Knowledge mobilization is the process of transforming academic research into more tangible community benefits. This includes thinking about the people that are potentially affected by the research, formats that they might find most accessible to engage with and the timing of when to engage (Research Impact Canada).
Our work at the FEELed lab has always informally centered on this: projects and events build community and relationships, and that is the work. In this way, knowledge mobilization has been woven throughout our research and the approach we take to it. Going forward, we want to dig more into this and reflect on the ways we engage and build community.
This project will be a holding space for what we’ve done and learned by reflecting and implementing new strategies for this. Check out this FEELed Note to read about how this project started.
Crowd-sourcing for Community
Our theme of “crowd-sourcing community” responds to the ongoing work of the FEELed Lab to figure out how to build diverse community in troubling times. We have learned some important lessons; for example – that community is earned, not given; that all communities have internal tensions; that process is as important as outcome; that our potential community is broader, weirder, more wonderful and more diverse than we think; that this work can be very joyful. We have also learned that building community is work that has to be done together!
Read our most recent FEELed Note (Oct 2025) with an update on how our community crowd-sourcing has been unfolding.
In October 2025 our Instagram account has finally gone fallow. Instead of deleting our account, we are composting it through our Instagram Legacy Art Project. The project consists of a composite collage of 9 individual Instagram posts created by Manuela Rosso – Brugnach with associated captions curated by Julia Jung and edited by Astrida Neimanis. Each post explores a different facet of how and we we’ve chosen to let our Instagram account go fallow and how we feel about that. You can explore the posts and their captions in this FEELed Note.
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