Planetary Praxis
@planetarypraxis.bsky.social
Cambridge research group studying social life, technology + the planetary through practice-based research. http://smartforests.net, http://citizensense.net, planetarypraxis.org.
Undertaken as part of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration research initiative @clr-cambridge.bsky.social, the authors map landscape regeneration and restoration initiatives across international contexts based on four themes around community organisation, land ownership, engagement and land values.
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Undertaken as part of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration research initiative @clr-cambridge.bsky.social, the authors map landscape regeneration and restoration initiatives across international contexts based on four themes around community organisation, land ownership, engagement and land values.
In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In this new article, 'Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships’, Michelle Westerlaken examines how digital biodiversity data is used in local restoration based on her fieldwork in a Dutch living lab: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In this new article, 'Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships’, Michelle Westerlaken examines how digital biodiversity data is used in local restoration based on her fieldwork in a Dutch living lab: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...
Laporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Laporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...
Nuestro informe provisional *Tecnologías Forestales Lideradas por la Comunidad* ya está disponible en español, en línea y en formato PDF: publications.smartforests.net/es/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nuestro informe provisional *Tecnologías Forestales Lideradas por la Comunidad* ya está disponible en español, en línea y en formato PDF: publications.smartforests.net/es/community...
Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.
The collection includes a new chapter by Jennifer Gabrys, “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests,” that draws on Smart Forests fieldwork in Chile, focusing on fire, fire technology, and community engagement with wildfires.
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The collection includes a new chapter by Jennifer Gabrys, “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests,” that draws on Smart Forests fieldwork in Chile, focusing on fire, fire technology, and community engagement with wildfires.
Check out this new publication, *Common Sensing*, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli at the Centre for Research Architecture.
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Check out this new publication, *Common Sensing*, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli at the Centre for Research Architecture.
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
This article is part of our “The Forest Multiple” special issue with Environment and Planning F: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epfa/4/2.
You can also listen to the Forest Multiple symposium and other Radio episodes on the Smart Forests Atlas platform: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
You can also listen to the Forest Multiple symposium and other Radio episodes on the Smart Forests Atlas platform: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This article is part of our “The Forest Multiple” special issue with Environment and Planning F: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epfa/4/2.
You can also listen to the Forest Multiple symposium and other Radio episodes on the Smart Forests Atlas platform: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
You can also listen to the Forest Multiple symposium and other Radio episodes on the Smart Forests Atlas platform: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
We show how multiple versions of smart forests are proposed, implemented, contested and transformed. We note, “It is as important to ask whose and which smart environment speculations are foregrounded, as it is to examine the material-spatial worlds that are built.”
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We show how multiple versions of smart forests are proposed, implemented, contested and transformed. We note, “It is as important to ask whose and which smart environment speculations are foregrounded, as it is to examine the material-spatial worlds that are built.”
In “Actually existing smart forests,” Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, and @yutiariani.bsky.social revisit the analytic of “actually existing” to consider how speculation is a critical component of how smart environments are composed and realised: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In “Actually existing smart forests,” Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, and @yutiariani.bsky.social revisit the analytic of “actually existing” to consider how speculation is a critical component of how smart environments are composed and realised: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Lydia and Tone each presented their research at the Forest Multiple symposium - available on Smart Forests Radio.
Lydia: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
Tone: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
Lydia: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
Tone: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
June 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Lydia and Tone each presented their research at the Forest Multiple symposium - available on Smart Forests Radio.
Lydia: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
Tone: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
Lydia: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
Tone: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
In “Putting the digit back in digital,” Lydia Gibson & Tone Walford foreground zero as a “digit” central to digitalisation, exploring how its numerical and conceptual forms transform and reproduce forest relations in ways that are calculative and deeply colonial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In “Putting the digit back in digital,” Lydia Gibson & Tone Walford foreground zero as a “digit” central to digitalisation, exploring how its numerical and conceptual forms transform and reproduce forest relations in ways that are calculative and deeply colonial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
This article is part of the Environment and Planning F special issue on “The Forest Multiple”, edited by Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Kate Lewis Hood, @yutiariani.bsky.social, and @trishantsimlai.bsky.social. You also can explore the paired playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
June 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This article is part of the Environment and Planning F special issue on “The Forest Multiple”, edited by Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Kate Lewis Hood, @yutiariani.bsky.social, and @trishantsimlai.bsky.social. You also can explore the paired playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
Steffen and Priscila’s aligned talk at The Forest Multiple symposium addressed cultural and political carbon values in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea. Their talk is available to listen to on Smart Forests Radio: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
June 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Steffen and Priscila’s aligned talk at The Forest Multiple symposium addressed cultural and political carbon values in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea. Their talk is available to listen to on Smart Forests Radio: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...
In their contribution, Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard at the Center for Climate IT at IT University of Copenhagen examine how tech-driven bioeconomy initiatives interconnect conservation and extraction, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In their contribution, Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard at the Center for Climate IT at IT University of Copenhagen examine how tech-driven bioeconomy initiatives interconnect conservation and extraction, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Listen to the paired radio playlist here: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
June 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Listen to the paired radio playlist here: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
Explore this related short post by co-author Trishant on the sociopolitical implications of conservation surveillance: atlas.smartforests.net/en/stories/d...
![An illustrative example of surveillance regimes in forest spaces. Image source: Adwait Pawar for Simlai (2021) [illustration]. Retrieved 8 August 2022, from https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.84136.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/bafkreifwu6zkpxb6ydwtbmzzlrska2q22rwaq33tplmn272czabeijayly@jpeg)
June 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Explore this related short post by co-author Trishant on the sociopolitical implications of conservation surveillance: atlas.smartforests.net/en/stories/d...
“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
This paper is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. You can also listen to co-author Naomi Millner’s related talk at our Forest Multiple symposium and other episodes in this playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
June 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This paper is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. You can also listen to co-author Naomi Millner’s related talk at our Forest Multiple symposium and other episodes in this playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...
In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,”
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,”
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Stay tuned for future posts about the collection and explore “The Forest Multiple" radio playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists/the-forest-multiple/
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Stay tuned for future posts about the collection and explore “The Forest Multiple" radio playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists/the-forest-multiple/