go alone from here to the square, no. 78 00:07:05,884 --> 00:07:08,387 Not even across the street to buy something. 79 00:07:08,804 --> 00:07:12,266 The space that Catherin has to play in is her house, her bedroom. 80 00:07:14,935 --> 00:07:19,606 In this neighborhood there's a bit of everything. 81 00:07:20,274 --> 00:07:23,026 But kids have nowhere to play, 82 00:07:23,110 --> 00:07:27,197 there's no space where we can go as a family, 83 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:29,074 no squares. 84 00:07:29,157 --> 00:07:33,036 When I was a kid my mother would say, "Get up and go have breakfast." 85 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,581 I'd get up, eat, wash my face, and leave. 86 00:07:35,664 --> 00:07:40,169 I spent the whole day outside playing catch, hide-and-seek, ball... 87 00:07:40,252 --> 00:07:45,048 Catherin gets up, brushes her teeth, sits on the sofa, and plays on her phone. 88 00:07:45,674 --> 00:07:47,384 Or watches television. 89 00:07:48,093 --> 00:07:51,680 Technology has consumed them too much. 90 00:07:51,763 --> 00:07:55,559 There are no recreational areas for them to play in. 91 00:08:07,196 --> 00:08:11,825 Kids are losing their childhood, 92 00:08:11,909 --> 00:08:14,703 their freedom, their rights, 93 00:08:14,786 --> 00:08:16,413 everything. 94 00:08:16,997 --> 00:08:18,207 Everything. 95 00:08:23,545 --> 00:08:25,339 Urban children 96 00:08:25,422 --> 00:08:28,884 are all somehow institutionalized 97 00:08:29,343 --> 00:08:32,012 when it comes to their time, what they do, 98 00:08:32,095 --> 00:08:35,390 where they play. 99 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,560 There's a time to do this and that. 100 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:41,647 We end up preventing children 101 00:08:41,730 --> 00:08:44,525 from freely creating an experience of fusion 102 00:08:44,608 --> 00:08:46,610 with the other. 103 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:50,989 And the other are the trees, the animals, the city, 104 00:08:51,073 --> 00:08:54,159 as much humanity as the city can offer 105 00:08:54,243 --> 00:08:56,537 for a child to move freely in. 106 00:09:01,458 --> 00:09:05,295 What is the itinerary of a child 107 00:09:05,379 --> 00:09:06,797 going from home to school? 108 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,299 They are at home, in a box. 109 00:09:09,383 --> 00:09:14,263 Apartments and houses have very few open-air areas after all. 110 00:09:14,346 --> 00:09:17,599 Then they enter a car, another box, 111 00:09:17,683 --> 00:09:20,394 and arrive at school, entering yet another box. 112 00:09:20,477 --> 00:09:22,604 When we think about it, 113 00:09:22,688 --> 00:09:27,192 we see that children spend 90% of their time indoors. 114 00:09:31,405 --> 00:09:34,241 I was very free. My siblings, my cousins, and I 115 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:36,285 played all kinds of games: 116 00:09:36,368 --> 00:09:41,206 kites, marbles, street luges... 117 00:09:41,290 --> 00:09:44,001 We were left to our own devices. 118 00:09:47,671 --> 00:09:51,175 It's funny that we had all this freedom 119 00:09:51,258 --> 00:09:54,428 and I'm so strict with Mateus, 120 00:09:54,511 --> 00:09:56,305 I keep him on a tight leash. 121 00:09:56,388 --> 00:10:00,642 And we know how nice it is to play, to run around, 122 00:10:00,726 --> 00:10:03,604 but, because of violence and all that's going on, 123 00:10:03,687 --> 00:10:07,149 we end up not letting Mateus go out on the street. 124 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:12,196 Mateus has no time outdoors, all things considered. 125 00:10:13,197 --> 00:10:15,324 He can't play during the week. 126 00:10:35,093 --> 00:10:37,721 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 127 00:11:07,167 --> 00:11:09,962 ANTHROPOLOGIST AND PRIMATOLOGIST 128 00:12:09,605 --> 00:12:13,108 My grandma used to say the river in our neighborhood was clean. 129 00:12:13,192 --> 00:12:15,319 She was always swimming in it. 130 00:12:15,736 --> 00:12:19,198 But now no one goes in, it's become a garbage dump. 131 00:12:19,740 --> 00:12:22,492 Do you or did you use to play on the street? 132 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:24,411 -No way! -No. 133 00:12:24,494 --> 00:12:27,456 If I play on the street I'll be run over by a car. 134 00:12:27,539 --> 00:12:32,669 When I'm at home all I can do is watch TV 135 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:35,088 and that's boring. 136 00:12:35,172 --> 00:12:38,342 What is very sad 137 00:12:39,009 --> 00:12:43,847 is that, since there's so much pollution, we can't breathe well. 138 00:12:43,931 --> 00:12:47,601 So, when I go to Tepoztlán, or Colombia, 139 00:12:47,684 --> 00:12:49,353 I breathe as much as I can. 140 00:12:51,813 --> 00:12:55,192 We are exposing children today, 141 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:56,860 in urban environments, 142 00:12:56,944 --> 00:12:59,238 to a number of challenges, demands, 143 00:12:59,321 --> 00:13:04,493 requirements, constraints that didn't exist before. 144 00:13:04,576 --> 00:13:07,496 Of course urban life has also brought advantages... 145 00:13:07,579 --> 00:13:09,665 PROFESSOR AND DOCTOR IN PUBLIC HEALTH 146 00:13:09,748 --> 00:13:13,168 ...access to cultural and educational goods, health care... 147 00:13:13,252 --> 00:13:17,381 But on the other hand, that comes with a high price to pay. 148 00:13:30,644 --> 00:13:33,772 AUTHOR OF LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS 149 00:14:06,305 --> 00:14:08,682 SÃO PAULO BRAZIL 150 00:14:17,858 --> 00:14:22,237 Patricia's head was always filled with thoughts. 151 00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:26,366 Her head was so full 152 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:28,994 that she needed to find someone 153 00:14:29,077 --> 00:14:32,372 with whom she could share 154 00:14:32,456 --> 00:14:35,542 her thoughts, her creativity. 155 00:15:34,852 --> 00:15:37,896 What's the sense in waking up a child, dressing them in uniform... 156 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:40,107 PLAY ARTIST AND OBSERVER OF CHILDREN'S CULTURE 157 00:15:40,190 --> 00:15:42,568 ...and leaving them in an enclosed space 158 00:15:42,651 --> 00:15:45,195 when their body and everything in them 159 00:15:45,279 --> 00:15:46,989 is telling them to move, 160 00:15:47,072 --> 00:15:50,409 to find nature, to touch the planet, 161 00:15:50,492 --> 00:15:51,827 to walk on the planet, 162 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:54,079 to turn the planet into a toy, 163 00:15:54,162 --> 00:15:56,832 to grow up nestled by nature? 164 00:16:05,340 --> 00:16:09,469 More and more in the school structure and its spaces, 165 00:16:10,721 --> 00:16:14,057 if there's a square inch of earth, it's torn down 166 00:16:14,141 --> 00:16:16,226 in order to build more infrastructure. 167 00:16:17,102 --> 00:16:18,562 Why is cement better? 168 00:16:18,645 --> 00:16:21,690 Because otherwise we'd need to take care of it, water it 169 00:16:21,773 --> 00:16:23,692 and children would get dirty. 