This project seeks to enhance the essentialized human centred sensation of temperature with direct visual and auditory representation through the disassembly and remake of a thermometer.

Discussions on climate change have been going on for decades. Statistics show that comparing two 30-year periods (1961-1990 and 1991-2020), the average temperature of the UK has increased by 0.8°C, rainfall by 7.3%, and sunshine by 5.6%.1 globally, the average sea level has risen 8–9 inches (21–24 cm) since 1880.2 Despite how many times these numbers dominate the news, our bodies as devices are reasonably insensitive to these minor changes. The urgent issue of global warming fails to catch people’s attention as the limitation of human sensation inevitably leads to ignorance.

This project seeks to enhance the essentialized human centred sensation of temperature with direct visual and auditory representation through the disassembly and remake of a thermometer. In the moving image piece, the background audio which consists of interviews and news reports of the 2022 UK heatwave makes ultimate contrast with the deliberate crafting process of the thermometer, unveiling the conflict between human sensing and the distribution of temperature. The change in height of the liquid level of the thermometer generates an exaggerated sensorial formation of the environment for its viewer.