Month: July 2023

What a year! It is amazing to think that 18 months ago, the FEELed Lab was just finding its feet – stretching out a few toes across the grass to test whether it could find its footing, and whether there would be anyone else in the field (FEELed) who wanted to join in. Fast forward,… Continue reading A year in the FEELed (2022/2023)

A contribution from Haida Gaede, FEELed Lab Associate Researcher for the ALT-2040 Project, which also includes researchers Natalie Forssman, Daisy Pullman, Astrida Neimanis and past contributors Madi Donald and Emilie Ovenden. Read more here. “Just as ecosystems thrive on diversity and respect for resources, we should look toward diversity as an enhancement to environmental education… Continue reading Beyond inclusion: Belonging in the Learning Environment

This FEELed note was prepared by FEELed Lab Administrator Dani Pierson. On Friday, May 13, I hosted Fringe Natures #11: Resting Together at the FEELed Lab. This workshop was a gentle introduction to and active experience of my master’s research that is attempting to articulate a Metis-feminist theory of rest as resistance. My research topic… Continue reading Restful Reflections

June at Woodhaven finds Bellevue Creek in full freshet, roaring across the rocks in a cappuccino coloured froth. It is barely recognizable as the same cold and quiet waters in which we soaked our feet in an afternoon in May at the FEELed Lab, sitting on the rocks still, tentatively shedding warm winter layers. As… Continue reading Water + Fire

A contribution from Daisy Pullman, FEELed Lab Associate Researcher for the ALT-2040 Project, which also includes researchers Natalie Forssman, Haida Gaede, Astrida Neimanis and past contributors Madi Donald and Emilie Ovenden. Read more here. What does it look like to center inclusion in environmental education? How can place-based methods be made accessible to all? Over… Continue reading Access and Inclusion in Place-based Learning

The FEELed Lab is delighted to partner with The Urban Indigenous Wellbeing Collective in support of the great work the collective is undertaking in the coming months! Please check out their website for more information, and come out to their first Speaker Series event on July 17. The Urban Indigenous Wellbeing Collective presents its first… Continue reading Urban Indigenous Wellbeing

A contribution from Therese Keogh, FEELed Lab Visiting Researcher from January to April 2023. I’m an artist, based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country on the south-east coast of Australia. From January to April 2023, I visited the FEELed Lab to work on my PhD in the company of new people in an unfamiliar place. I… Continue reading Visiting Artist and Researcher Therese Keogh: Reflections

Over five days in early April 2023, we – visiting researchers Therese Keogh and Rebecca Macklin and Director Astrida Neimanis of the FEELed Lab – did a road trip. We were headed to Fort McMurray, Alberta, as a way to gain different kinds of insights into the engine ofpetrocapitalism that is also known as the… Continue reading FEELed Trip: To the Tar Sands

As winter turned into spring at the FEELed Lab, we felt the urge to get crafty! Thinking about upcoming events (the field trip to the Tar Sands in April and Water + Fire in June), we wanted to be able to gift our guests, hosts, and others who had offered us their time and knowledge… Continue reading Craft-a-strophe! (Or, how to make thoughts in a time of crisis)

A contribution from Rebecca Ryall, FEELed Lab Associate Researcher for Littoral Listening, recounting the session she led in May 2023. Five participants, five countries, four faces and one in shadow.  What makes for a shadow? A shadow is a shadow, until it isn’t. Poetry from the shadow people – two erased, one denied and the… Continue reading In shadow