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		<description>counterforce lab is a research studio that harnesses the power of art and design to engage with the reality of the global ecological crisis and its ties to environmental injustice. counterforce lab is a collection of artists, designers, scientists, and thinkers working in transdisciplinary collaboration with community partners to engage in artmaking grounded in storytelling and place-based artistic fieldwork practices.
our use of art and design as vehicles for storytelling is central to our belief that mitigating the ecological crisis requires a fundamental shift in how we understand ourselves in relation to each other and our place in the natural world. counterforce lab was founded by ucla professor rebeca méndez and is a part of ucla’s design media arts department.</description>
		
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		<description>why the name counterforce lab?
the counterforce lab stands on the shoulders of several giants. 

in 2012 the nevada museum of art asked rebeca méndez to design a book proposal for a monograph on the harrison studio, the collaborative team of artists helen mayer (1927-2018) and newton harrison, pioneers of the eco-art movement, who lead the force majeure center at uc santa cruz. in their fifty year career the harrisons have regarded the earth to be their only client. their works channel the agency of nature, and have influenced government policies worldwide.



“we define the force majeure as the pressure of global warming on all planetary systems, acting in collaboration with the industrial processes whose negative effects on the environment have more than co-equally accelerated over the past century. the center is founded on our belief that we as a species must adapt ourselves to a very different world, and that is the basis for the research that informs our artmaking. we define the type of problem that the center deals with as an ennobling problem, in the sense that the feedback from addressing issues at this scale confers benefits on the individuals involved, as well as on human culture and the planetary environment as a whole. in the present state, the center proceeds on our assertion that ecologically based, large-scale systems of adaptation to the extreme changes in the ever-warming environment are necessary for collective survival and so must be invented.”
–the time of force majeure, after 45 years counterforce is on the horizon
in “a manifesto for the twenty-first century” they write:


we at the center believe counterforces can be found
first understanding then collaborating with
nature’s response to catastrophe
which when energies are available
recreates itself
recreating order and complexity
lowering entropy in living systems large and small
…
yes, counterforces can be found easily enough
harnessing them and co-creating with them
for the common good is the urgency at hands
so we at the center conclude
that counterforces are available
that can in some measures mitigate a possible 6th mass extinction
but unless created over the next 50 years or much less
...
informed and invigorated by the harrisons méndez formed the counterforce lab in 2015.</description>
		
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Rebeca MéndezFounder and DirectorProfessor, UCLA Design Media Arts / Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES)Rebeca Méndez is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator examining reciprocal relationships and environmental justice in a multi-species world amid climate change, mass extinction, and a ravaging extractivist society. Her fieldwork has taken her to vulnerable environments and communities in the Arctic and threatened ecologies in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Méndez’s diverse works are driven by her interest in perception and embodied experience, and they develop across science and art, manifesting as immersive video and sound installations, public art, film, and performance. Bridging scientific and indigenous perspectives, Méndez has collaborated with major scientific institutions and with Acjachemen, Tongva, Ohlone, and Zapotec communities. Exhibitions include Into the Time Horizon at the Nevada Museum of Art (2026); three PST ART: Art &#38;amp; Science Collide exhibitions, including Storm Cloud: Picturing our Climate Crisis at the Huntington (2024–25); the 1st Gangwon International Triennale; and the 55th Venice Biennale. Permanent collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, and the El Paso Museum of Art. She is a California Community Foundation Fellow, a National Design Award recipient.&#38;nbsp;





   
      
