Author: astridaneimanis

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. Thank you so much everyone who joined our 5-year event on March 27th! There were over ~60 people who popped in and out during the day, joined the Keynote event, hosted a workshop or set up a self-led activities. We are so grateful for… Continue reading Celebrating 5 years at the FEELed Lab

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 Woodhaven friend Nancy Holmes, who is now also joining the lab as a community affiliate. I am retired now, but I continue to work on… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Nancy Holmes

This FEELed Note was written by Sierra Lammi, co-facilitator of the Land Healing Circle and Better World Club at Ponderosa Education Community (PEC) – a FEELed Lab community partner. As the plants begin to re emerge for the spring, so do people who care for them. The first Plant People Gathering of 2026 kicked off at the FEELed… Continue reading Re-emerging for the Spring

This FEELed Note was written by Emma Carey, Research Affiliate with the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project, in collaboration with FEEled Lab Director Astrida Neimanis. Now that we wrapped up the FEELed Lab’s Access and Inclusion project, we asked our team members to reflect on what they learned from the… Continue reading Poetic Learnings in Access and Inclusion

This FEELed Note was written by Emma Carey, Research Affiliate with the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project, in collaboration with FEEled Lab Director Astrida Neimanis. Through our access and inclusion project, we searched for best practices on 25 labs’ websites. During this process, it became clear that some labs stood… Continue reading Websites as Welcome Part 2: Access and Inclusion Champions

This FEELed Note was written by Emma Carey, Research Affiliate with the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project, in collaboration with FEEled Lab Director Astrida Neimanis. The main objective of Access and Inclusion in the Environmental Humanities was to learn how to better enact commitments to access and inclusion at the… Continue reading Websites as Welcome Part 1: A Field Scan of Access and Inclusion at Environmental Labs and Centres

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