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Projects 

The lab’s deeply transcultural and transdisciplinary approaches are reflected in the global reach of its projects, initiatives and collaborations. Completed, current and forthcoming projects span the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe.

Forthcoming Book 
Fall 2026!

Multispecies Thick-Map Prototype #1:   
The Agro Pontino
August 2024 - October 2025
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​This lab-incubated book explores the intellectual and methodological foundations of the lab. It urgently calls for a paradigm-shift away from the delusion of human exceptionalism, addressing interconnected global crises of climate change, species extinction and increased cultural conflict.

Urban Plan Illustration

Thiis is the very first prototype of a Multispecies Thick-Map! Drawing from the lab-developed method of naturalcultural discourse analysis, this is a new interdisciplinary and non-anthropocentric method of spatialization and visualization. The map takes into account both the diachronic nature of a specific place (across multiple time periods, from mythic times to geological epochs to contemporary, decade-long time scales) and its synchronic characteristics, i.e. all these features existing together in the present, at the same time, via a series of overlapping physical and imaginative systems, both human and “more-than-human.”

Ecocultures of the Scala dei Turchi - Multispecies Thick-Map, Sicily, Italy
November 2024 - December 2025​
Multispecies Bruinsmap​
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Created in collaboration with Dr. Teresa Fiore for the Agrigento 2025 Italian Capital of Culture.

 

Each "layer" of this public-facing multispecies thick map focuses on one aspect or story of the site that guides viewers to the naturalcultural, transhistorical and multispecies entanglements that sustain the complexity and diversity of the physical, cultural and ecological aspects of the "Turkish Steps" in the Province of Agrigento.

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This exciting initiative is the start of what will hopefully become a multi-year sustainable multispecies thick-mapping project of the UCLA campus (the university mascot is the “Bruin” bear).

Global Somali Diasporic Foodways
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This completed project explores the (re)creation, (re)inscription, and dissemination of Somali nationhood vis-à-vis diverse culinary foodways utilized by its global diasporic communities.

Thick Mapping Project: Bison in Wind River Tribal  Buffalo Initiative

(Greater Yellowstone Ecocultural System)

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This ongoing project seeks to demonstrate via a public-facing resource the incredible yet challenging healing possibilities of embodied multispecies restoration at the Wind River Tribal Reservation in Wyoming, USA.
The Global Mediterranean - Between California and Europe
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This umbrella theme seeks to comparatively explore local and global locations of "Mediterreanean-ness" both in terms of an imagined cultural landscape and a material ecocultural and ecological system.

The "Long Italian Anthropocene"

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Europe's temperatures are increasing approximately twice as fast the global average due to anthropogenic climate change, making it the fastest-warming continent on the planet.​

Italian Foodways and "Dunki" Migrations

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This completed project illustrates the Cybercene era’s mechanisms of commodification, othering and wasting by starting with an ecocultural analysis of the life and death of a migrant agricultural worker in Italy in June 2024, Mr. Satnam Singh.
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