Bridging Psychological Distance from Climate Change through Experiential Learning within Heritage Organisations
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Date
2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Psychological distance from climate change---the perception that its impacts occur far away, in the future, to other people, or with uncertain likelihood---has been established as a major barrier to public understanding and action. Building on seven workshops hosted on an Antarctic expedition and two museum exhibitions located in Scotland, we present and evaluate a Virtual Reality (VR) approach that embeds local and global climate scenarios in museum exhibitions to collapse the four dimensions of psychological distance: temporal, spatial, social (identity) and uncertainty. Results demonstrate that VR can increase emotional engagement and perceived personal relevance with climate change. The paper proposes a set of guidelines for extending the scope of this work.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253353,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Bridging Psychological Distance from Climate Change through Experiential Learning within Heritage Organisations}},
author = {Andrei, Maria and Heinrich, Sonja and Jacques, Jason and Oliver, Iain and Pisani, Sharon and Miller, Alan and Bates, Richard},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253353}
}