Anna Harris is a Professor of Anthropology and Medicine at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is the lead of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project The Upcycled Clinic and co-lead on the projects Sense Based Learning and SenseSquared. She has written several books including A Sensory Education, and is currently working on a new book project called Analogue Lessons. This article was co-written as part of projects which received funding from the ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreements No. 678390 and No. 101125003)