The Morning Minute #17: Cyril Bruyelle, founder of 20 "Questions to the World".
For the Morning Minute #17, we met Cyril Bruyelle, a member at Morning Coworking Clichy - Batignolles. Cyril is the founder of 20 Questions to the World, an association that sets out to better understand the world through a method as simple as it is effective.
"20 Questions to the World" in one sentence?
Cyril: "20 Questions to the World is the same 20 very open questions about education, the future or religion, put to hundreds of people all over the Earth, to help the world understand itself better."
How did you come up with the idea?
C: "The thing is, I'm forever curious, always trying to understand the world I live in but, at the same time, I felt frustrated by this incomplete understanding of the world. So I told myself that the only way to understand it better was to go and talk to people. So I drew up a number of subjects: education, the future, religion, and so on, from which I created a questionnaire of twenty very open questions. I then put these questions to all sorts of very different people. A Mongolian nomad as much as a New York businessman. In this way I travelled through close to twenty countries and interviewed around five hundred people in a year."
What are your inspirations?
C: "JR really is one of my great inspirations. In fact I got in touch with him to ask his teams for a hand with an upcoming project that involves fitting out a lorry (read on below). Otherwise, I greatly admire the work of Sebastião Salgado. This Brazilian photographer has likewise put his art at the service of powerful messages. Whether on immigration or ecology. I find that fascinating. Sylvain Tesson too, who is a total madman. He puts adventure at the service of an intellectual, philosophical and humanist quest. I think that's rather wonderful."
How do you see "20 Questions to the World" in the future?
C: "We're developing all sorts of new projects, in particular a kind of video photo booth based on the last question in the questionnaire: "And you, what question would you like to put to the whole world?" In practical terms, the setup will invite anyone to step into the booth and click on a touchscreen showing a mosaic of faces. The face you 'click' will then put its question to you. Your answer is then recorded and sent to that person. Finally, you'll be invited to put your own question to the whole world. It's an endless exchange of questions and answers. We're also going to do it in the form of a lorry which, unlike the booth, lets you go out and meet people."
Would you have an interview anecdote to share?
C: "I had the chance to interview Jaime Paz, former Bolivian president. As an aside, this gentleman was in a plane crash while he was in the running for the presidency. The attack was never proven, but the fact remains that Jaime Paz was the sole survivor of the crash. In the wake of it, he got himself elected president. For many, it was a case of divine intervention. In his little private chapel, there's a piece of the wing of the plane that crashed!"While we wait to be able to step into Cyril's booths and converse with the whole world, we'll leave you to find out more directly on the website of 20 Questions to the World!
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