As an introduction, to date, remote sensing has provided humanity with a powerful tool for making sense of our world, but in its communicative reach, the scientific practice reveals its limitations. We think and know about climate change through statistics, abstract diagrams and coloured maps, melting ice, smoke stacks and storm surges. As a result, our body’s perception (already critically detecting and responding to everyday changes in our physical, social and cultural lives) has been increasingly alienated from climate sense-making. This is a miserable and unacceptable predicament.

Complementary to a world observed in a detached remote way, an intimately sensed world is felt, untidy, warm, interwoven and involved. In different locales around the world, situated practices like intimate sensing can focus attention to the body - back to its alertness in feeling climatic changes through relationships and through that which primordially stirs within.