170 00:16:23,775 --> 00:16:29,156 This makes schools start to look like factories or prisons. 171 00:16:31,450 --> 00:16:34,620 And a child that grows for 12 years in a space like this 172 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,206 will leave it to meet a world, 173 00:16:37,289 --> 00:16:40,751 and they'll look at a tree but won't see it, 174 00:16:41,376 --> 00:16:44,546 as it's never been a part of their worldview, 175 00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:46,423 of their life's ecosystem. 176 00:16:49,426 --> 00:16:51,720 Breaking school walls is hard. 177 00:16:52,179 --> 00:16:54,097 Why is that so? 178 00:16:55,432 --> 00:16:58,936 Because the space that is socially constructed 179 00:16:59,394 --> 00:17:04,191 to support this process of knowledge transfer, 180 00:17:04,274 --> 00:17:06,693 the so-called "teaching-learning", 181 00:17:06,777 --> 00:17:08,028 is the classroom. 182 00:17:08,779 --> 00:17:11,823 The outside is the space of nothingness. 183 00:17:21,250 --> 00:17:24,419 CHILD ENVIRONMENT & BEHAVIOR RESEARCHER 184 00:18:35,949 --> 00:18:38,493 NOVO HAMBURGO BRAZIL 185 00:18:54,468 --> 00:18:56,386 PUBLIC PRESCHOOL ERNEST SARLET 186 00:18:56,470 --> 00:18:59,264 Being inside four walls suffocates children. 187 00:19:00,015 --> 00:19:03,393 They cry to express that a space displeases them. 188 00:19:03,477 --> 00:19:05,312 When they repeatedly try to escape from a space... 189 00:19:05,395 --> 00:19:07,731 PRESCHOOL MANAGER 190 00:19:07,814 --> 00:19:11,193 ...it means that this space no longer suits their needs. 191 00:19:11,276 --> 00:19:14,363 They look out the window constantly. 192 00:19:14,446 --> 00:19:17,491 Those are all signs, 193 00:19:17,574 --> 00:19:20,077 a different way for children to tell us something 194 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,412 that we couldn't see before. 195 00:19:22,496 --> 00:19:24,998 Any animals up there? 196 00:19:25,082 --> 00:19:27,167 -Can't see anything? -No. 197 00:19:27,251 --> 00:19:29,545 -Isn't the butterfly there? -No. 198 00:19:29,962 --> 00:19:32,798 -Are there trees? -There are trees. 199 00:19:33,298 --> 00:19:36,510 Yeah? And who's going to slide down the slope today? 200 00:19:36,593 --> 00:19:38,804 -Me! -Me, me, me, me! 201 00:19:40,722 --> 00:19:43,058 I love wearing rubber boots. 202 00:19:47,354 --> 00:19:48,856 We're going! 203 00:19:53,068 --> 00:19:54,486 Let's go! 204 00:19:59,908 --> 00:20:03,495 Our experience here, of giving thought to school spaces, 205 00:20:03,579 --> 00:20:06,540 to the school's outdoor areas, 206 00:20:06,623 --> 00:20:09,418 is an experience of a public school system. 207 00:20:09,501 --> 00:20:11,712 Being in contact with nature, 208 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:15,090 coming outside every day, 209 00:20:15,174 --> 00:20:16,925 playing outdoors 210 00:20:17,009 --> 00:20:20,179 for a substantial amount of time every day. 211 00:20:20,262 --> 00:20:24,391 That's our choice for all preschools in this school system. 212 00:20:29,021 --> 00:20:30,731 Witch! 213 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:34,276 Where are you? 214 00:20:34,776 --> 00:20:37,362 I'm looking for you. 215 00:20:37,863 --> 00:20:39,615 Witch? 216 00:20:40,324 --> 00:20:42,117 She's not there. 217 00:20:42,201 --> 00:20:44,536 I always think that as rich as a classroom may be... 218 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:46,788 PRESCHOOL TEACHER 219 00:20:46,872 --> 00:20:48,832 ...it's never going to offer 220 00:20:48,916 --> 00:20:52,920 what the outside, the schoolyard, has to offer. 221 00:20:53,003 --> 00:20:54,713 Of course, it has to be a rich yard: 222 00:20:54,796 --> 00:20:58,884 an asphalt sports court is very poor. 223 00:20:58,967 --> 00:21:02,554 Life happens on the outside. 224 00:21:04,348 --> 00:21:07,351 When a child is playing outdoors 225 00:21:07,434 --> 00:21:09,561 all of their systems are engaged: 226 00:21:10,312 --> 00:21:14,358 balance, strength, courage, 227 00:21:14,441 --> 00:21:17,819 everything is there when we're doing an activity outside. 228 00:21:46,974 --> 00:21:49,393 One, two, three, go! 229 00:22:03,198 --> 00:22:06,451 PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 230 00:22:36,648 --> 00:22:39,318 There are no cars coming. 231 00:22:56,627 --> 00:22:58,462 Malaguzzi, who's an Italian educator... 232 00:22:58,545 --> 00:22:59,880 FOUNDER OF PÁTIO VIVO 233 00:22:59,963 --> 00:23:01,757 ...says that space is the third educator, 234 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,801 as it conveys and promotes things... 235 00:23:05,427 --> 00:23:09,223 It's great to see how children can find meaning 236 00:23:09,306 --> 00:23:13,852 in very simple elements, they'll create with what they have. 237 00:23:13,936 --> 00:23:17,356 We can guide them a little, but what's truly remarkable 238 00:23:17,439 --> 00:23:21,735 is seeing them transform things and give them new meaning. 239 00:23:22,152 --> 00:23:25,864 It's a fish! And I caught a shark. 240 00:23:26,365 --> 00:23:27,950 This is the shark. 241 00:23:36,750 --> 00:23:39,419 -It's still hot. -Still hot? 242 00:23:39,503 --> 00:23:40,838 Yes, it is. 243 00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:42,422 Let's eat now! 244 00:23:42,506 --> 00:23:45,092 No, you got to wait for it to cool down. 245 00:23:54,226 --> 00:23:57,145 I'm the mommy and you're the daddy 246 00:23:57,229 --> 00:24:00,190 and you're the son and you're the kitty, OK? 247 00:24:08,323 --> 00:24:10,325 This is going to light the fire. 248 00:24:43,525 --> 00:24:48,071 Teamwork. Let's put this in that huge shelter. 249 00:24:48,697 --> 00:24:50,574 Good morning, how are you? 250 00:24:53,118 --> 00:24:54,870 I think you place it like this. 251 00:25:21,063 --> 00:25:22,356 When children play, 252 00:25:22,439 --> 00:25:25,692 they learn things that aren't concepts. 253 00:25:25,776 --> 00:25:27,444 PLAY RESEARCHER 254 00:25:27,528 --> 00:25:32,324 They learn to acknowledge what's alive inside things. 255 00:26:01,937 --> 00:26:03,772 João, look at me! 256 00:26:03,856 --> 00:26:07,109 -Ew. -I'm a furry monster. 257 00:26:13,073 --> 00:26:16,326 In early childhood, they need to form relationships freely. 258 00:26:16,702 --> 00:26:19,663 We can't just set boundaries and say, 259 00:26:19,746 --> 00:26:22,332 "Spiders build webs for this and that reason." 260 00:26:23,542 --> 00:26:26,420 Is that the only reason it builds the web? 261 00:26:26,503 --> 00:26:28,839 How does the spider feel when building a web? 262 00:26:28,922 --> 00:26:30,174 Children relate to that. 263 00:26:30,716 --> 00:26:32,384 They create hypotheses about it. 264 00:26:32,467 --> 00:26:35,596 And it is important that they themselves try every possibility. 265 00:26:50,235 --> 00:26:52,070 It's burning! 266 00:29:47,663 --> 00:29:51,625 For them to learn, understand, unveil knowledge, 267 00:29:51,708 --> 00:29:54,294 their moving bodies have to be involved. 