FEELed Notes

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

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!)