THE FEELed LAB
“We are feel-ers, with feelers, trying better to feel the world”
The FEELed Lab is a collaborative and interdisciplinary feminist environmental humanities field lab located on unceded syilx territory in Kelowna, BC.
Happenings at the Lab:
January 16 – Welcome back!
To start the new year and semester and to beat the January blues, we are hosting another cozy full FEELed-Day with two consecutive events.
Start your day with connecting, setting intentions and easing into the work of this semester during January’s Beyond the Desk session and join us in taking a moment to reflect on who has been keeping us company in the Dark in the evening:
9:30 – 4:00 pm
4- 6pm
Credit: Mike Bartick / Ocean Image Bank
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Latest Posts
Building Momentum beyond the Desk
This FEELed Note was written by core FEELed Lab member and Beyond the Desk co-facilitator Tom Letcher-Nicholls. On November 10th, the FEELed Lab hosted the second meeting of the project “Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration at Woodhaven Eco-Culture Centre.” Beyond the Desk (BtD) is a student-led project, co-led by Manuela…
Field_Notes 2025 (FEELed Lab in the Field!)
FEELed Lab Director Astrida Neimanis on visiting, living methodologies, and trying things out, at Field_Notes field laboratory in Sápmi in September 2025 The FEELed Lab is a project grounded in place: specifically, the unceded territories of the syilx people, and even more specifically – a small, thirsty place on those lands, adjacent to Bellevue Creek,…
THIS IS NOW COMPOST – Why we are letting our Instagram account go fallow
As part of our knowledge mobilization project, our Instagram has finally gone fallow. Instead of deleting our account, we are composting it through our Instagram Legacy Art Project. The project consists of a composite collage of 9 individual Instagram posts created by Manuela Rosso – Brugnach with associated captions curated by Julia Jung and edited…
Land as Teacher: Experiential land-based workshops
Syilx people are the best protectors of our syilx lands, waters and timixʷ, and we need everyone who lives here on our territory to feel and act that way.” — Jeannette Armstrong On October 14, 2025, and October 19, 2025, respectively, two groups of settlers from diverse realms of the Central Okanagan community gathered at…
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The FEELed Lab is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, working across the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the UBC Okanagan.
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