As part of the Climate Year, Karine Leblanc and Thierry Moutin (MIO-CYBELE) (with the help of the ELABORE association) offered M1 Marine Sciences and M2 OPB students a Climate Fresco workshop. The workshop took place on Tuesday 5 October at the MIO and was attended by 80 students. This teaching tool, based on the work of the IPCC, is an extremely powerful tool for building knowledge of how the climate machine works and understanding the cause-and-effect links between the origins of greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the climate and human activities.
It's a workshop based on collective intelligence and discussion, which helps to establish concepts in a much more lasting way than a lecture. It consists of 3 parts: the Fresco itself, based on a card game, a creative part + debrief, and a solutions part. You learn a lot by doing it, even if you're an environmental scientist!
Karine Leblanc and Thierry Moutin have been trained under the AMU training plan, and we are offering this workshop, ideally in groups of 7-8 people, on the MIO premises. Other colleagues from the laboratory are also planning to be trained as facilitators so that they can spread this knowledge to as many people as possible.
Nearly 200,000 people have taken part in a Fresque workshop in France since 2018, and the association (Fresqueduclimat.org) is aiming to have 1,000,000 people aware of the issue by the end of 2022. This initiative is expanding rapidly at AMU in all disciplines, but the Fresques also work in companies, schools, with elected representatives in towns and local authorities and in private settings. The "Fresque du climat" association will be massively involved at COP26 in the internationalisation of this method, which has already been translated into more than 20 languages.
This workshop is open to everyone.
Contact us to register your interest by simply replying to this e-mail and we will send you a doodle to find a 3-hour slot.
Karine and Thierry