268 00:29:54,378 --> 00:29:56,839 That's what children's culture says. 269 00:29:59,675 --> 00:30:04,471 No content that's revolutionary or deeply transformative 270 00:30:05,305 --> 00:30:07,432 means anything for an inert body. 271 00:30:07,516 --> 00:30:12,354 There's no point in having a revolutionary brain 272 00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:15,357 in a body that's... 273 00:30:16,692 --> 00:30:17,818 meek. 274 00:30:28,245 --> 00:30:32,207 It's sad to watch children running and tripping over their own feet 275 00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:35,502 because they haven't developed their bodies well. 276 00:30:41,842 --> 00:30:46,388 These schoolyards were made flat to be extra safe, 277 00:30:46,471 --> 00:30:48,390 and the opposite happened: 278 00:30:48,473 --> 00:30:52,144 we're seeing children hurt themselves 279 00:30:52,227 --> 00:30:55,189 as they haven't developed well due to overprotection. 280 00:31:05,157 --> 00:31:07,284 When Thiago came to the school 281 00:31:07,367 --> 00:31:09,119 he'd go to the playground and wouldn't move. 282 00:31:09,203 --> 00:31:10,495 He just cried and cried. 283 00:31:10,579 --> 00:31:12,122 TEACHER 284 00:31:12,206 --> 00:31:16,043 Thus his face would get all messy and attract flies. 285 00:31:16,126 --> 00:31:17,961 We'd tell him to swat the flies from his face, 286 00:31:18,045 --> 00:31:20,088 but he cried and wouldn't even move. 287 00:31:20,172 --> 00:31:21,798 Now Thiago goes everywhere. 288 00:31:27,137 --> 00:31:28,263 This is fun! 289 00:31:28,347 --> 00:31:31,934 Last year we got a girl whose parents sold home-cooked food. 290 00:31:32,017 --> 00:31:35,437 She had nowhere to go, so she played on the living room carpet all day. 291 00:31:37,523 --> 00:31:40,150 When she learned how to run and felt safe running 292 00:31:40,234 --> 00:31:43,195 she'd fall down. She'd get clumsy and fall. 293 00:31:43,946 --> 00:31:48,700 One day her mother asked, "Why does she scrape her knee every day?" 294 00:31:48,784 --> 00:31:51,995 I said, "She's learning how to run. Now she has to learn how to fall!" 295 00:32:13,016 --> 00:32:14,142 Really? 296 00:32:15,102 --> 00:32:17,437 If I can see it, I'll just have to climb. 297 00:32:21,275 --> 00:32:24,027 Be careful on those stairs! 298 00:32:38,792 --> 00:32:41,962 PROFESSOR EMERITA IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 299 00:33:30,344 --> 00:33:34,181 This process of "urbanizing" life, so to speak, 300 00:33:34,264 --> 00:33:38,477 that controls urban spaces more and more 301 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,896 puts children's lives under tight control. 302 00:33:48,862 --> 00:33:52,741 Spaces where a child can run, 303 00:33:52,824 --> 00:33:53,992 play, jump around... 304 00:33:54,076 --> 00:33:55,661 INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY 305 00:33:55,744 --> 00:33:58,956 ...use their bodies' energy potential, 306 00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:01,458 know their bodies' potential, 307 00:34:01,542 --> 00:34:06,380 this has been tightly restricted during their development. 308 00:34:15,722 --> 00:34:17,516 Today I saw a mother 309 00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:19,685 who'd first been in my office when she was pregnant. 310 00:34:19,768 --> 00:34:22,229 PEDIATRICIAN, PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIAN, AND CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST 311 00:34:22,312 --> 00:34:24,648 She asked, "Can I really let my son sit on the grass?" 312 00:34:24,731 --> 00:34:27,734 "Won't he get ill? Can't there be germs there?" 313 00:34:29,027 --> 00:34:34,366 There's this widespread notion 314 00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:37,619 that nature is dirty, dangerous, 315 00:34:37,703 --> 00:34:40,831 and brings disease when, actually, the opposite is true. 316 00:34:49,715 --> 00:34:52,509 Our skin contains billions of bacteria 317 00:34:52,593 --> 00:34:55,846 and it benefits from this exchange with the natural environment. 318 00:35:03,145 --> 00:35:04,938 We know today, scientifically, 319 00:35:05,022 --> 00:35:09,776 that children who live in sterile bubbles 320 00:35:09,860 --> 00:35:11,737 get sick more often later on, 321 00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:14,072 are less prepared to fight infections, 322 00:35:14,156 --> 00:35:16,909 everyday infections can become serious for them 323 00:35:16,992 --> 00:35:20,579 and they tend to have more chronic and autoimmune diseases 324 00:35:20,662 --> 00:35:23,665 such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases. 325 00:35:32,925 --> 00:35:38,305 This conjunction of negative, oppressive factors on childhood, 326 00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:41,433 makes children symptomatic. 327 00:35:41,517 --> 00:35:44,811 They'll become disobedient, sleepless, 328 00:35:44,895 --> 00:35:48,774 they gain weight, misbehave, 329 00:35:48,857 --> 00:35:50,817 do poorly in school. 330 00:35:54,738 --> 00:35:58,075 And instead of looking at this childhood 331 00:35:58,158 --> 00:36:00,661 that is full of oppression 332 00:36:01,161 --> 00:36:03,705 and trying to revert the process 333 00:36:03,789 --> 00:36:06,750 making childhood more natural and healthy, 334 00:36:06,834 --> 00:36:10,629 we introduce another harmful element: medicalization. 335 00:36:24,101 --> 00:36:27,229 "Dad-dy..." 336 00:36:27,312 --> 00:36:29,606 "Daddy, I lo-- 337 00:36:30,315 --> 00:36:33,193 I love you." 338 00:36:33,277 --> 00:36:34,862 "Daddy, I love you." 339 00:36:37,906 --> 00:36:41,368 Mateus couldn't complete the activities. 340 00:36:41,451 --> 00:36:45,622 When he was around five, at late preschool, 341 00:36:45,706 --> 00:36:49,001 he started having trouble keeping up with school tasks. 342 00:36:49,084 --> 00:36:52,754 That is a burden on school routine. 343 00:36:52,838 --> 00:36:56,675 We started working with him 344 00:36:56,758 --> 00:36:59,678 to try to reach a diagnosis. 345 00:36:59,761 --> 00:37:01,972 But it's difficult, 346 00:37:02,055 --> 00:37:05,767 because the school has one view, health professionals have another. 347 00:37:05,851 --> 00:37:09,938 Reaching a diagnosis isn't as easy as we first thought. 348 00:37:10,022 --> 00:37:11,773 -Open all of them. -I will. 349 00:37:12,191 --> 00:37:13,734 All of them. 350 00:37:17,779 --> 00:37:21,533 The educational psychologist said it was dyslexia. 351 00:37:21,617 --> 00:37:26,038 The speech therapist said he had ADHD. 352 00:37:26,121 --> 00:37:29,833 The neurologist is examining him 353 00:37:29,917 --> 00:37:34,004 to settle the diagnosis on ADHD or dyslexia. 354 00:37:35,839 --> 00:37:38,509 And my child is there, in the middle of it all. 355 00:37:38,592 --> 00:37:41,637 "Now you have to do this." "Now you do that." 356 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:45,891 So last vacation we decided to put an end to all therapies: 357 00:37:45,974 --> 00:37:49,811 no speech therapy sessions, no psychologist appointments, nothing! 358 00:37:49,895 --> 00:37:53,815 He spent his vacation playing on the street. 