He deals with unexpected territories, sometimes comical but always symptomatic of the consequences of climate change as well as our difficulties in understanding it.

Starting with a field study and research in dialogue with scientists, Frédéric Ferrer writes, directs and interprets real fake conferences. His talks border on the absurd and are not without humour, even though the knowledge presented is rigorously accurate and the situations described are worrying, to say the least... Between knowledge and art, the enthusiasm of this august lecturer challenges our conscience and awakens our lucidity.

The first two Cartographies were played in autumn 2020.

Lundi 26 octobre 2020
Cartographie 1: À la recherche des canards perdus
En septembre 2008, la Nasa lâche 90 canards jaunes en plastique dans un glacier du Groenland pour mesurer la vitesse du réchauffement climatique (véridique). Attendus quelques semaines plus tard dans la baie de Disco, les canards ne réapparaissent jamais. Où sont-ils passés?

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Mercredi 28 octobre 2020
Cartographie 2: Les Vikings et les satellites
Conférence sur l’importance de la glace dans la compréhension du monde (les climato-sceptiques, les réchauffistes et le Groenland). Mille ans après, la disparition des Vikings du Groenland continue de semer la pagaille dans la communauté scientifique. Les satellites peuvent-ils nous aider à comprendre ce qui se joue?

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Monday 8th of novembrer 2021
Cartography 3: Deterritorialisations of the vector
The tiger mosquito, motorway rest areas, dengue and chikungunya (contribution to a geography of epidemics). The vector is the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. It is striped and transmits viruses. Originating in Asia, it now threatens the health of several million human beings. How can we protect ourselves from Albo?

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Tuesday 9th of november 2021
Cartography 4: North Pole
A conference on one of the world’s sites of acceleration (ice floes, people, desires and the Lomonossov Ridge). The North Pole is the future. The destiny of the globe is being played out there. What will be revealed here will be the truth. Naked. Raw. Particularly desperate, inescapable. Perhaps also the harbinger of a new world, to be invested and invented.

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Monday 22nd of november 2021
Cartography 5: WOW!
A conference on the possibilities of living elsewhere (Fermi's paradox, Drake's equation and little green men). Regularly, new signs emerge indicating that the earth will one day no longer be habitable. Humanity will have to leave. The first signs of extraterrestrial life and the discovery of several exoplanets give us some hope.

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Tuesday 23rd of november 2021
Cartography 6: On code 
... and the really interesting questions it raises for the understanding of a whole lot of things in the world today (Fishing, predation, sex, amnesia and power in the West). For more than five centuries, cod has shaped landscapes and human life, fuelled a powerful triangular trade, founded liberalism and fed the minds and bellies of millions. But the cod is no longer here.

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