Andrei, MariaHeinrich, SonjaJacques, JasonOliver, IainPisani, SharonMiller, AlanBates, RichardCampana, StefanoFerdani, DanieleGraf, HolgerGuidi, GabrieleHegarty, ZackaryPescarin, SofiaRemondino, Fabio2025-09-052025-09-052025978-3-03868-277-6https://doi.org/10.2312/dh.20253353https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/dh20253353Psychological 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.Attribution 4.0 International License10.2312/dh.202533534 pages