359 00:37:53,899 --> 00:37:56,527 Flying kites, things that we... 360 00:37:56,610 --> 00:37:59,530 We were dead scared but we let him. 361 00:38:01,615 --> 00:38:04,159 One, two, one, two, three, go! 362 00:38:04,243 --> 00:38:05,577 I can do it. 363 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,503 It's amazing! Mateus didn't have a headache once during his vacation. 364 00:38:14,586 --> 00:38:16,588 We didn't have to take him to the ER. 365 00:38:16,672 --> 00:38:19,466 He played around in the cold, barefoot. 366 00:38:19,550 --> 00:38:22,135 Everything went well. 367 00:38:22,219 --> 00:38:23,846 He was really happy. 368 00:38:27,432 --> 00:38:29,685 Where's the stick? It's there. 369 00:38:33,397 --> 00:38:36,608 Children don't get sick on their own. 370 00:38:37,109 --> 00:38:40,112 When we consider the concepts of normality and disease: 371 00:38:40,195 --> 00:38:42,364 what are they in relation to? 372 00:38:42,447 --> 00:38:45,742 Who or what kind of environment are they in relation to? 373 00:38:45,826 --> 00:38:50,080 What are the expectations we have for that child? 374 00:38:50,163 --> 00:38:54,042 When a child falls sick, it's always within a context. 375 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,707 PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 376 00:41:24,526 --> 00:41:28,405 Ok, the fruit one is boring and so is this one. 377 00:41:31,909 --> 00:41:32,910 I know! 378 00:42:59,955 --> 00:43:02,457 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS 379 00:43:19,516 --> 00:43:21,768 ALFREDO VOLPI PARK SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL 380 00:43:21,852 --> 00:43:25,731 We're here today to have a very fun walk. 381 00:43:25,814 --> 00:43:28,984 We have to pay attention to the children. 382 00:43:29,067 --> 00:43:31,987 It's all about their time, their discoveries. 383 00:43:32,070 --> 00:43:34,781 They'll grab whatever they want from the ground, OK? 384 00:43:34,865 --> 00:43:37,201 What else is important? 385 00:43:38,202 --> 00:43:41,163 Ah, yes, no phones! 386 00:43:41,580 --> 00:43:44,917 Today we're connecting to the children and to nature. 387 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,378 That means today we'll be unplugged. 388 00:44:09,566 --> 00:44:11,818 -I want one! -Cool, huh? 389 00:44:28,168 --> 00:44:30,963 Let me smell it. Hm, that's nice! 390 00:44:31,046 --> 00:44:32,297 Look how noisy it is! 391 00:44:48,146 --> 00:44:50,774 It's crucial that we understand that time spent in nature 392 00:44:50,858 --> 00:44:54,403 is time invested in the well-being of a family. 393 00:44:54,486 --> 00:44:55,988 FORESTRY ENGINEER 394 00:44:56,071 --> 00:44:59,157 It's not only for children, but also for their parents. 395 00:44:59,616 --> 00:45:00,868 Is it difficult? Yes. 396 00:45:00,951 --> 00:45:03,036 For many people it is, no doubt. 397 00:45:03,412 --> 00:45:06,248 The great challenge is time. 398 00:45:06,331 --> 00:45:08,834 Time and having a mentoring adult. 399 00:45:08,917 --> 00:45:10,961 Someone with a more sensitive view. 400 00:46:15,150 --> 00:46:19,238 So many parents give us this kind of feedback: 401 00:46:19,321 --> 00:46:22,366 "It'd been so long since we'd felt a true connection." 402 00:46:23,116 --> 00:46:25,244 What does it mean to feel a true connection? 403 00:46:25,327 --> 00:46:27,329 To allow yourself to truly connect? 404 00:46:27,412 --> 00:46:31,208 Why don't I feel like I truly connect? 405 00:46:31,667 --> 00:46:34,920 What can being in this outside, free environment... 406 00:46:35,003 --> 00:46:37,005 EDUCATOR EXPERT IN EDUCATION AND NATURE 407 00:46:37,089 --> 00:46:38,841 ...allow to happen? 408 00:46:39,466 --> 00:46:41,301 Who's going underneath? 409 00:46:42,427 --> 00:46:44,930 Who's going underneath, who's going above? 410 00:46:53,355 --> 00:46:56,108 Can you reach it? Leo is below, too. 411 00:47:35,647 --> 00:47:37,691 We can even mitigate, 412 00:47:37,774 --> 00:47:41,069 on a smaller scale of families and schools, 413 00:47:41,153 --> 00:47:42,821 this longing for nature. 414 00:47:42,905 --> 00:47:46,575 We can increase the presence of nature on a family level, 415 00:47:46,658 --> 00:47:49,828 or on a school level 416 00:47:49,912 --> 00:47:52,289 with significant changes 417 00:47:52,372 --> 00:47:54,958 that aren't that difficult. 418 00:47:55,042 --> 00:47:56,668 But the biggest challenge 419 00:47:56,752 --> 00:48:00,214 and the one that's going to make a difference from now on 420 00:48:00,297 --> 00:48:03,800 for children in 10, 15, 20 years' time 421 00:48:03,884 --> 00:48:05,469 is the urban environment. 422 00:48:05,969 --> 00:48:09,973 We need cities that have more green integrated. 423 00:48:10,057 --> 00:48:13,727 We need friendlier cities. 424 00:48:51,098 --> 00:48:52,391 Want to try? 425 00:48:55,936 --> 00:48:58,897 These tadpoles aren't helping. 426 00:48:59,940 --> 00:49:01,316 Did you see the tadpoles? 427 00:49:30,387 --> 00:49:34,016 AMADEU DECOME SQUARE SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL 428 00:49:36,935 --> 00:49:39,688 Some water... Here. 429 00:49:39,771 --> 00:49:43,400 When my daughter was three months old 430 00:49:43,483 --> 00:49:45,986 we moved to a house in front of a square 431 00:49:46,361 --> 00:49:50,157 and she began to use that area as she grew. 432 00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:51,617 BOA PRAÇA MOVEMENT 433 00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:53,744 When she was four years old 434 00:49:53,827 --> 00:49:57,539 I realized she'd bloomed, learned thousands of things: 435 00:49:57,623 --> 00:50:00,667 to walk, climb, talk, 436 00:50:00,751 --> 00:50:04,588 and the square had simply decayed. That bothered me. 437 00:50:04,671 --> 00:50:08,300 I decided I wanted to do something. 438 00:50:08,383 --> 00:50:13,514 That's when I started looking into what we could do and how. 439 00:50:14,556 --> 00:50:16,892 This was another picnic. 440 00:50:18,185 --> 00:50:22,606 We began to have picnics regularly in the neighborhood squares. 441 00:50:22,689 --> 00:50:24,525 Every last Sunday of the month. 442 00:50:24,608 --> 00:50:26,568 And we arrived at a motto: 443 00:50:26,652 --> 00:50:31,490 to try and leave the square better than when we came in. 444 00:50:32,783 --> 00:50:35,619 As we used the squares for our picnics 445 00:50:35,702 --> 00:50:39,998 we realized we could make several improvements ourselves, 446 00:50:40,082 --> 00:50:41,291 among neighbors. 447 00:50:41,375 --> 00:50:45,838 Talents sprung as we got to know the people. 448 00:50:46,713 --> 00:50:51,176 There were also structural issues, related to mobility, 449 00:50:51,260 --> 00:50:56,598 water draining, more complex tasks. 450 00:50:56,682 --> 00:51:00,435 That's when we started to look for alternatives 451 00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:03,313 and ask for more from the public authorities. 452 00:51:03,397 --> 00:51:07,484 And we began to look into what could be done 453 00:51:07,568 --> 00:51:09,278 to get those improvements. 454 00:51:12,990 --> 00:51:15,951 Whenever there's a picnic I'm happy 455 00:51:16,743 --> 00:51:20,455 because I know I'll get in touch 456 00:51:20,539 --> 00:51:23,876 with all this nature thing again. 