Author: astridaneimanis

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… Continue reading A year of mobilizing knowledge with and for community

This research blog post was prepared by FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Neimanis “How do we vibrate the images we desire?”* “How can we bring others into a story-thread of healing and resurgence?”* “How do we compost or hospice ideas of the future that need to be let go of?”* “How do we attend to the… Continue reading “How do we vibrate the images we desire?”* Considering Feminist and Anticolonial Climate Justice, in the upside-down

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab Administrator Julia Jung. Deir new publication “Sensing the Ocean through the Exquisite Corpse ArtScience method” is out now, you can read the full paper here. When I tell people that my PhD project explores the potential of polyamorous thinking to support relationship development in transdisciplinary collaborations within… Continue reading The Project before the Projects

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab Administrator Julia Jung. On January 16, we continued our longest-standing annual tradition at the FEELed Lab: A ‘Welcoming the Dark’ event. Usually, we held those events at the end of the semester as an end-of-term celebration. This year, we wanted to try something different and decided to… Continue reading Welcome back to the Dark

This FEELed Note is an interview with artist and scholar Dawn Roe about her recent show Super | Natural which partly emerged from our 2025 FEELers Summer Camp. The show includes a print-on-demand zine with a text response contributed by FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Neimanis. You can find a free digital version of the booklet… Continue reading Super | Natural FEELz

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)!