Author: astridaneimanis

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Member Emma Carey, a Master’s student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program, who is also working on the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project When I first joined the access and inclusion project, way back in September 2023, the first task Astrida gave me was… Continue reading Recommendations for readings on access and disability justice

The FEELed Lab is thrilled to partner with Inspired Word Cafe (IWC) in a new SSHRC-funded Partnership Engage Grant that continues our work on the biodiversities of gender project. Biodviersities of Gender (or BOG, for short) is interested in making connections between gender abundance and ecological abundance – where many bodies, beings, places, and relations… Continue reading Biodiversities of Gender with the Inspired Word Cafe!

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab visiting artist/scholar Liz Toohey-Wiese, who is exploring the complicated topic of wildfires and their connections to tourism, economy, grief, and renewal… On Sunday, February 2nd, I drove from Vancouver to Vernon, where I am staying at the Caetani Center as an artist-in-residence and joining the FEELed Lab… Continue reading Quilted Connections: Grief, Resilience, and Community Through Creative Practice

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab associate Sierra Lammi on behalf of the Better World Club. BWC Starting up again on February 4th for interested middle and high school students The Better World Club is back! We are a group of middle and high school students passionate about taking action for the environment and the… Continue reading Preparing for Spring with the Better World Club

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 Liz Toohey-Wiese, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a visiting artist/scholar exploring the complicated topic of wildfires and their connections to tourism, economy, grief, and… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Liz Toohey-Wiese

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!