Author: astridaneimanis

On 2 March, we launched Biodiversities of Gender, a new project at the lab (read more here) with our first workshop: Multispecies Drag! The aim of this gathering was to experiment with how drag can help us think about and practice gender abundance in ways that may extend beyond our typical understandings of human gender.… Continue reading Multispecies Drag and Gender Abundance

This FEELed Note is the next update from our SSHRC-funded “Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice” Project. This project’s intent is to explore access and inclusion as it manifests (or doesn’t) at environmental field research labs – such as the FEELed Lab. As it unfolds, we are also realizing that it’s just as… Continue reading On raccoon feet, troubling wilderness, and taking the carpool.

This FEELed Note is the second post from Grace Henri, a research affiliate leading the project “Nostalgia Forecast”, which investigates the complexity of eco-grief, and more specifically, how we mourn what we have not yet lost.  There are vines slowly making their way up the side of my home – of our home. I think, even,… Continue reading Reflections on Collective Eco-Grief

A contribution from FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Neimanis. Since its inception, the FEELed Lab has been about building community and sharing the kinds of thinking, making and doing that happens in a very situated way (even when on ZOOM) at the Lab. I also have a pretty robust research program that I used to think… Continue reading Extending the FEELed

On October 18 we convened our first event of the year at the FEELed Lab as part of our “Craft-a-strophe!” series. As the name suggests, this series uses making things (“craft”) and thinking with poetry (“strophe” is a technical word for part of a poem) as a way to feel our way into the catastrophes… Continue reading Micropoems for microclimates

Hello, fellow FEELers! We are returning a little more slowly this year… the summer months brought many challenges, not least the catastrophic drought and the wildfires which were felt by all of us in this place, in different ways. The late September rain was very welcome, and had me (as a settler here) contemplating one… Continue reading Returning…

What a year! It is amazing to think that 18 months ago, the FEELed Lab was just finding its feet – stretching out a few toes across the grass to test whether it could find its footing, and whether there would be anyone else in the field (FEELed) who wanted to join in. Fast forward,… Continue reading A year in the FEELed (2022/2023)

A contribution from Haida Gaede, FEELed Lab Associate Researcher for the ALT-2040 Project, which also includes researchers Natalie Forssman, Daisy Pullman, Astrida Neimanis and past contributors Madi Donald and Emilie Ovenden. Read more here. “Just as ecosystems thrive on diversity and respect for resources, we should look toward diversity as an enhancement to environmental education… Continue reading Beyond inclusion: Belonging in the Learning Environment

June at Woodhaven finds Bellevue Creek in full freshet, roaring across the rocks in a cappuccino coloured froth. It is barely recognizable as the same cold and quiet waters in which we soaked our feet in an afternoon in May at the FEELed Lab, sitting on the rocks still, tentatively shedding warm winter layers. As… Continue reading Water + Fire

A contribution from Daisy Pullman, FEELed Lab Associate Researcher for the ALT-2040 Project, which also includes researchers Natalie Forssman, Haida Gaede, Astrida Neimanis and past contributors Madi Donald and Emilie Ovenden. Read more here. What does it look like to center inclusion in environmental education? How can place-based methods be made accessible to all? Over… Continue reading Access and Inclusion in Place-based Learning