UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)

A woman with short blonde hair poses inside a wire-mesh bird enclosure, holding a green parrot with a red forehead on her hand while another green parrot perches on a platform behind her.
Name
UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
Description
UCLA faculty and students from across disciplines come together here to study how storytelling, communications, and media can support sustainability and environmental justice. The lab starts from the premise that environmental challenges are cultural and political as well as scientific. It supports research, teaching, and public engagement around the narratives communities use to understand environmental crisis and possibility.
Type
en Lab
Founded
2017
Founder
Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen, Michelle Niemann
Climate & Ecology Themes
Environmental Justice
Methods & Approaches
Storytelling / Narrative Practice
Discipline / Field
Humanities
Interdisciplinary
Audience / Engagement
Academic / Research
Public / General Audience
Location
Los Angeles, California
Website
http://environmental.humanities.ucla.edu/
Rights
Rights held by institution
Current Status
Active
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Los Angeles
Media
A woman with short blonde hair poses inside a wire-mesh bird enclosure, holding a green parrot with a red forehead on her hand while another green parrot perches on a platform behind her.Ursula Heiss