457 00:51:24,668 --> 00:51:27,838 When I come here, I realize I was very apart 458 00:51:27,921 --> 00:51:32,968 from this whole other world. 459 00:51:33,051 --> 00:51:36,513 I look at one side and I see too many cars, too much noise. 460 00:51:36,597 --> 00:51:42,311 I look at the other, I see a bunch of trees, a small forest. 461 00:51:42,895 --> 00:51:46,481 That's what I like more. 462 00:51:53,113 --> 00:51:55,699 Almost every time I go to a square to do some work 463 00:51:55,782 --> 00:51:58,035 I ask the question, "Who owns a square?" 464 00:51:58,118 --> 00:52:00,787 There are usually two answers: 465 00:52:00,871 --> 00:52:03,123 "Everyone" or "nobody". 466 00:52:03,540 --> 00:52:06,251 Which I think are similar answers. 467 00:52:06,335 --> 00:52:09,713 Because "everyone" and "no one" are never "me". 468 00:52:09,796 --> 00:52:12,466 But I think my children consider this "their" square. 469 00:52:19,765 --> 00:52:21,934 All right, let's make a... Right here, look. 470 00:52:22,017 --> 00:52:26,605 A city that can give the streets back to the children, nowadays, 471 00:52:26,688 --> 00:52:30,776 is a city with lower levels of violence, 472 00:52:30,859 --> 00:52:33,570 a city that has public spaces 473 00:52:33,654 --> 00:52:36,615 where there's a balance between traffic flow 474 00:52:36,698 --> 00:52:40,619 and use of streets for recreational purposes. 475 00:52:40,702 --> 00:52:42,663 Being outdoors on the streets 476 00:52:42,746 --> 00:52:46,250 is easily related to a good quality childhood 477 00:52:46,333 --> 00:52:47,793 and also good city management. 478 00:52:47,876 --> 00:52:49,127 COORDINATOR OF THE CRIANÇA E NATUREZA PROGRAM 479 00:53:00,222 --> 00:53:01,849 For a neighborhood to become a community, 480 00:53:01,932 --> 00:53:05,060 public spaces have to be the meeting point. 481 00:53:05,143 --> 00:53:06,645 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 482 00:53:06,728 --> 00:53:09,690 If they aren't, there'll never be a spirit of community in a neighborhood. 483 00:53:12,526 --> 00:53:16,697 When they have nowhere to meet outside the house, 484 00:53:16,780 --> 00:53:20,075 children and teens stay inside, 485 00:53:20,158 --> 00:53:23,537 turning private spaces into collective ones. 486 00:53:23,620 --> 00:53:26,957 And public spaces that, in general, are grey areas... 487 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,375 R&D DIRECTOR 488 00:53:28,458 --> 00:53:32,129 ...can become focal points 489 00:53:32,546 --> 00:53:34,381 of community danger. 490 00:53:41,263 --> 00:53:43,891 There are currently nine neighborhoods that concentrate 491 00:53:43,974 --> 00:53:47,603 50% of the green area in Santiago. 492 00:53:47,686 --> 00:53:51,565 And all the others, more than 40 neighborhoods, 493 00:53:51,648 --> 00:53:54,151 share the other half of the green area. 494 00:54:16,340 --> 00:54:19,134 IDA B. WELLS HOMES CHICAGO - USA 495 00:56:01,945 --> 00:56:05,407 BILLINGS DAM SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL 496 00:56:16,043 --> 00:56:18,504 My parents... Children's parents in general 497 00:56:18,587 --> 00:56:21,048 are usually very worried about safety. 498 00:56:21,131 --> 00:56:25,302 Wherever you go, there's a robbery or something similar. 499 00:56:25,385 --> 00:56:27,304 My father doesn't let me go out. 500 00:56:27,387 --> 00:56:31,391 When I ask him, he either tells me to ask my mother 501 00:56:31,475 --> 00:56:33,602 or says nothing, just shakes his head. 502 00:56:34,478 --> 00:56:37,814 But I like playing very much. I like to be free. 503 00:56:38,190 --> 00:56:41,527 No way I'd stay inside doing nothing. 504 00:56:58,460 --> 00:57:01,505 In our neighborhood we used to have... 505 00:57:02,047 --> 00:57:04,633 we still have very few recreational areas. 506 00:57:05,092 --> 00:57:06,760 We, as kids, always tried... 507 00:57:06,844 --> 00:57:08,595 PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATOR 508 00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:12,307 ...to find spaces to play in wherever they should be. 509 00:57:12,391 --> 00:57:14,810 Where we'd like them to be: 510 00:57:14,893 --> 00:57:16,979 our street, our field... 511 00:57:22,150 --> 00:57:25,487 Sailing in São Paulo is already unusual, 512 00:57:25,571 --> 00:57:29,199 but sailing in the outskirts of São Paulo is extraordinary. 513 00:57:44,548 --> 00:57:46,008 When I started sailing 514 00:57:46,091 --> 00:57:48,802 it changed my view of the world. 515 00:57:48,886 --> 00:57:51,513 -I'd been afraid of dipping my feet... -Me too. 516 00:57:51,597 --> 00:57:52,890 ...or hands in the water. 517 00:57:52,973 --> 00:57:55,475 Before I started sailing, I thought the dam was garbage. 518 00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:58,103 It was dirty, gross, smelly, 519 00:57:58,187 --> 00:57:59,771 full of trash. 520 00:58:00,647 --> 00:58:03,650 -What's this one called? -Mast. 521 00:58:03,734 --> 00:58:05,360 Mast. And this one? 522 00:58:05,444 --> 00:58:06,445 Boom. 523 00:58:06,528 --> 00:58:08,113 -And this one? -Sail. 524 00:58:08,197 --> 00:58:11,366 You've noticed that this boat has no motor, right? 525 00:58:11,450 --> 00:58:15,412 This is a sailboat, it's pushed forward by the wind. 526 00:58:31,345 --> 00:58:35,432 When I'm on a boat, I feel much freer, more peaceful. 527 00:58:35,933 --> 00:58:39,311 We let go of all negativity we were carrying. 528 00:58:39,394 --> 00:58:42,105 It puts you in a completely different mood. 529 00:58:43,857 --> 00:58:47,945 It's a moment that's all yours. 530 00:58:51,865 --> 00:58:55,661 Sailing, to me, is above all a sport. 531 00:58:55,744 --> 00:59:00,457 It's initially all about connecting to your body, 532 00:59:00,541 --> 00:59:04,044 learning things, overcoming difficulties. 533 00:59:04,378 --> 00:59:08,549 We build, little by little, this relationship with the boat, 534 00:59:08,632 --> 00:59:11,802 with sailing, with occupying the dam, 535 00:59:11,885 --> 00:59:14,680 with looking around our territory. 536 00:59:20,060 --> 00:59:23,146 This neighborhood is already perfect to me. 537 00:59:23,230 --> 00:59:27,276 I'd like it to have a few more trees, though. 538 00:59:27,359 --> 00:59:29,361 And not to be as polluted as it is. 539 00:59:29,444 --> 00:59:33,198 What I'd really like would be for this dam to be very clean. 540 00:59:33,282 --> 00:59:36,076 So clean that we'd be able to drink the water. 541 00:59:42,875 --> 00:59:46,461 For previous generations it was clear, 542 00:59:46,545 --> 00:59:50,090 especially for people who lived close to nature, 543 00:59:50,465 --> 00:59:52,885 that we and nature are totally interdependent. 544 00:59:52,968 --> 00:59:57,306 What happens to plants, animals, and the whole environment 545 00:59:57,389 --> 00:59:59,099 will also happen to us. 546 00:59:59,183 --> 01:00:01,643 Over time, we came to lose this perception. 547 01:00:01,727 --> 01:00:03,854 We feel that what happens to nature 548 01:00:03,937 --> 01:00:06,231 won't necessarily happen to us. 549 01:00:06,315 --> 01:00:07,983 If our water is contaminated, 550 01:00:08,066 --> 01:00:11,528 I'll drink from my plastic water bottle, no problem. 