FEELed Notes

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

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 Hung-Fei Wu, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a visiting artist and researcher in September 2026. Join Fei and Astrida in conversation on Monday, September… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Hung-Fei Wu

For the last three years (give or take), the FEELed Lab has been involved in a project called “Biodiversities of Gender” (or BOG for short!) This project (as you can read on the project page and in earlier FEELed Notes) sought to bring together ideas of gender abundance, Land relations (including being in good relations… Continue reading Learning abundance: wrapping up BoG

On April 11, FEELed Lab Director Astrida (that’s me!) teamed up with the UBC Centre for Climate Justice and our friends at the Belkin Gallery at UBC Vancouver to present Smoke Forecast – a one day symposium to mark the close of Structure of Smoke, a show that had been curated by Tania Willard and… Continue reading Smoke Forecast

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. On August 7, 2025, a… Continue reading The Problem of Polarization

This post was originally published by the Center for Climate Justice. You can view the original post here. On April 23, the FEELed Lab and the Center for Climate Justice hosted a film screening of Juan Francisco Salazar’s latest film “Cosmographies” in Kelowna’s Innovation Center. The screening concluded with a Q&A with the director. When… Continue reading RECAP | Cosmographies by Juan Francisco Salazar

On May 8, our community affiliate Nancy Holmes hosted an Ecofiction Reading featuring Liz Johnston in conversation with local fiction writer Corinna Chong. We are grateful to Nancy and the Friends of Woodhaven for hosting such a wonderful event and are excited for more to come! Johnston’s novel, The Fall-Down Effect, spans thirty-one years in the… Continue reading An Ecofiction Reading Review

This FEELed Note was written by Research Affiliate Fabiola Melchior working on the Supporting Syilx-led partnership initiatives and Climate Justice Graduate Student Community project. This project is supported by the Principal’s Research Chair in Communities, Justice and Sustainability, The Centre for Climate Justice and the FEELed Lab. On May 22, the third Land as Teacher… Continue reading Land as Teacher: Experiential land-based workshop (continues)