SCIENCE

FAULT//LINES ECHOES rests on a scientific foundation. In a world of complex data, complex analysis, and complex climate estimation, science slowly disconnects from the reality of the field. Large-scale predictions provide global vision, general trends, or a rough idea of what is happening on land. Crucial for general understanding... However, climate impacts are highly locally dependent. Geography, topography, or coastal configuration are all factors influencing local climatic conditions. The social, cultural, and economic context also drastically influences local climate vulnerabilities. Those specifities can be understood at the local scale only by the locals themselves. 

All around the world, some humans rely on their local ecosystems, unconsciously recording climate change consequences. They act as climate sensors; they are indicators. All together, they create a worldwide climate observatory that collect data over and over continuously since generations. Their data is knowledge. Lived experience becomes cartographies of change, tracing how climate shifts move through fields, ecosystems, bodies, and memory. By setting scientific projections beside ground-level realities, this project listens for resonance and for rupture between prediction and presence. Through a mosaic of voices, a fuller picture begins to emerge. 

This study wants to change our vision of climatic research. Instead of having a global perspective to understand what is happening locally (top-down), we want to use local perspectives to understand what is happening globally (bottom-up). 

NEXT STUDY - MALAYSIA 2026 - Coastal/Forest-dependent communities