Platform The world I know brings podcast and documentary series that reveal children’s views on the future, diversity and other topics.
Society is built through different points of view, which involve factors such as monetary status, ethnicity, culture, level of education, place of residence, and countless factors that differentiate one from the other. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people faced social isolation, the use of masks and other notable protocols during this challenging time. Many of the debates about the psychological impacts this would have focused on children, however, there were no concerns about how their point of view would be represented.
With that in mind, theBebok, an independent and committed communications agency, fulfilled its own desire to develop a project of greater social relevance. With the end of the pandemic, the agency brought together people, brands, companies around communication that would bring more important discussions.
This is how OMQS or The World I Know was born, a multimedia platform sponsored by the Espaço Espaço school.ofwhich presents, through podcasts and a documentary series, children’s perspectives on themselves, childhood, the future and other topics that increase children’s participation in everyday dialogue
Listening is one of the greatest challenges at the beginning of this century and The World I Know proposes to face it from this perspective towards childhood, declares the project’s creator and Bebok partner Fabio Guedes.
To capture different realities, the project included ethnographic research conducted by anthropologist Adriana Friedmann. Through conversations with 170 children, aged 6 to 12, from five regions of São Paulo, covering different cultural, social and economic profiles of the city.
Documentary Series
In the documentary series, made up of nine episodes that are now available onYouTube, 23 children, including some of those interviewed, share their distinct experiences. To address this, the series mixes elements of fantasy and reality, building a fictional narrative about the character Solo, an alien intelligence who travels 50 light years to get to know Earth better.
Embodied in a 1970s television, intelligence communicates with children with questions about this world. During the dynamics involving games and interviews, young people provide real and personal statements about the environment, respect, diversity, mental health, affection, technology and other topics that are explored throughout the episodes.
The ethical principle of the relationship with the child is the basis of everything in order to obtain these responses spontaneously, showing that we want to learn from them, added the project’s creator.
The series was produced bySocial Docsa production company focused on projects and actionsESGand was written by Gisele Mirabai, directed by Victor Ribeiro, executive produced by Vera Haddad and Marcelo Douek and directed by Henry Grazinoli,
“Our big challenge was to create a unique, current language that maintained, in audiovisual, the lightness typical of children when dealing with such serious and often heavy subjects. I think we did it”, says Grazinoli.
Podcast
Now the podcast follows another aspect. In this form of debate, mediated by journalist and OMQS content director Giuliana Bergamo, the guests, who are adults, begin conversations after listening to sections of the testimonies of the children who were present in the documentary. In this way, the project creates an ecosystem of content that amplifies the debate about the topics covered by younger people.
“The children who participated in the project talk not only about themselves, but about us, adults. In the podcast, we open this dialogue to think about our present and the future of the planet and humanity”, says Giuliana.
With an average duration of 35 minutes per episode, they offer more perspectives on the same topics covered by children, such as the future, affection and play, mental health, diversity, technology, virtual experiences, the role of education, and violence.
Among the invited people are the psychoanalysts Ilana Katz and Julieta Jerusalinsky, the educators Reinaldo Nascimento, Marcos Mouro and Lucilene Silva, the musician Renata Mattar, the writers Trudru Dorrico and Janana Tokitaka, the writer and illustrator Caco Galhardo, the culture secretary of Jundia Marcelo Peroni, architect Ursula Troncoso, diversity and anti-racism consultant Ellen Souza, digital influencer Pepita and the director of the NGO Childhood Las Perreto. They are all responsible for building a solid and professional communication environment.
We want children to see themselves as agents of the contemporary world who are present in social discussions, and for adults to listen to these children and learn to deal with this totally different generation. They are digital natives, they are facing wars, climate change and they are worried about how they will fit into this world that seems to be coming to an end. Most likely they will grow up with a very latent activism, looking for the best way to regenerate this world, concludes Fabio Guedes.
*Supervised by Jssica Bitencourt
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