FEELed Notes

This post was written by Mariam Al Barazi our new PEC and FEELed Lab new Community Development Coordinator and FEELed Lab member Jamie Stevens. On September 28th, the Ponderosa Education Community (PEC) and FEELed Lab hosted our first Plant People Gathering of the fall! We kicked off the night by lino-printing shirts with designs hand-carved… Continue reading What is the Badger Revolution?

This post was written by FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Neimanis The beginning of the school year is another occasion to restart habits that may have gone dormant over the summer. For many, this is an attempt to put into place tactics and strategies that can set us up to meet some of our expectations for… Continue reading Writing as a Practice of Being in Love with the World

If last year was a vortex girl summer, this summer has been a time of ~~strange confluence~~! This is what I’m calling that uncanny phenomenon where coincidences, confirmations and crossings happen with such frequency that they can’t be a mere chance … Surely you know what I mean? What is the universe telling us…?! For me… Continue reading ~strange confluence~

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 Samantha Jones, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a visiting artist and researcher in September 2026. Can you tell us about your work/research? Poetic Forecasts… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Samantha Jones

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab research affiliates and climate solution scholars Jamie Stevens and Estraven Lupino-Smith whose project explores the potential of using arts‐led social infrastructures to address polarization for Anticolonial Climate Justice, with contributions from FEELed Lab research affiliates Lola Melchior and revisions from FEELed Lab research administrator, Julia Jung.  As… Continue reading Otherwise Polarized Podcast

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab research affiliates and climate solution scholars Jamie Stevens and Estraven Lupino-Smith whose project explores the potential of using arts‐led social infrastructures to address polarization for Anticolonial Climate Justice. We are grateful for feedback and revisions from FEELed Lab research administrator, Julia Jung. In our previous FEELed Note,… Continue reading Connecting Otherwise

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. Thank you so much everyone who joined us for our Giving & Gathering lunch and craft-swap on Aug 26! ❤ This summer has felt like an especially heavy one. Last year’s informal FEELed Lab summer motto was “Vortex Girl Summer”, my motto for this… Continue reading Recap: Giving & Gathering

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. I’ve been feeling weirdly nostalgic this summer. Even though this is only my second full summer here it has felt like the end of an era. I am no longer introducing myself to people as “having just moved here” and something has shifted in… Continue reading Endings & Beginnings

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. We try to start and end FEELed Lab meetings with a little creative or grounding activity to arrive and leave the shared moment of our meeting together. For our first FEELed Lab Core meeting of the year, we tried a new intro activity that… Continue reading Plant Story Poetry

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Research Affiliate Susan Reid, who finished her postdoctoral fellowship at UBCO earlier this year. This note is an opportunity to report on fieldwork at the International Seabed Authority (ISA), one of several excellent fieldwork activities that formed part of my postdoctoral research. I cannot thank UBCO enough… Continue reading Fieldwork in our Collective Seabed