LAX LAB 2.0 climate fiction book club
LAX LAB 2.0 is an international, online community book club dedicated to the stories and worlds of climate fiction. LAX LAB 2.0 is an experimental, living, collective space exploring the art and power of the written word through the lens of climate change. The project strives to build community and hope through open and inclusive dialogues on climate change through literature.
While climate fiction is a genre in itself, LAX LAB takes an expansive approach. Focusing on contemporary literary fiction more broadly, the book club aims to use climate change as a way of reading rather than only a genre. The book club priorities including a diversity of voices and perspectives, promoting themes of environmental and social justice. For more information on the goals of the book club, please refer to the mission statement.
Our reading themes for 2026 are: decolonialism, extraxction, and feminism.
The book club is organised through Substack. Please sign up to support the project, join the community, and be kept up-to-date on current books and upcoming events.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of LAX LAB 2.0 is to build community and serve as an educational resource for climate fiction while cultivating hope, inspiring social change, and deepening engagements between art and climate change.
LAX LAB 2.0 is led with five central methodologies and values at heart, prioritising creative, collaborative, inclusive, and intersectional approaches.
MISSION
Community and educational resource dedicated to the stories and worlds of climate fiction
Cultivating hope, inspiring social change, and deepening engagements between art and climate change
METHODOLOGIES & VALUES
Collaborative, open, and participatory research project that hosts a climate fiction book club, artist talks, and other activities
Co-designed curriculum developed by collectively engaging with literature through the lens of climate change
Crafting new ways of thinking, conversing, and co-creating knowledge about climate change through the arts
Creative approaches that centre experimentation and playfulness, openly challenging academic research norms
Commitment to inclusion and diversity, ensuring representation of diverse voices, prioritising accessibility, intersectionality, and climate justice
Book covers are original illustrations by Emma Arnold and may not be reproduced without permission of the artist.