Designed as a collaborative creative space, EcoLens Lab brings together women, youth, and underrepresented communities through film, multimedia storytelling, and co-creation processes. The program focuses on transforming climate conversations into human-centered narratives rooted in lived experience, memory, identity, and social connection.

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Through workshops, short films, visual storytelling, and experimental media practices, EcoLens Lab creates spaces where participants do not simply consume narratives about climate change, but actively shape and share their own stories.

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The lab also explores community-based and independent production models, drawing inspiration from collaborative fundraising ecosystems and participatory cultural practices. By working collectively with artists, filmmakers, researchers, and local communities, EcoLens Lab investigates how creative solidarity and shared storytelling can strengthen independent cultural production.

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Rather than approaching climate only as an environmental issue, EcoLens Lab examines how it reshapes emotional landscapes, migration experiences, gender dynamics, cities, and everyday social life.

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What We Do

• Participatory film and media workshops

• Community-based storytelling labs

• Short documentaries and multimedia projects

• Climate and culture dialogue spaces

• Collaborative production and creative facilitation

• Public screenings and interactive discussion

 

Core Focus Areas

• Climate storytelling

• Gender and climate justice

• Migration and memory

• Emotional dimensions of climate

• Community narratives

• Creative media production

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Key Outcomes

• Community-driven short films and multimedia stories

• Public screenings and collective learning experiences

• Capacity-building in storytelling and media production

• Collaborative creative networks across communities

• New cultural narratives around climate and social transformation

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Eco Lab operates as an evolving media ecosystem within Co-Climate, connecting creative production, participatory research, and collective storytelling practices across local and international contexts.​