This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab Administrator Julia Jung.
In late 2024, Astrida and I had a conversation about our Instagram account. Meta had just changed their fact-checking policy, and other limitations of social media were becoming more apparent to us. This coincided with an opportunity for graduate students in UBCO’s IGS 585 Knowledge Mobilization and Sustainability Policy seminar to collaborate with a campus group on knowledge mobilization. We decided to take this as an opportunity to invite students in the seminar (including Nela Bruganch-Rosso, Christian Wiewelhove and me) to evaluate the Lab’s approach to knowledge mobilization more generally. This grew into our Mobilizing Knowledge for and with Community project.
From January to March 2025, we developed a Knowledge Mobilization Strategy. This included a community-building survey to find out more about how people currently engage with the Lab and what is important to them. We also reflected deeply on other already-existing knowledge mobilization practices and how to strengthen them.
Our FEELed Notes research blog and the FEELed Guide are cornerstones of our knowledge mobilization, so we considered how to strengthen these. In the future, we hope to expand the research blog, particularly as a way to share thoughts and perspectives of lab affiliates and community members
We’ve been slowly exploring the possibility of setting up our own FEELed Lab journal as one avenue for increasing accessibility and “cite-ability” of our research blogs. You can read more about this idea in a recent publication in the Goose:
Jung J, Rosso-Brugnach M, Wiewelhove C (2025) Using Research Blogs to Combine Community and Capacity Building in the FEELed Lab, Imaginations, Vol. 16 No. 1 (2025): Sustainable Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29745“
Another idea was exploring more analog ways of building our community. To this end, in August we hosted a Craft-a-strophe! session with the theme “Crowd-sourcing community”. Here, we created FEELed Lab buttons, post-cards and patches that we will be sending out soon as snail-mail, to say a little thank you to people who subscribed to the FEELed Guide.
But perhaps most significantly, in October 2025 we let our Instagram account go 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 me and text edited by Astrida Neimanis. Each post explores a different facet of how and why we’ve chosen to let our Instagram account go fallow. You can explore the posts in this FEELed Note.
Our next step is to share our strategy with you! We’d love to connect with others who also have questions about knowledge mobilization – particularly in a time when the social media landscape is changing, a more and more folx are looking for different ways to build community and share research. You can read our strategy below.
Please email us at feeledlab@gmail.com if you have any comments, questions or suggestions!
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