Tasting Climate Change

A composite image of a scribbled drawing of toast, a hand resting on some notes, a media player icon, and a plate of burnt toast.
How can tasting burnt toast help us taste wildfire, as part of climate change? Photo Credit: Jenny Moon

This FEELed Note showcases the work of FEELed Lab Research Associate and former UBC Okanagan SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Berry.  

How does climate change taste? This is an inquiry that Alex Berry explored with a class of education students last Spring, as part of a research project investigating sensory pedagogies for relating to place in a time of climate crisis.

If you are interested in the method that Alex devised to help answer this query, you can follow along in this podcast:

A full transcript of the podcast is available here.

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