The catch-all workshop that gives the widest view of environmental sustainability. Don’t get pigeon-holed on one subject: take part in a Planetary Boundaries Fresco to see the whole picture.
Planetary boundaries were initially proposed by the Stockholm Resilience Center. There are 9 processes that enable the habitability of the Earth for the human species. Planetary boundaries are the thresholds beyond which the process is significantly disrupted. Climate change is one, ozone depletion is another, etc.
This workshop explores the concept of planetary boundaries through a fun and thought-provoking workshop.
Teams of players work together to understand how Earth’s natural systems are being disrupted in ways beyond just climate change. Then they discuss what action can be taken to solve these issues without shifting the problems elsewhere.
This workshop is brilliant at building new skills and developing your understanding, such as:
🔎 A widened understanding of environmental issues, beyond just climate and carbon.
🛢️ A precise vision of the core challenges at the heart of planetary boundary transgression.
🌍 The mechanics of the impacts for each boundary’s transgression.
🧭 A simple pathway to reduce overshoot.
🔄 Critical thinking to identify co-benefits and trade-offs between any action and its impacts the 9 planetary boundaries.
🌦️ An understanding of the scientific journey to place the importance of today’s climate in the context of the Anthropocene, the stability of the Holocene and the changing climate of the Pleistocene.
⛏️ Contextualising planetary crisis alongside resource scarcity issues.
⭐️ A new appreciation for the beauty of our self-regulating, living world.
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This workshop was initially created by Arthur de Lassus, with inspiration from the Climate Fresk’s model of using cards to explore a system.
The workshop is spread by the association named 1er Degré and the active community of facilitators.
The community has now taken such an active role in the development of the workshop that authorship is shared.
The word “Fresk” is intellectual property belonging to Climate Fresk. It cannot be used by anyone else.
Workshops inspired by Climate Fresk have chosen a range of different words to call themselves in English. (It’s easy in French, everyone can use “Fresque“)
Many have chosen “Collage” but these creators chose to use Fresco, meaning a painting on wet lime plaster.
So there we have it: Fresque des Frontières Planétaires became Planetary Boundaries Fresco.
