Forest Technologies Workshop film

The short film, Forest Technologies Workshop: Co-creating Environmental Knowledge and Practice, documents a knowledge exchange workshop held at Kew Gardens with policymakers, technologists and community groups to discuss the interim findings from the publication, Community-led Forest Technologies Interim Report. In this film, we hear from a range of key actors about their forest and technology practices, while discussing how to ensure forest technologies and developments are community-oriented.

Based on this interim workshop, we undertook our final Smart Forests case study in Scotland that focused on temperate rainforest regeneration. We then produced a final updated report incorporating workshop reflections and final case study findings. The final report incorporating workshop findings can be found at Community-led Forest Technologies: A Smart Forests Final Report.

You can view the 2-minute, 36-second film here or on our Vimeo channel.

The film has been created by Mind the Film and the Smart Forests research group. Full credits are available in the film.

We thank the University of Cambridge Social Science Impact Fund (SSIF), which together with the ERC Smart Forests funding helped to make this workshop possible.

To cite this film: Mind the Film with Smart Forests. Forest Technologies Workshop: Co-creating Environmental Knowledge and Practice film. United Kingdom, 2026. 2min., 36 sec. https://smartforests.net/kew-workshop-film.