Publications

Key Texts

“The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds,” special issue edited by Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Kate Lewis Hood, Yuti Ariani Fatimah and Trishant Simlai. Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice. Contributions include: Véra Ehrenstein; Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard; Esther Turnhout and Casey Lynch; Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken and Yuti Ariani Fatimah; Naomi Millner and Mónica Amador; Trishant Simlai and Chris Sandbrook; and others forthcoming 2024.

Simlai, Trishant, and Chris Sandbrook. “The Gendered Forest: Digital Surveillance Technologies for Conservation and Gender-Environment Relationships.” In the special issue, “The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds,” Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice. (24 November 2024).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Programming Green Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City.” In Digital Ecologies. Edited by Adam Searle, Eva Giraud, Jonathon Turnbull, and Henry Anderson-Elliott. Manchester: University of Manchester Press (December 2024), 185-196. A reprinted and expanded version of “Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City.” Journal of Urban Technology.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensors.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies. Edited by Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin. Edward Elgar Publishing (October 2024), 587-595.

Ritts, Max. A Resonant Ecology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. DOI: 10.1215/9781478059882.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Michelle Westerlaken, Yuti Ariani Fatimah. “Actually Existing Smart Forests: A Proposal for Pluralizing Eco-Technical Worlds.” In the special issue, “The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds,” Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice (26 July 2024): 1-23. DOI: 10.1177/26349825241264393.

Longdon, Joycelyn, Michelle Westerlaken, Alan Blackwell, Jennifer Gabrys, Ben Ossom, Adham Ashton-Butt, and Emmanuel Acheampong. “Justice-Oriented Design Listening: Participatory Ecoacoustics with a Ghanaian Forest Community.” CHI ‘24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 560 (May 2024): 1–12. DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3643044.

Longdon, Joycelyn, Jennifer Gabrys and Alan F. Blackwell. “Taking Data Science into the Forest.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49, issue 1 (30 April 2024): 82-103. DOI: 10.1177/03080188241230415.

Ritts, Max, Trishant Simlai and Jennifer Gabrys. “The Environmentality of Digital Acoustic Monitoring: Emerging Formations of Spatial Power in Forests.” Political Geography 110 (April 2024): 103074. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103074.

Westerlaken, Michelle. “Digital Twins and the Digital Logics of Biodiversity.” Social Studies of Science (21 March 2024). DOI: 10.1177/03063127241236809.

Lewis Hood, Kate and Jennifer Gabrys. “Keeping Time with Digital Technologies: From Real-Time Environments to Forest Futurisms.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 42, issue 2. (first published online 16 February 2024): 252-274. DOI: 10.1177/02637758241229896.

Astuti, Rini and Yuti A. Fatimah. “Science in the Court: Expert Knowledge and Forest Fires on Indonesia’s Plantations.” Environmental Science & Policy 151 (January 2024): 103631. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103631.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Forests that Compute.” In Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience. Edited by Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023.

Urzedo, Danilo, Michelle Westerlaken and Jennifer Gabrys. “Digitalizing Forest Landscape Restoration: A Social and Political Analysis of Emerging Technological Practices.” Environmental Politics 32, no. 3 (2023; first published online 20 July 2022), 485-510. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2091417.

Fatimah, Yuti Ariani et al. “Multi-Level Actor-Network: Case of Peatland Programs in a Riau Village, Indonesia.” Geoforum 145 (2023): 103829. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103829.

Westerlaken, Michelle, Jennifer Gabrys, Danilo Urzedo and Max Ritts. “Unsettling Participation by Foregrounding More-Than-Human Relations in Digital Forests.” Environmental Humanities 15, no. 1 (2023): 87–108. DOI: 10.1215/22011919-10216173.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Internet of Trees.” In More Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Goda Klumbyte, 67-69. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022.

Westerlaken, Michelle, Jennifer Gabrys and Danilo Urzedo. “Digital Gardening with a Forest Atlas: Designing a Pluralistic and Participatory Open-Data Platform.” In PDC ‘22: Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference 2022 – Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Vol. 2 (August 2022), 25-32. DOI: 10.1145/3537797.3537804.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Michelle Westerlaken, Danilo Urzedo, Max Ritts and Trishant Simlai. “Reworking the Political in Digital Forests: The Cosmopolitics of Socio-technical Worlds.” Progress in Environmental Geography 1, nos. 1-4 (2022): 58-83. DOI: 10.1177/27539687221117836.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City.” In the anniversary special issue, Splintering Urbanism at 20. Edited by Colin McFarlane, Alan Wiig, Jonathan Rutherford, and Andrew Karvonen. Journal of Urban Technology 29, no. 1 (2022): 13-19. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004067.

Urzedo, Danilo, et al. “Indigenous and Local Communities Can Boost Seed Supply in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.” Ambio 51 (2022): 557–568. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01593-z.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site.” In the special issue, Critical Walking Methodologies and Oblique Agitations of Place. Edited by Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman (WalkingLab). Qualitative Inquiry 28, no. 2 (2022): 228-235. First published online 4 September 2021. DOI: 10.1177/10778004211042356.

“In Conversation with Jennifer Gabrys.” Interview with Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys. LA+ 12, GEO issue (fall 2020): 72-77.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Moving Planet.” In Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 342-343. ZKM and MIT Press, 2020.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Smart Forests and Data Practices: From the Internet of Trees to Planetary Governance.” Big Data & Society 7, no. 1 (14 February 2020): 1-10. DOI: 10.1177/2053951720904871.

Texts Forthcoming

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Community Ecology / Ecosystem / Automated Environments.” In Informatics of Domination. Edited by Melody Jue and Zach Blas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Forthcoming, May 2025.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Forests as Environmental Media: Vegetalizing a Smart Forests Atlas.” In Media Matters in Landscape Architecture. Edited by Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys. Applied Research + Design / ORO Press. Forthcoming.

Cavallo, Francesca L. in conversation with Jennifer Gabrys, Riar Rizaldi and Jana Winderen. “Sensing Invisible Threats?” Disclaimer. Forthcoming.

Related Texts

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Digital Anthropocene: Computing an Epoch in the Making.” Afterword written for the special issue, “Approaching Digital Anthropocene(s): A Double Vision),” edited by James Maguire, Astrid Andersen, and Rachel Douglas Jones. NatureCulture 6 (2023/24).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Environment.” In Reclaiming Technology: A Poetic-Scientific Vocabulary. Edited by James Maguire and Brit Ross Winthereik. Copenhagen: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books, 2023. Published online in the Technologies in Practice Lexicon.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “As Lichens Absorb Air Pollution, They Show Us the Limits of Livability.” In Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene. Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Planet in Crisis.” In Media+Environment 1, no. 1 (22 November 2019). DOI: 10.1525/001c.10036.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Becoming Planetary.” In the collection, Accumulation. Edited by Nick Axel, Daniel A. Barber, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle. e-flux (2 October 2018).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing Lichens: From Ecological Microcosms to Environmental Subjects.” In the special issue, The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions. Edited by Sheila Sheikh and Ros Gray. Third Text 151, vol. 32, no. 2 (2018): 350-367. DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2018.1483884.

Gabrys, Jennifer. Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing an Experimental Forest: Processing Environments and Distributing Relations.” Computational Culture, no. 2 (2012).