      rebeca méndez is an artist, designer, and tenured professor at ucla, design media arts, where she is director of the counterforce lab, a research and fieldwork studio for art, design and environment. her research and practice investigates design and media art in public space, critical approaches to public identities and landscape, and artistic projects based on field investigation methods. méndez’s immersive video art installations are driven by her interest in perception and embodied experience. since 1996, she’s led rebeca méndez studio in los angeles and has received significant recognition including her recent inclusion into the permanent collection of the los angeles county museum of art, the 2017 medal of aiga, induction into the one club hall of fame, new york, and the 2012 national design award in communication design. her diverse works have been exhibited widely in significant institutions including solo exhibitions at the san francisco museum of modern art, hammer museum, nevada art museum, museum of contemporary art, oaxaca, mexico, and group exhibitions at the 55th venice biennial, los angeles county museum of art, el paso museum of art, and the cooper-hewitt national design museum. méndez is known for her career-long commitment to ‘design and art as a social force,’ and was awarded the ‘2016 vision over violence humanitarian award,’ by peace over violence, los angeles. méndez was guest curator at the cooper-hewitt national design museum in ‘rebeca méndez selects’ 2018–19, reviewed in the new yorker magazine. she was co-chair for the 2018 national design awards, juror for the pritzker emerging environmental genius award, 2017 and 2018, was keynote speaker at the aiga conference 2019 / design educators, and member of the steering committee and co-curator of the 2019 aspen ideas festival. her interests and initiatives are a bridge between art, design and science, and demonstrate a commitment to the environment and a sustainable future.
      
   
   




      


	&#60;img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e990e5a58c760b31c051f4d5045c555ca02c00180dca21573bdcb34664f610b/ellie.jpeg" data-mid="79582192" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/1e990e5a58c760b31c051f4d5045c555ca02c00180dca21573bdcb34664f610b/ellie.jpeg" /&#62;Dr. Eleanor “Ellie” DiamantAssociate Director

Ellie Diamant, Assistant Professor of Biology. Dr. Ellie Diamant is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in how organisms and populations respond to rapid human-caused environmental change, and how human and non-human organisms and systems relate to and affect each other. Diamant loves working with students, in the classroom or through mentorship, and opening up avenues where they can discover their passions (or at least become scientifically literate!).
&#60;img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da1472efae7d1398480fcb655d103b8ebd25cb14805fed21c93a98364aef5012/yogan.JPG" data-mid="79582289" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/da1472efae7d1398480fcb655d103b8ebd25cb14805fed21c93a98364aef5012/yogan.JPG" /&#62;Dr. Yogan MüllerSenior Researcher
Yogan Müller is a French photographer, first-generation graduate, researcher, and educator whose work engages with ecological overshoot and its impact on landscapes, communities, and resources. Fieldwork, critical approaches to landscape, and design are central to his process, drawing on photography, photogrammetry, drones, and the book form. Following the loss of his father in 2022, belonging, identity, and fractured roots have come to the fore in his practice.

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; He earned one of the first practice-based PhDs in Photography from ENSAV La Cambre and Université libre de Bruxelles in 2018. In 2019 he moved to Los Angeles and joined UCLA Design Media Arts' Counterforce Lab, teaching photography, photogrammetry, generative AI, and drones there from 2020 to 2024, as well as at the Penumbra Foundation in New York and the University of Bordeaux.

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; His work is held in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and private collections.
     


   
      
      
         erin cooney is visual artist, educator, and activist. born and raised in houston, texas, she has lived in los angeles since 2000. her video, installation, and performance work centers around the embodied nature of point of view and strives towards a reconfiguration in the human relationship to the natural world. she received a ba in philosophy from the university of notre dame and studied graphic design at art center college of design. she is currently pursuing her mfa at ucla.
      
   
   



   
      



      
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            karina lopez is a mexican artist and researcher. while perpetually exploring human perception and representations through code and image, her focus revolves around concepts pertaining to virtual and physical connectivity, cyberfeminism, ethics of technology, and decolonization of archives and space. she holds a b.a. in design and media arts from ucla.
         
      
    



  
	
UCLA Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Elizabeth Deloughrey 

Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a Professor at UCLA in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, working in Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific Island studies with a focus on literature, arts, and ecology. Her research contributes to feminist and postcolonial ecocriticism, critical ocean studies, island studies, demilitarization, and environmental humanities.

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; She teaches postcolonial and Indigenous literature courses in English, Global Studies, and the Honors Program, addressing climate change, the Anthropocene, food politics, and empire, alongside courses on the oceanic imaginary in literature, film, and art.

