The Climate Fresk
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.
La fresque du climat | |
Formation | December 2018 |
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Founder | Cédric Ringenbach |
Legal status | Nonprofit |
Purpose | To raise public awareness about climate change |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
Region served | worldwide |
Methods | serious game |
Website | climatefresk |
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]
Functioning of the workshop
The workshop lasts three hours and is divided in 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]
Audience
The workshops are opened to everyone but the game has been initially spread out in higher education and companies.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10]
References
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Laura Tenoudji (25 September 2019). "La Fresque du Climat : sensibiliser aux enjeux climatiques". www.youtube.com (in French). France Télévisions. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- "La fresque du climat : "Faites vos jeux !"". www.ladepeche.fr (in French). La Dépêche du Midi. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- Ringenbach, Cédric (1 October 2020). "Big 2020 : l'Ampli" (Interview). Interviewed by Pauline Clavière. Bpifrance. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- "SUEZ launches the Environmental Collage: 90,000 employees to participate". www.suez.com. Suez Environnement. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- "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.