551 01:00:11,987 --> 01:00:15,574 The air may be polluted, but not inside my house, 552 01:00:15,657 --> 01:00:17,826 only outside. 553 01:00:18,327 --> 01:00:20,120 And we know that isn't true. 554 01:00:20,204 --> 01:00:24,208 But we have a way of thinking, an "operating system", 555 01:00:24,291 --> 01:00:29,588 that says we don't depend on nature for our well-being. 556 01:00:29,671 --> 01:00:32,132 That is the great issue. 557 01:00:46,688 --> 01:00:49,316 The question that remains for all of us is, 558 01:00:50,150 --> 01:00:52,361 "Am I being a good ancestor?" 559 01:00:53,820 --> 01:00:57,574 "How much are my actions of today 560 01:00:57,658 --> 01:00:59,910 defining my descendants' lives?" 561 01:00:59,993 --> 01:01:02,037 NATURE LEARNING FACILITATOR 562 01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:06,583 My own descendants and the ones of my species. 563 01:01:14,132 --> 01:01:17,886 There was a study done a few years ago 564 01:01:18,345 --> 01:01:22,683 where children were asked to draw what they thought represented nature. 565 01:01:22,766 --> 01:01:24,476 Children from various locations. 566 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,564 These children were five to eight years old. 567 01:01:28,647 --> 01:01:30,524 The conclusion was very interesting. 568 01:01:30,607 --> 01:01:34,903 The Herero are a people that live in villages between Namibia and Angola. 569 01:01:34,987 --> 01:01:38,782 Some Herero children, when drawing three things 570 01:01:38,866 --> 01:01:40,492 that looked like nature, 571 01:01:40,576 --> 01:01:45,330 drew not only the sun, but their hand, foot, mother... 572 01:01:45,414 --> 01:01:49,126 Yanomami children, who are closer to us, also drew their hand, foot, 573 01:01:49,209 --> 01:01:51,545 their own mother, themselves. 574 01:01:51,628 --> 01:01:54,506 Children from Kentucky, New York, and São Paulo 575 01:01:54,590 --> 01:01:57,384 drew a sun, a tree, a bird. 576 01:01:57,467 --> 01:01:59,261 That occurred regularly. 577 01:01:59,344 --> 01:02:00,846 Not because of the children, 578 01:02:00,929 --> 01:02:04,641 but because of a culture that involves and constitutes them, 579 01:02:04,725 --> 01:02:08,187 which makes them think that nature is the "other". 580 01:02:11,064 --> 01:02:13,775 MEXICO CITY MEXICO 581 01:02:23,202 --> 01:02:28,498 We need to realize that Earth is our best teacher. 582 01:02:28,999 --> 01:02:31,668 Nature makes things perfectly 583 01:02:31,752 --> 01:02:33,545 and the universe is proof of that. 584 01:02:37,424 --> 01:02:39,801 So why not put children... 585 01:02:39,885 --> 01:02:41,261 FOUNDER 586 01:02:41,345 --> 01:02:45,724 ...inside a living lab that is a garden, so that they can learn from it? 587 01:02:49,770 --> 01:02:51,772 Yay. I love this. 588 01:02:53,941 --> 01:02:57,194 -This one? -Yes, let's water the plants. 589 01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,221 Where are the worms? 590 01:03:24,304 --> 01:03:27,558 -They're in their homes. -Why? 591 01:03:28,058 --> 01:03:30,018 So we can see them, take care of them, 592 01:03:30,102 --> 01:03:33,814 they can give us their poo to feed the plants, remember? 593 01:03:33,897 --> 01:03:37,943 There's no sun shining on them there. 594 01:03:38,026 --> 01:03:43,240 -Exactly. -Is worm poo hard? 595 01:03:43,323 --> 01:03:45,033 Look at their poo. 596 01:03:47,286 --> 01:03:48,829 What do you think? 597 01:03:48,912 --> 01:03:51,164 I didn't know they pooed. 598 01:03:51,248 --> 01:03:52,791 Of course they poo! 599 01:03:54,626 --> 01:03:56,253 I want to touch them. 600 01:03:56,336 --> 01:03:58,463 -Me too! -Give it to me! 601 01:03:59,173 --> 01:04:01,008 I can feel it. 602 01:04:09,308 --> 01:04:12,436 Through autonomous work on the garden, 603 01:04:12,519 --> 01:04:16,064 children acquire some authentic ecology. 604 01:04:19,276 --> 01:04:24,156 They start to watch the garden's needs themselves. 605 01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:28,202 For example, when the bucket of sifted compost is empty, 606 01:04:28,285 --> 01:04:33,248 they'll decide to sift more compost themselves, 607 01:04:33,332 --> 01:04:35,501 because that's what the garden needs. 608 01:04:38,629 --> 01:04:41,965 Children learn to take care 609 01:04:42,382 --> 01:04:45,969 of their habitat, of the natural world, 610 01:04:46,053 --> 01:04:49,973 and, in a way, they learn to take care of themselves. 611 01:05:26,635 --> 01:05:30,806 XOCHIMILCO LAKE MEXICO CITY 612 01:05:37,563 --> 01:05:40,983 This whole process brings a great feeling, 613 01:05:41,066 --> 01:05:45,112 because you plant the seeds, then transplant them, 614 01:05:45,195 --> 01:05:48,991 then you wait, it grows, and you can eat it. 615 01:05:53,829 --> 01:05:58,333 It's very important to know where things come from. 616 01:05:58,417 --> 01:06:01,962 Otherwise, we don't know where we come from. 617 01:06:02,045 --> 01:06:05,090 We come from the earth, 618 01:06:05,174 --> 01:06:06,800 not the other way around. 619 01:06:07,259 --> 01:06:09,386 PIER 620 01:06:13,307 --> 01:06:15,475 Here, in Mexico valley, 621 01:06:15,559 --> 01:06:18,270 the Xochimilca started to build chinampas, 622 01:06:18,353 --> 01:06:23,567 which are islands made with mud and sticks, 623 01:06:24,443 --> 01:06:28,655 to open a space of fertile land for them to plant. 624 01:06:30,699 --> 01:06:33,493 So I began to tell the children 625 01:06:33,577 --> 01:06:36,413 where their agricultural tradition comes from. 626 01:06:45,714 --> 01:06:48,675 Look, here we have parsley, 627 01:06:48,759 --> 01:06:51,553 mustard, rutabaga, broccoli, 628 01:06:51,637 --> 01:06:54,973 mizuna, cauliflower, borage, and beetroot. 629 01:06:56,808 --> 01:06:59,436 I've worked with several generations, 630 01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:03,982 since they're 18 months till 12 years old. 631 01:07:04,691 --> 01:07:07,236 And the children that leave here when they're 12 632 01:07:07,319 --> 01:07:10,531 feel very connected to nature, 633 01:07:13,700 --> 01:07:16,370 because they feel it's part of their lives, 634 01:07:16,453 --> 01:07:19,289 part of their school, their routine. 635 01:07:19,373 --> 01:07:21,291 This one's ready to pick. 636 01:07:21,375 --> 01:07:24,127 Slowly. Right. 637 01:07:50,821 --> 01:07:53,824 BELO HORIZONTE BRAZIL 638 01:07:59,621 --> 01:08:02,082 The "de-naturalness" of cities, 639 01:08:02,165 --> 01:08:06,545 the confinement lived by most children and teenagers, 640 01:08:06,628 --> 01:08:08,839 the restriction of space, 641 01:08:09,548 --> 01:08:14,052 impoverishes teens' life experiences a lot, in my opinion. 642 01:08:14,136 --> 01:08:15,470 PRINCIPAL AT ESCOLA DA SERRA 643 01:08:15,554 --> 01:08:20,434 They are used to thinking, as asserted by our consumer society, 644 01:08:20,517 --> 01:08:24,813 that life depends on hoarding a huge pile of stuff. 645 01:08:30,569 --> 01:08:34,406 To me, going camping means being in a place 646 01:08:34,489 --> 01:08:37,492 where you're away from society 647 01:08:37,576 --> 01:08:39,912 and have some time to think. 648 01:08:42,414 --> 01:08:45,250 Here in school there's recess and we have our phones. 