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A series of videos to show Nature experiences during a big journey

For 1 year and a half, we will travel the roads of Eurasia in a van to share experiences of Nature with the populations encountered through 2 types of activities:

to experiment together tools that allow to observe what is imperceptible to the naked eye (microscope, macro photo, astrophoto ...) and to transform it into an image,
to practice sports that allow you to be in direct contact with the elements (ski touring, climbing, slackline, kayaking, trekking ...).

This chosen video format will be displayed on the Internet and at specialized festivals and will be able to capture the interest of a wide audience, with the adventure of travel and the meeting of the other as well as the activities of nature or the images of sports performance: a clever mix that promises big thrills episodes!

Using emotion to help rethink our relationship with Nature : the idea behind the Wonderscope project

You've seen it like us: scientists around the world are increasingly alerting us to the need to transform our lifestyles to cope with the ongoing environmental crisis. You also surely find that individual and collective behaviors are struggling to really change.
How to explain this lack of reaction?
By focusing on psychological mechanisms, we have discovered that emotions play a much bigger role than the analysis of rational elements, such as numbers and statistics, in the decision-making of the individual.

Both of us, with our purely scientific training, are now facing a new field, almost unknown to us, and that could actually be our most effective lever for action to change attitudes!

So it's decided, we leave our comfort zone and we give ourselves the mission to try to touch environmental consciousness by transmitting positive emotions around Nature.

With Wonderscope, we will create images of Nature that call for wonder, to inspire the desire to get closer to the environment, and subsequently to want to preserve it.

Planning and itinerary

The adventure will begin at the beginning of April 2019 and will last until September 2020.
The structuring stages of the schedule are :

to reach Nepal in early October 2019 before the closure of the road passes
to arrive in Japan in February 2020 to be in the middle of winter
take the Trans-Siberian road in early April 2020 to arrive at Lake Baikal when it is still frozen.

Following this route, we will take mythical roads such as the Pamir Highway, the Karakoram Highway, the Trans-Siberian Highway or cross a section of the Gobi Desert.
This itinerary will allow us to discover various ecosystems and take you to meet cultures far from what we know.

History of the Association: the desire to go further

Throughout our studies, with preparatory classes in biology, we realized the huge issues that weigh on the living world and the challenges that our generation has to face to preserve a balance of life for everyone.

Logically, we then have both worked in the Environment: Nathalie as a researcher specializing in lake pollution in a laboratory and Alban as a sustainable building engineer in a design office.
Seeing that our society was struggling to transform in depth, we wanted to go further, even if it meant leaving our well-traced course.

This is how we created the Wonderscope association, and this first project that accompanies it.
The association aims to bring together nature enthusiasts and allow them to share playful moments with different audiences around this subject to awaken sensitivities to the environment.

We have many ideas to continue the actions of the association and the help that you bring to us thanks to this platform is totally invested in the association.

Wonderscope - Seeing Nature differently