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Her research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation (Fellow), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the UCLA Global Studies Program, the Fulbright Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities.
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Erin Cooney is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, with a background in philosophy, French studies, graphic design, and media arts. She teaches experimental humanities courses on ecological crisis, biodiversity collapse, environmental injustice, food studies, colonial history, media studies, and ecological arts and design. Before joining ELTS, she taught food justice at Rice University and developed media studies and ecological arts courses as a lecturer at UCLA Design Media Arts, then served as Associate Director of UCLA's Counterforce Lab from 2020 to 2022.


Cooney is also a multimedia artist working in video installation, performance, and community practice. Her current project, Aire Libre, a dance-based video installation on air pollution in LA County and its effects on communities of color, is produced with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Company, and poet Rocío Carlos, for projection onto industrial sites across the community.
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Dr. Pamela Yeh&#38;nbsp;Pamela is an evolutionary biologist and studies how human activities affect the evolution of species, focusing on the evolution of birds in urban environments and the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria in urban and agricultural areas. She is also interested in the role biology plays in public health, and how biological data and insights can both inform public health research as well as public health policy. She received her BA in Biology from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, her PhD in Evolutionary Biology from University of California at San Diego, and conducted post-doctoral work in the Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University and the Systems Biology Department at Harvard Medical School. She has been at UCLA since 2013. Pamela is also an External Faculty at Santa Fe Institute.
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Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig is Professor of Green Technologies and Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Munich (tum). He researches how trees may be used in architectural construction. Prof. Ludwig is the original developer of “baubotanik,” the practice of creating architecture using living materials, and the founder of OLA, the Office for Living Architecture. “In baubotanik, we essentially use photosynthesis and the growth processes that build on it. and the exciting thing is that we incorporate this directly into the architecture. The calculation basis for such buildings is highly complex because the geometry has to react to organic development processes. That’s why we work in an interdisciplinary manner, from engineering to ecology. Our goal is to establish botany as part of building culture, as building culture in open spaces, but also very strongly in the built environment.” 

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Dr. Ian Macgregor-Fors&#38;nbsp;Ian MacGregor-Fors is Professor of Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystems at the University of Helsinki. A passion for birds since adolescence led him to study Biology at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. After a PhD with honors from UNAM, his research has focused on how wildlife communities respond to human disturbances, mainly in towns and cities, and on the ecology and distribution of invasive bird species. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific publications, as well as several books, book chapters, and popular science pieces.

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Since 2012, he has served on the Advisory Board of the International Network Urban Biodiversity &#38;amp; Design (URBIO), promoting the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in urban areas. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Animal Biodiversity and Conservation and Associate Editor for Ecology, Urban Ecosystems, and Journal of Urban Ecology. He holds that evidence-based knowledge of urban systems' physical, ecological, and social dimensions can help build livable cities, given willing stakeholders.


Students and Volunteers: Karina López, (UCLA, DMA, 2019)
Marlene ”Mars” Walters, Ph.D. (UCLA, EEB, 2026)
Bora Rex, (UCLA, TFT, 2006)&#38;nbsp;
UCLA, Current Undergraduate Students:&#38;nbsp;
Yuri Espinosa, Iris Fu, Ella Reaugh, Valeria López
Volunteers:
Adam Eeuwens, Angelica Gomez, and Madelin Laun

Partner Organizations Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA); Homegrown Garden; Lanai Road Elementary (Robin Solomon and Jennifer Wexler); Pando Populus (Eugene Shirley); Sisters of Social Service (Maribeth Larken); The PLACE Collaboratory, a project of Bringing Theory to Practice; UCLA Sustainability Office (Nurit Katz); UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (Cassie Rauser, Rebecca Shipe, Jennifer Craier, and Sophie Katz)






Development: 
Funding made possible by the generous support of the UCLA Center for Community Engagement, Social Impact Collaboratives; UCLA Transdisciplinary Research Acceleration Grants (TRAG); The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF); UCLA Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge; The PLACE Collaboratory, a project of Bringing Theory to Practice (backed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation); Pando Populus; Sisters of Social Service; UCLA Design &#124; Media Arts Department; and Rebeca Méndez Studio.