649 01:08:45,334 --> 01:08:48,837 We play mobile games and use our phones while we're talking. 650 01:08:48,921 --> 01:08:52,007 When we were camping, there was nothing else to look at, 651 01:08:52,090 --> 01:08:54,009 so we looked people in the eye. 652 01:08:54,092 --> 01:08:57,429 And I realized it's a whole other experience 653 01:08:57,513 --> 01:09:00,432 to talk while watching TV or looking at your phone 654 01:09:00,516 --> 01:09:03,852 instead of having just you and the other person. 655 01:09:03,936 --> 01:09:05,229 I thought it was pretty cool. 656 01:09:22,329 --> 01:09:25,874 SERRA DO CIPÓ MINAS GERAIS - BRAZIL 657 01:09:26,458 --> 01:09:30,587 A few years ago, some parents and teachers insisted 658 01:09:30,671 --> 01:09:34,383 we should try to use the camping trip 659 01:09:34,466 --> 01:09:37,594 to deliver some school content. 660 01:09:37,678 --> 01:09:40,389 I asked, "Why formal curriculum subjects?" 661 01:09:40,472 --> 01:09:43,350 There's a lot of learning here. Life learning. 662 01:09:49,648 --> 01:09:53,151 I start feeling maybe sweat, maybe mosquitoes, I don't know. 663 01:09:53,235 --> 01:09:55,863 Be careful, I don't want to eat fingers! 664 01:10:02,995 --> 01:10:07,833 Adults think we're capable of much less 665 01:10:07,916 --> 01:10:09,960 than we actually are. 666 01:10:25,517 --> 01:10:28,145 I think one thing that changed 667 01:10:28,228 --> 01:10:31,773 is that I got much more self-confident. 668 01:10:31,857 --> 01:10:35,569 I felt much more independent. 669 01:10:41,325 --> 01:10:45,245 When I arrived, I saw it was all open space. 670 01:10:45,329 --> 01:10:48,874 We could do whatever we wanted: walk, run... 671 01:10:49,208 --> 01:10:51,502 We're free, basically. 672 01:10:51,585 --> 01:10:55,047 It's the opposite of being in the city. 673 01:10:55,797 --> 01:10:58,675 It's a great feeling: 674 01:10:58,759 --> 01:11:00,636 being really free. 675 01:12:26,722 --> 01:12:30,893 Everything's so beautiful here, and so many people don't even know it. 676 01:12:30,976 --> 01:12:32,311 That's very sad. 677 01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:37,733 This is how the world originally is. 678 01:12:38,525 --> 01:12:41,445 If you don't know a place 679 01:12:41,528 --> 01:12:46,325 that hasn't changed in a million years, 680 01:12:46,408 --> 01:12:49,077 you don't really know the world. 681 01:12:50,078 --> 01:12:52,789 You may have been to all the world's capitals, 682 01:12:52,873 --> 01:12:54,750 but if you've never been to a place like this, 683 01:12:54,833 --> 01:12:56,335 you don't know the world. 684 01:13:04,635 --> 01:13:07,137 Midnight and our tent was disassembled on the floor. 685 01:13:07,679 --> 01:13:11,308 Marcia was asleep. Then Edivaldo arrived. 686 01:13:11,391 --> 01:13:13,060 That was around 4 a.m. 687 01:13:13,435 --> 01:13:16,396 He said, "You kids are making too much noise!" 688 01:13:16,480 --> 01:13:19,483 Then we told him our tent was disassembled. 689 01:13:43,090 --> 01:13:46,510 SALTO MORATO RESERVE PARANÁ - BRAZIL 690 01:15:48,590 --> 01:15:49,675 Dude! 691 01:15:50,384 --> 01:15:51,718 A spider! 692 01:16:00,018 --> 01:16:01,478 Four, five, six, seven... 693 01:16:01,562 --> 01:16:02,813 Hey, look at this! 694 01:16:02,896 --> 01:16:05,440 Hah! I want to see who's brave enough 695 01:16:05,524 --> 01:16:07,442 to find out if this is soft. 696 01:16:07,526 --> 01:16:09,361 -It's soft. -It's soft? 697 01:16:09,444 --> 01:16:11,947 -Is this trash? -No, it's mud. 698 01:16:13,115 --> 01:16:15,284 When we bring a child here 699 01:16:15,367 --> 01:16:18,245 and try to make it an amazing, memorable experience for them... 700 01:16:18,328 --> 01:16:20,497 ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SALTO MORATO RESERVE 701 01:16:20,581 --> 01:16:23,333 ...they leave with what I call a warm heart. 702 01:16:23,417 --> 01:16:27,462 Because they had an incredible day that they'll remember as adults. 703 01:16:27,546 --> 01:16:29,923 That’s transformative for a child. 704 01:16:30,007 --> 01:16:33,177 That may connect them to conservation. 705 01:16:49,735 --> 01:16:52,112 Nature is everything to us. 706 01:16:52,779 --> 01:16:54,781 I feel free 707 01:16:54,865 --> 01:16:57,743 to do so much: 708 01:16:57,826 --> 01:17:00,078 play, run... 709 01:17:00,495 --> 01:17:03,123 To me, nature is... 710 01:17:04,416 --> 01:17:05,626 home. 711 01:19:31,396 --> 01:19:33,774 When I get up in the morning, 712 01:19:33,857 --> 01:19:36,610 the first thing I do is talk to my plants. 713 01:19:36,693 --> 01:19:40,113 I tell them nice things like, 714 01:19:40,197 --> 01:19:43,575 "You look so beautiful!" "How you've grown!" 715 01:19:43,659 --> 01:19:48,705 "I'll water you so that you can grow 716 01:19:48,789 --> 01:19:54,169 to be as tall as trees." 717 01:19:54,253 --> 01:19:55,796 They're like my children, 718 01:19:55,879 --> 01:19:58,465 they have a life of their own. 719 01:20:01,218 --> 01:20:04,471 In my heart, I feel like they talk to me. 720 01:20:06,807 --> 01:20:08,976 MY LITTLE NATURE 721 01:20:09,059 --> 01:20:11,728 There was a time I was trying to define "environment", 722 01:20:11,812 --> 01:20:13,564 give it an actual definition. 723 01:20:13,647 --> 01:20:16,275 I was in a meeting with children and a girl asked, 724 01:20:16,358 --> 01:20:21,321 "Joaquín, are the butterflies in my stomach part of biodiversity?" 725 01:20:21,780 --> 01:20:23,657 I said, "Wow!" 726 01:20:24,116 --> 01:20:27,327 That's when I understood that the environment 727 01:20:27,411 --> 01:20:29,997 is not just the natural and social surroundings, 728 01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:32,624 but also the emotional context. 729 01:20:32,708 --> 01:20:37,588 No one, with all their intelligence, technology, or money, 730 01:20:37,671 --> 01:20:41,300 will substitute what children feel when they climb a tree. 731 01:20:41,842 --> 01:20:44,261 Or when they're running around on the grass, 732 01:20:44,344 --> 01:20:46,680 fall down, then get up and everything's fine. 733 01:20:46,763 --> 01:20:51,143 They see their parents are calm and say, "Wow, this place is for me." 734 01:20:53,562 --> 01:20:55,689 The question is how to gather efforts 735 01:20:55,772 --> 01:20:59,568 to begin to rescue, value nature 736 01:20:59,651 --> 01:21:04,239 and take real action to make nature more accessible to children. 737 01:21:07,951 --> 01:21:11,872 Children Land is a space that adults are giving children 738 01:21:11,955 --> 01:21:16,084 to take care of, create life, play 739 01:21:16,168 --> 01:21:18,754 and generate well-being for themselves, others, and nature, 740 01:21:18,837 --> 01:21:20,881 with their own language and colors, 741 01:21:20,964 --> 01:21:22,466 sharing messages. 742 01:21:23,592 --> 01:21:25,385 Where does this come from? 743 01:21:25,469 --> 01:21:28,555 From my backyard, my childhood. That was the first flower. 