This FEELed Note is from Grace Henri who is a research affiliate leading project “Nostalgia Forecast”, which investigates the complexity of eco-grief, and more specifically, how we mourn what we have not yet lost. Every day we line up small rocks by the shoreline. Methodically we push them into the smooth sand, spread equally apart… Continue reading Returning to the Shore: the Power of Ritual
FEELed Notes
“Walk as if your feet were ears”
When I met Anne Bourne in person for the first time over a year ago, she told me about a kind of listening that she has learned from Pauline Oliveros: walk as if your feet were ears. A few weeks ago, the FEELed Lab was lucky to gather a group of students, faculty and community… Continue reading “Walk as if your feet were ears”
Moving Through Dissonance: Making-sharing-healing Workshop for Global Justice
On March 9th, 2024, a group of 18 interdisciplinary research partners, faculty, students and members of intersectional community activist groups came together at the FEELed Lab for the workshop “Moving Through Dissonance: Making-sharing-healing Workshop for Global Justice”. Together, we made zines, shared a meal, and collaborated on posters, postcards and other materials to distribute in… Continue reading Moving Through Dissonance: Making-sharing-healing Workshop for Global Justice
Meet the Team: Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research
Hello everyone! Our UBC – Okanagan research team has been hard at work on the access and inclusion project, and we thought it was time to properly introduce them to you. Over the past few months, I have scheduled one-to-one meetings with each team member to ask them broad questions about their background and the… Continue reading Meet the Team: Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research
Multispecies Drag and Gender Abundance
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
Researcher Profile: Laura McLauchlan
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 profile is on Laura McLauchlan, a visiting researcher leading a workshop for the Biodiversities of Gender Project. 1. Can you tell us about your work/research? Increasingly, my work seeks to bring… Continue reading Researcher Profile: Laura McLauchlan
On raccoon feet, troubling wilderness, and taking the carpool.
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.
Reflections on Collective Eco-Grief
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
Researcher Profile – Alex Berry
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 Alex Berry who is joining the FEELed Lab to work on her project Sensing a Changed Climate in Early Childhood. Can you tell us about your work/research?My… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Alex Berry
Researcher Profile: Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp
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 Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp who is the FEELed Lab’s visiting researcher. Can you tell us about your work/research?In my PhD project I analyze anthropocentrism in human rights… Continue reading Researcher Profile: Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp
