Wonder About Project: A Crowd-based Documentary About the Perception of Gender
Related Issues by Enrica Beccalli and Kassahun Elia Villa

“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our ‘salvation’ if we
thought it through.” (Luce Irigaray)

ABSTRACT
This documentary project, Wonder About, made by Enrica Beccalli and with Elia Villa, two Design and Technology student at Parsons, aims to explore a designer’s role in overcoming the gender gap. It explores how the design process can be a form of
social activism and how the design process can bring awareness of the gender gap problem to the user . The process of creating this documentary engages the participants and asks them to project themselves onto another in hopes of guiding them towards empathy and understanding.
Using a maieutics method, a method of teaching by question and answer used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students, the Wonder About project is a “vox populi” documentary and a 24/7 h non-linear documentary website about the perception of gender roles, gender identity and stereotypes in which the spectator can access different (and multifaceted) perspectives about the problem through the personal experience of the participants. The documentary- shot in New York- revolves around this single simple question: what would your life be like if you were another gender? We collected a limited number of answers with the additional aim of creating a non-linear documentary to involve more people, asking them to send us their answer in a video
format. As a whole, this project involves of a trailer, a traditional documentary and a non-linear documentary. The non-linear documentary consists of an ever-growing blog that collects videos from all over the world thanks to the support of people who decided to participate and share their opinion and experience.
what surprised us the most, is the reaction of the people interviewed, see the documentary and you will see it with your eyes.

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