744 01:21:41,652 --> 01:21:43,904 COMMUNITY TIERRA DE LOS NINOS - TINI LITTLE RANGERS 745 01:21:43,987 --> 01:21:46,031 WELCOME 746 01:21:52,162 --> 01:21:53,747 It ate it! 747 01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:01,296 I live in the district of Comas, in Peru's capital, Lima. 748 01:22:02,256 --> 01:22:05,759 There are few green areas and lots of dust here... 749 01:22:05,843 --> 01:22:07,427 TINI LITTLE RANGERS 750 01:22:07,511 --> 01:22:11,473 ...and it's on a hillside. 751 01:22:12,516 --> 01:22:15,310 The neighborhood is a little dangerous. 752 01:22:15,394 --> 01:22:19,314 Here, children don't have areas to play in. 753 01:22:19,398 --> 01:22:25,445 So they need to seek other areas to distract themselves or play. 754 01:22:30,909 --> 01:22:35,289 You have to mix the soil to plant. 755 01:22:35,372 --> 01:22:38,208 We separate it and make another line. 756 01:22:38,292 --> 01:22:41,795 Since I was a child, I wanted to create a green area. 757 01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:46,466 I felt it should be a place to be shared. 758 01:22:46,550 --> 01:22:50,387 So I started to paint rocks with children from my neighborhood. 759 01:22:50,470 --> 01:22:52,389 We were 10, then 15, 760 01:22:52,472 --> 01:22:54,683 and, in the end, we were 50 children. 761 01:22:54,766 --> 01:22:58,562 My father wanted to kick us out of the house, as we were so messy. 762 01:22:58,645 --> 01:23:01,148 We started cleaning this whole area. 763 01:23:01,231 --> 01:23:03,692 No one believed there'd be a small park here. 764 01:23:04,026 --> 01:23:07,529 It looks like a family of worms. 765 01:23:07,613 --> 01:23:11,200 Worms are a protein source for the chickens. 766 01:23:13,493 --> 01:23:16,496 We consider this space the starting point 767 01:23:16,580 --> 01:23:20,209 to make our society better. 768 01:23:21,793 --> 01:23:24,379 If the environment is well, you'll be well 769 01:23:24,463 --> 01:23:27,090 and so will other people. 770 01:23:27,174 --> 01:23:29,009 SHARE 771 01:23:29,092 --> 01:23:30,761 HAVE FUN 772 01:23:40,521 --> 01:23:43,065 GOOD MORNING! 773 01:23:44,107 --> 01:23:47,361 IMAGINE - BLOOM PLAY 774 01:24:41,665 --> 01:24:45,252 Imagine living in a world where everyone is happy. 775 01:24:45,878 --> 01:24:47,379 How would that be? 776 01:24:50,966 --> 01:24:53,802 I'd like very much if the city 777 01:24:53,886 --> 01:24:56,763 had trees, 778 01:24:56,847 --> 01:25:00,726 green areas, many types of plants. 779 01:25:01,810 --> 01:25:05,355 I'd like the hills to have plants on them, 780 01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:07,649 then they would be green. 781 01:25:07,733 --> 01:25:11,278 It'd be prettier that way. And more colorful. 782 01:25:11,820 --> 01:25:16,450 We could have a rainbow to improve the background. With the sun... 783 01:25:17,034 --> 01:25:19,411 Yes, it'd be much better. 784 01:25:19,494 --> 01:25:22,539 I'd also like for the city to be clean 785 01:25:22,623 --> 01:25:27,377 so we wouldn't get sick, 786 01:25:27,461 --> 01:25:29,755 we'd live better. 787 01:25:29,838 --> 01:25:34,092 I'd also like for us to have a beautiful scenery. 788 01:25:34,426 --> 01:25:35,511 Yes. 789 01:25:47,272 --> 01:25:49,900 BE PART OF THIS MOVEMENT 790 01:25:58,075 --> 01:26:00,953 THIS FILM WAS PRODUCED BEFORE THE ONSET OF THE PANDEMIC. 791 01:26:01,036 --> 01:26:04,331 WE'VE SINCE HAD VIDEO CALLS WITH CHILDREN WHO WERE PART OF THE FILM 792 01:26:04,414 --> 01:26:07,000 TO CHECK HOW THEY WERE FARING DURING THIS PERIOD. 793 01:26:07,668 --> 01:26:10,754 It's one thing to enjoy being alone 794 01:26:10,838 --> 01:26:13,131 when it's by choice. 795 01:26:13,757 --> 01:26:16,343 Everybody likes being alone from time to time. 796 01:26:16,677 --> 01:26:20,305 But if that isolation comes as something inevitable, 797 01:26:21,473 --> 01:26:24,935 it gradually turns into... 798 01:26:26,061 --> 01:26:27,062 a burden. 799 01:26:27,396 --> 01:26:30,691 This is me, in front of the mirror. 800 01:26:30,774 --> 01:26:32,150 I'm not afraid. 801 01:26:32,234 --> 01:26:34,945 I'm afraid of dying from it, but not of catching it. 802 01:26:35,445 --> 01:26:38,991 At first, I thought it was just a measly cold, 803 01:26:39,074 --> 01:26:41,577 but later I realized people were dying from it. 804 01:26:42,369 --> 01:26:46,957 At first, I was thrilled, I said to myself, 805 01:26:47,833 --> 01:26:50,502 "Yes, I'm free from that torture!" 806 01:26:51,378 --> 01:26:55,716 But now, I want to go back to school. I never thought I'd say such a thing. 807 01:26:56,383 --> 01:26:59,094 I miss going out to play, I miss my school, 808 01:26:59,845 --> 01:27:01,638 my friends from school. 809 01:27:02,264 --> 01:27:05,642 I can't even see my friends who live nearby. 810 01:27:07,186 --> 01:27:08,729 So this is my house. 811 01:27:10,022 --> 01:27:12,107 This is the kitchen, 812 01:27:12,191 --> 01:27:17,154 here we put some lettuce and kale to dry. 813 01:27:17,237 --> 01:27:20,073 Now we have to wash everything beforehand, 814 01:27:20,157 --> 01:27:21,909 because it might be infected. 815 01:27:22,701 --> 01:27:25,454 But I never thought it would last as long as it has. 816 01:27:26,038 --> 01:27:30,751 I thought we'd stay home for like two months, tops. 817 01:27:32,252 --> 01:27:34,046 I do my homework here. 818 01:27:34,671 --> 01:27:40,093 I use this TV set to follow the news about the pandemic in my country, 819 01:27:40,177 --> 01:27:42,763 whether cases are dropping or rising. 820 01:27:43,388 --> 01:27:47,643 Maybe they'll find the cure, or maybe things will stop getting worse. 821 01:27:47,726 --> 01:27:51,563 After all, we've had so many surprises in 2020. 822 01:27:53,565 --> 01:27:56,276 My brother watches TV here. 823 01:27:58,070 --> 01:28:00,572 I hardly ever play with my dolls anymore, 824 01:28:00,656 --> 01:28:03,951 nor with my brother, unless I don't have my phone. 825 01:28:04,952 --> 01:28:06,161 And that's all. 826 01:28:06,787 --> 01:28:11,917 This is a yoga mat. I've been using it to exercise. 827 01:28:12,668 --> 01:28:15,003 Right now, I think it's unfair when they say, 828 01:28:15,087 --> 01:28:18,173 "Get away from the computer, put down your cellphone," 829 01:28:18,257 --> 01:28:21,093 because if you do, you won't have a social life, 830 01:28:21,176 --> 01:28:24,721 you won't be able to see anyone, including relatives. 831 01:28:26,265 --> 01:28:30,060 These are my best buddies. 832 01:28:30,769 --> 01:28:35,732 They help me pass the time, they keep me company. 833 01:28:42,364 --> 01:28:44,449 These plants are as handsome as I am! 834 01:28:44,533 --> 01:28:48,328 What I miss the most is swimming in the lake. 835 01:28:48,704 --> 01:28:52,165 Going to the park or to the pool. 836 01:28:52,249 --> 01:28:55,043 Touching the plants, talking to them, 837 01:28:55,836 --> 01:28:58,422 touching the water, 838 01:28:58,505 --> 01:29:01,341 listening to crackling fire. 839 01:29:05,220 --> 01:29:08,682 I think that when I come out of this pandemic, 840 01:29:08,765 --> 01:29:13,812 spending time out of the house is something I'll value more, 841 01:29:15,063 --> 01:29:17,733 as well as being around other people, 842 01:29:18,525 --> 01:29:20,319 and everything else I had before. 843 01:29:26,241 --> 01:29:29,995 The first thing I'll do when the pandemic is over 844 01:29:30,078 --> 01:29:32,664 is hug everyone I know.