Month: December 2024

This blog was written by the FEELed Lab core-member and Place-Based Pedagogies Project Research Assistant Manuela Rosso-Brugnach (PhD Candidate at UBCO) under supervision of Dr. Natalie Forssman and Dr. Astrida Neimanis. As I reflect on our session with the wonderful Dr. Lindsay Kelley, as part of the FEELed Lab Place-Based Pedagogies Project, during her facilitation… Continue reading Translingual Sensoria

This blog post was written by the new FEELed Lab Administrator, Julia Jung. As of this year, we have the first full cohort of students at the FEELed Lab. This has made us reflect more on the specific ways we want to be as a Lab, ways of working together and planning for the future.… Continue reading How we are and wish to be: our FEELed Lab Values

On the last day of the Fall semester’s classes, the FEELed Lab convened its third “Welcoming the Dark” gathering. The dark falls fast at this time of year around here, and can be challenging in all kinds of ways. We convene this event not only to gather at the end of semester, but also to… Continue reading Darkness returns…

How can imagining other beings’ ways of experiencing their environment help us humans in creating healthier multispecies spaces? This is the question that Annie Furman, longtime friend of the FEELed Lab, asked, while devising a series of participatory community workshops that would be the anchor of her MFA Thesis in Interdisciplinary Studies. The Woodhaven EcoCulture… Continue reading Lifeworlds (of bats, sturgeon, trees, and Annie)

This is a guest contribution from FEELed Lab Alumna extraordinaire, Dani Pierson, who finished her position of FEELed Lab Administrator in Summer 2024, after defending her MA. We miss you so much, Dani! Paper copies of this beautiful zine are available at the Lab! Thank you, Dani, for all you have taught us!