“After experiencing a significant influx of climatic and political refugees, the Vercors is more than ever a welcoming land for all. But where to house all these new residents? The decision-making residents of Vercors must come together to find a solution. HAS”
Dressed in a costume corresponding to their role, Pauline, Andréa, Mélissa and Clément played one of the sketches in this play entitled “The elite of the summits”. Alma, Fleur and Émilien presented their comic strip “Revolution, decline, expedition†during a press conference. Another group made a film “The Vercors Strikes Back†while a fourth told the story of “Chronicles of the Vercors, the rise and the fracture†.
“Be a decision-making tool”
These fourteen students, in a Master 2 in Economic Strategy for Sport and Tourism in Grenoble, worked on a prospective exercise imagining the mountain of 2050. “These scenarios came from a meeting with citizens, socio-professionals and elected officials from the Vercors.
There is a double objective: to bring new stories to the surface and to be a decision-making tool,” explains Camille Rey-Gorrez, teacher for the course “territorial development and territorial transition” and director of the Mountain Riders association.
These students spent a day, at the beginning of January, in Lans-en-Vercors to discuss with elected officials, those responsible for the ski area and the tourist office, citizen associations but also former elected officials: “We really tried to have very different on the history and their vision on tourism. We then collected a lot of materials to produce scenarios based on the methodology of design fiction. »
They came to present them at the headquarters of Dauphiné Libéré, in Veurey-Voroize, in the presence of Georges Bosi, deputy editor-in-chief in charge, in particular, of the mountain vertical.
The discussions focused on issues such as conflicts of use, governance, climate, overcrowding and even the question of sanctuarization. “The mountains are changing, we have to adapt and we need to be able to project ourselves with rather ambitious scenarios, both utopian and dystopian. But, each time, we base ourselves on realistic elements,” explained one of the students.
Camille Rey-Gorrez hopes that these “new stories” will “resonate” on the Vercors plateau (and elsewhere) and inspire elected officials.
