The Climate Fresk

The Climate Fresk
La fresque du climat
FormationDecember 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12)
FounderCédric Ringenbach
Legal statusNonprofit
PurposeTo raise public awareness about climate change
HeadquartersParis, France
Region served
worldwide
Methodsserious game
Websiteclimatefresk.org

The Climate Fresk is a French nonprofit organization founded in December 2018 whose aim is to raise public awareness about climate change. It proposes a collaborative serious game based on 42 cards where the participants draw a fresco, hence "fresk", which summarizes the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As of 2023, over a million people have participated.

Origins and aims

The Climate Fresk is created in 2015 by Cédric Ringenbach, former director of The Shift Project from 2010 to 2016, to raise public awareness about climate change.[1][2] In December 2018, he creates an organization to spread the game and train facilitators.[3][better source needed]

Functioning of the workshop

The workshop lasts three hours and is divided into three distinct phases.[4] The first phase consists in discovering and linking the cards by cause-consequence relationships to build the Fresk [5] as explained in the IPCC reports.[1][2][6] The second phase is creative: the participants decorate the Fresk and choose a title.[5] The last phase is a debrief enabling a discussion about players' feelings, positions, questions and both individual and collective solutions.[1][7][8]

Audience

The workshops are opened to everyone but the game has been initially spread out in higher education and companies.[9] Suez Environnement is the first company to announce a partnership with the Climate Fresk in June 2020 offering a workshop to every of its 90,000 employees worldwide.[10] This announcement is shortly followed by the one of EDF which engages in a partnership with the organization to perform the workshop for its 165,000 employees.[11][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Raux, Aude (May–June 2020). "La Fresque du Climat : jouer pour comprendre". Kaizen magazine (in French). Vol. 50. pp. 62–66. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b Samuel Marro (24 September 2019). "La Fresque du climat, un jeu collectif pour comprendre le changement climatique". www.wedemain.fr (in French). We demain. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  3. ^ Anne-Dominique Correa (24 May 2019). "La Fresque du Climat : des cartes pour comprendre le dérèglement climatique". www.socialter.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  4. ^ Rémi-Kenzo Pagès (23 September 2020). "Une fresque du climat pour saisir l'urgence climatique". www.lemediatv.fr (in French). Le Média. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b Célia Fontaine (20 November 2020). "La Fresque du Climat : comprendre le changement climatique en jouant". www.celia-fontaine.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  6. ^ Laura Tenoudji (25 September 2019). "La Fresque du Climat : sensibiliser aux enjeux climatiques". www.youtube.com (in French). France Télévisions. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  7. ^ "La fresque du climat : "Faites vos jeux !"". www.ladepeche.fr (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  8. ^ a b Audrey Garric (25 May 2023). "Le succès de la Fresque du climat, cet atelier de sensibilisation aux enjeux climatiques suivi par 1,1 million de personnes". www.lemonde.fr (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  9. ^ Ringenbach, Cédric (1 October 2020). "Big 2020 : l'Ampli" (Interview). Interviewed by Pauline Clavière. Bpifrance. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  10. ^ "SUEZ launches the Environmental Collage: 90,000 employees to participate". www.suez.com. Suez Environnement. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  11. ^ "La Fresque du Climat déployée pour les 165 000 salariés d'EDF" (PDF). Lumières (in French). Vol. 175. June 2020. p. 8. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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