Chamonix-sentinelles is an adventure game for the general public that tells the story of how the Alps will evolve between 2030 and 2100, with retreating glaciers, collapsing cliffs and changing mountain landscapes.

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Chamonix-sentinelles is an adventure game for the general public that tells the story of how the Alps will evolve between 2030 and 2100, with glaciers retreating, walls collapsing and mountain landscapes changing.

The game comes in a two-book collector's box.
Designed by Nicolas Nova , Sabrina Calvo and Etienne Mineur, Chamonix-Sentinelles was born out of a research-creation project conducted at HEAD between 2020 and 2024. The aim was to explore the potential of role-playing game mechanics to understand and anticipate the challenges of adapting to environmental crises in an Alpine context: global warming, overtourism, tensions linked to energy or the presence of infrastructures, etc. At the crossroads of anthropology and design, Chamonix-Sentinelles proposes a participative, forward-looking approach to projecting into the future in order to renew imaginations.

Nicolas Nova is an anthropologist and Professor at HEAD – Geneva, where he works on digital cultures and the environmental crisis. He is also co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a foresight agency involved in design fiction projects.
Sabrina Calvo is a poet of punk transidentity and the virtual. For over twenty years, she has been composing literary and visual works on the frontiers of imaginary materials.
Etienne Mineur is a French designer, editor and teacher whose work focuses on the relationship between graphics and interactivity. He has invented several patents in the field of tangible interaction.

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Let's play
Rendez-vous jeudi 11 avril, de 18h30 à 20h30
au Commun – Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10, 1205 Genève
Distribution by publisher, Studio Volumique à Paris