The Biodiversity Collage
Discover, through a fun and collaborative workshop, the systemic aspects of biodiversity: what it is, what it enables and what degrades it.
Participate!
Discover, through a fun and collaborative workshop, the systemic aspects of biodiversity: what it is, what it enables and what degrades it.
Participate!
To understand the challenges and pressures around biodiversity, through a fun, collaborative, visual and accessible workshop, based on the IPBES report.
"The global rate of species extinction is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years and is accelerating."
| 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starters: recreate ecosystems | Organise the cards of the Collage | Turn your Collage into a piece of art | Debrief and actions |
| Divided into groups of 5-7, recreate an ecosystem and discover the impacts of human disturbance within it. | Find the links between the 39 cards, distributed in 5 lots, to understand what biodiversity is, what it enables and what degrades it. | Decorate and find a title for the Collage in order to present your work to the other groups. | Reflect on learnings and collectively develop an action plan to stop biodiversity loss. The debrief is adapted to the objectives of each workshop. |
To find a workshop in English 🇬🇧, search for "Biodiversity Collage".
If you’re interested in attending as a business representative, numbers are limited to one place per session for each organisation. To organise a private session at your organisation, contact one of the co-authors or a professional facilitator.
"The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder"
"We don't inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children."
"The diversity of nature maintains humanity's ability to choose alternatives in the face of an uncertain future."
Development, user testing & scientific review
After developing the tool, we tested it with more than 100 people and with experts from the National Museum of Natural History, the French Biodiversity Agency, IUCN, Humanity & Biodiversity, and business decision makers.
1200 students played!
As part of the biodiversity week at the Leonardo da Vinci University center where 50 trained facilitators supervised this giant workshop.
More scientific validation and online workshops
During the confinement, more than 150 people participated in online sessions from various companies. Employees can still do the Collage as part of their internal training programs.
Wider dissemination on the model of the Climate Fresk.
The idea is to entrust distribution to the general public in return for usage rights to the association.
Biodiversity Collage at the Nature Congress in Marseille and at COP15 in Montreal.
Launch of the workshop internationally (Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Canada ...).
The principle and content of this workshop are protected by
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND (Attribution, no commercial use, no modification). It is therefore possible to
freely use this tool for any free event, open to the public and during which the facilitators are
volunteers.
Designed with sobriety and commitment by TelesCoop (development) and Léopoldine Mennessier (design).
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