15/01/2025

Smart Forests film launch

The Smart Forests project film documents ongoing research into the increasing digitalization of forest environments. Developed as part of the ERC-funded Smart Forests project, the film shows how the rise of digital technologies for forest monitoring and governance can differently enable or constrain forest-dependent communities in locations worldwide. Covering research undertaken from 2020 onwards, it focuses on four in-depth case studies in Chile, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and India.

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19/11/2024

Sensing Air, Fire, Water, Earth

Jennifer Gabrys gives the keynote presentation, “Sensing Air, Fire, Water, Earth: How to Build Habitable Worlds with Citizen Technoscience,” for the launch of the CITEC Nucleo Milenio on citizen technoscience.

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04/10/2024

Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability

Jennifer Gabrys will deliver a keynote, “Composing Planetary Health in a World on Fire,” for the “Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability” workshop at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The event will explore the how the planetary and planetarities intersect with changing notions of health and liveable worlds.

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18/07/2024

Yuti Fatimah at EASST/4S

As part of the EASST/4S 2024 conference on Science, Technology & Society studies, taking place in Amsterdam from 16-19 July 2024, postdoc Yuti Fatimah will present a paper, “Unravelling the Complexities of Counterfactual World-Making in Carbon Offset Projects: A Case Study of Rimba Raya” co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys. This talk will be part of a panel on “Politics of Carbon Sinks. Knowledge, Institutions, and Shifting Understandings of the Environment.”

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16/07/2024

Michelle Westerlaken at EASST/4S

From 16-19 July 2024, postdoc Michelle Westerlaken will attend the EASST/4S conference in Amsterdam (NL) with a presentation titled “Simulating Biodiversity: The Digital Logics of Emerging Environmental Monitoring Technologies”. This talk will be part of a panel on “the improbable coalition of the “twin” green and digital transitions”.

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25/06/2024

Digital x Climate Summer Institute

Jennifer Gabrys will deliver a keynote, “AI x Digital Environmental Justice,” for the Digital x Climate Summer Institute at the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. The event will explore the multiple intersections of digital technologies and climate topics, including the environmental impact of digital devices.

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11/06/2024

Yuti Fatimah at Colonial Natures Conference

On 12 June 2024, Smart Forests postdoc Yuti Fatimah will discuss the multiplicity of carbon practices in her presentation, “Noticing the Forest: The Multiplicity of Conservation Practices in Bungo, Jambi (Indonesia),” at the Challenge of Conservation conference organized by the University of Cambridge.

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27/04/2024

Sensing a Planet on Fire: Listening with Forests

As part of the Preemptive Listening three-day event at the Tate Modern in London, Jennifer Gabrys presents work from the Smart Forests project, focusing on a case study on forest fires in Chile.

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08/03/2024

Michelle Westerlaken at WTMC

On March 8, 2024, postdoc Michelle Westerlaken will co-host a panel discussion on art and science at the Annual Meeting of WTMC (Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture) in The Hague (NL). This panel is organized together with Dr. Marieke Meesters and Prof. Esther Turnhout. WTMC is a collective effort of scholars based in the Netherlands who study the development of science, technology and modern culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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28/11/2023

Fundación Mar Adentro interviews Jennifer Gabrys

Jennifer Gabrys discusses the concept of a ‘smart’ forest, shares her insights into Chile’s pluralistic approaches to preventing and managing forest fires, and discusses the inclusion of Chile as a case study in the project. The interview occurred during Jennifer’s fieldwork visit in November 2023.

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20/11/2023

Forests as Technologies

Drawing on work from the Smart Forests project, Jennifer Gabrys considers the shapeshifting relationship between forests and technologies–where forests increasingly perform as technologies, and how forests and technologies are reconstituted as they are deployed to address environmental change. The talk takes place on 20 November 2023 as part of the EGENIS seminar organised by Exeter University.

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18/11/2023

Forests that Compute

In her online talk “Forest that Compute”, Jennifer Gabrys considers how computation takes place across digital, organismal, and ecological processes; and discusses examples of how smart forests and vegetalised technologies materialise through field observations, new collectives and vegetal policies for flourishing forest environments. This talk is part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023” organised by Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK).

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06/10/2023

Animating Digital Infrastructures: From Networks to Phygitalities

On 6 October, Jennifer discusses spatial figures of digital networks in her talk “Animating Digital Infrastructures: From Networks to Phygitalities” as part of the symposium and annual conference of the CRC 1265, “Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene”, in collaboration with the ICI-Berlin.

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26/09/2023

South Designs for Planetary Futures

Part of the lecture series, South Designs for Planetary Futures. Opening Roundtable Conversation with Paulo Tavares and Michael Uwemedimo, moderated by Kenny Cupers. Critical Urbanisms, University of Basel, Switzerland.

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12/09/2023

Forests as Environmental Media

As part of the upcoming symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023”, BEK invites artists, scholars and foresters to the workshop “Forests as Environmental Media: Vegetalizing a Smart Forests Atlas” led by researcher, writer, and practitioner Jennifer Gabrys.

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11/07/2023

Responsible Drone Use in Biodiversity Conservation

Trishant Simlai will be joining a discussion on how to monitor and protect biodiversity through responsible drone use. The event is organised by the University of Bristol and takes place on July 11.

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27/06/2023

POLLEN 2023

As part of POLLEN 2023, the Political Ecology Network’s 4th biennial conference taking place in South Africa, Trishant Simlai presents the paper, “Assertion and subversion through digital technologies: rights, sovereignty and counter-mapping by Indigenous pastoralists in India,” co-authored with Pranav Menon and Jennifer Gabrys.

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21/04/2023

Workshop on Environmental Media & More-than-human Infrastructures

On April 21 and 22, postdoc Michelle Westerlaken participates in a workshop on environmental media and more-than-human infrastructures organized by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and De Waag Society (NL). The event is organized by dr. Marek Jancovic, dr. Sebastian Scholz, and dr. Jolanda Veldhuis. The event includes a field day to explore environmental sensors and a presentation day where Michelle will discuss work on biodiversity monitoring technologies and multispecies design.

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02/03/2023

Michelle Westerlaken at City University London

Michelle Westerlaken will deliver a guest lecture on more-than-human and sustainable technologies at City University London. This lecture is part of the module on Design Justice. It takes place on 2 March 2023.
This event might be affected by strike action

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17/01/2023

Smart Forests and Wildfires

As part of Congreso Futuro (Regiones: Valparaiso), Jennifer Gabrys presents Smart Forests research, with a focus on wildfires and digital technology.

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