A futuristic vision for Latin America, rooted in ancient design | Catalina Lotero

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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What would Latin America look like if colonization hadn't interrupted its ancient civilizations? Imagining a future where ancestral knowledge intertwines with modern aesthetics, designer Catalina Lotero shows how "pre-Columbian futurism" draws inspiration from Indigenous symbolism and technology — empowering Latin America to reclaim lost cultural narratives.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	Catalina Loetero wants Latin American to TED Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.6	Catalina Lotero wants Latin American artists and designers
0:16.7	to chart their aesthetic future.
0:19.0	She saw it in other parts of the world,
0:20.9	but why not her own?
0:22.4	So in her 2023 talk from Ted at BCG, she shares a vision
0:26.3	for bringing inspiration from the past to create locally designed aesthetics in the present and project it forward to after the break.
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1:11.7	My name is Catalina Loeiro, and I suffer from aesthetic anxiety.
1:17.0	That means that, well, you guys probably fear planes or some real life-threatening thing,
1:25.0	like snakes.
1:27.0	I get very anxious at the idea of a poster
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