Counterforce Lab Alumni:
Former Leadership:
Dr. Lili Flores Aguilar (DMA)

Alyssa Davis (Information Studies)
Maria Eugenia (Maru) Garcia (DMA)
Graduate Students:
DMA: Emma Akmakdjian, Alvaro Azcárraga, Maru García, Iman Person, Laila Reshad, and Isaac Ruder. 
AUD: Camille Walkinshaw, Andrew Gonzalez, and Sana JahaniEEB: Christian Henry 


Undergraduate Students:
José Alberola, Chechi Amah, Paige Brunson, Jenna Cameron, Lex Fleck, Jennifer Fletes-Galindo, Nikolai García, Ariella Gaughan, Qin He, Karen Ho, Catherine Hu, Eun Seo Kang, Delaney Kough, Amanda Layfield, Chuyu Liu, Karina López, Vivian Luk, Adrian Martínez-Tobón, Juliette Montalba, Samuel Mutz, Philip Otto, Jessica Adriana Rivera, Alik Shehadeh, Benjamin Sigoloff, Hera Song, Yongjia Tang, Charlene Tonai Din, Kiera Wang, Kameron Wiley, Camille Wong, Emerald Wong, Grace Xu, Michael Yu, Ivy Zhang, Madeline Zhang

UCLA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) / Design Media Arts (DMA)—Landscaping Team 
Lara Bacasen, Taber Ball, Yasamin Banaei, Raina Bhargava, Analaura Caballero Hernández, Colm Connolly, Jordan Dixon, Stella Fang, Miaki Fukuhara, Bryan González, Sierra Hagen, Jasmin Hernández, Violet Ko, Jason Kwon, Lucia Liu, Franke Mele, Arshia Mohseni, Jaya Pareja, Mahshad Rafiee, Emmy Shaw, Ethan Trinh, Wesley Wu, Alexis Zukovski
Rebeca Méndez Studio 
Jason Lee and Wonho Lee

        






   
      
         

      




   
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         sana jahani is a los angeles-based designer working towards her m.arch degree at ucla. she received her ba in architecture with a minor in city &#38;amp; regional planning from uc berkeley in 2015. prior to starting at ucla, she worked as a designer at standard llp for three years. more recently, she worked on the superposition exhibition at ucla perloff gallery, which was featured in log 48. her work has been showcased in ucla a.ud’s currents exhibition four times and she has received a number of awards at ucla including the elaine krown klein fine arts scholarship and the carlin glucksman fellowship. 
      
   
   



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         undergraduate student in design media artswonho lee is a designer and artist from seoul, korea and lives in los angeles for his ba degree in design/media arts at ucla. his works focus on the representation of poetic sentiments within various digital forms including typography and photography. he worked as a graphic design intern at rebeca méndez studio, and he is currently working as the 2019 - 2020 designer-in-residence at the ucla school of the arts and architecture. his recent work was selected as a final winner of the greyhound bus design competition, and he has received various awards including elaine krown klein fine arts scholarship award and tina and martin sarafa scholarship award.
      
   
   



   
	

   
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         yogan muller is a landscape scholar and photographer whose work is attuned to the epistemological repercussions of the anthropocene. after graduating from a ba math in 2007 at the university of bordeaux, france, he undertook and graduated from a practice-led phd in landscape photography and epistemology (ensav la cambre, université libre de bruxelles, belgium) in 2018. this 2019-2020 academic year, he moved to los angeles where he now works and lives. under the tutelage of ucla professor and designer rebeca méndez (ph.d. h.c.), he partook in the foundational projects of the counterforce lab, a research initiative led by professor méndez and entirely devoted to the ecological crisis and the response of artists, designers and scholars. he currently is a visiting lecturer at ucla (department of design media arts). his papers were published in les carnets du paysage (ensp versailles/marseille, france) and projets de paysage. as a landscape photographer, he worked in iceland between 2012 and 2017 and documented the transformation of the landscape of the reykjanes peninsula, southwest of the capital reykjavík. he is a finalist of la bourse du talent (no. 80) award in 2019. he was a french student photographer of the year in 2007 (3rd prize) and was selected for three masterclass workshops led by magnum photos in 2008 (brighton, uk), 2009 (gröningen, the netherlands) and 2011 (munich, germany). he interned magnum photos in london in 2009.
      
   


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