Author: astridaneimanis

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… Continue reading Building Momentum beyond the Desk

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,… Continue reading Field_Notes 2025 (FEELed Lab in the Field!)

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… Continue reading THIS IS NOW COMPOST – Why we are letting our Instagram account go fallow

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… Continue reading Land as Teacher: Experiential land-based workshops

Congratulations to FEELed Lab Researcher Emma Carey who successfully defended her MA Thesis, “Growing Plant Love: Park User Perceptions of Invasive Plants in Two Regional Parks of Kelowna, BC” on Tuesday! With this, Emma joins the cohort of graduates from UBCO’s MA in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (Sustainability Theme). Emma has spent the last 2 years… Continue reading Growing Plant Love (and an MA)!

This FEELed Note was written by Clara Kleininger-Wanik. You can watch Clara’s multispecies documentary, Thirsty, here! The first thing I found in the studio at the FEELed Lab, in the middle of Woodhaven Park, where I was to stay for five weeks: a diary, logging 11 years of humans who have stayed in this room.… Continue reading Thirsty: A Month of Encounters in Woodhaven Park

This FEELed Note was written by Robin Metcalfe and Julia Jung. On October 8 and 17, we hosted the first grad student community gatherings, as part of the “Supporting Syilx-led partnership initiatives and Climate Justice Graduate Student Community” project. We wanted to think together about what a Climate Justice Graduate Student Community can look like.… Continue reading Centre for Climate Justice Grad Student Community Gatherings

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on long-time FEELed Lab friend Robin Metcalfe, who officially joined the lab as a researcher in September 2025. My doctoral research explores the implementation and implications of… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Robin Metcalfe

This FEELed Note is part of our occasional series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. Transformations by Nadia Huggins is a series of diptychs. Diptychs are artworks consisting of two panels that, when put together, create a whole art piece. There are eleven sets of panels here, each of which produces an image through entanglement,… Continue reading Transformations

Fall means it’s time to harvest, to gather our crops and tools and make our homes cozy to prepare for the coming winter season. We’ve had a busy month of preparing for the next season of our knowledge mobilization and community building journey.  This means finally, after many announcements, we will actually say goodbye to… Continue reading Time for Swag – Community crowd-sourcing Update