July 17 Climate Fresk
- Published on Thursday June 27th, 2024
Climate Fresk: Public Climate Change Education Gameplay
A Climate Fresk is an orientation of sorts to the global realities of climate change through a structured event which has been happening all over the world since 2018. Climate Fresk gets its name from the fresco, or picture, created while placing and literally drawing connections between cards labeled with cause and effects across fifty relevant topics. Created by a French nonprofit which grew from an educator’s passion project to help make vital scientific data understood, this event is a gamification of the recurring United Nation’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Report contents to make that often dry data accessible to the broadest possible audience. The shared act of defining the connections establishes an awareness of the complications, and then the event moves to facilitated exploration about what to do with this new knowledge. The point of a Climate Fresk is to reinforce the importance of participation and reconsidering our assumptions. No previous knowledge is required; only a willingness to learn through participation.
This free Climate Fresk will take place on Sunday, July 21st from 1:30 to 4:30 pm at the University City Public Library for a limited sized public audience. Minimum age for this event is 15.
Click this link to sign up: July 21st - Climate Fresk Workshop - UCCPL
