29/03/2021

Digital Ecologies

The Smart Forests research group is taking part in the Digital Ecologies workshop at the University of Cambridge from 29 to 30 March 2021. The event features work that engages with digitalization and more-than-human geographies. From the Smart Forests group, Michelle Westerlaken will explore how open world digital technologies enable us to explore monstrosity in less anthropocentric ways. Max Ritts will discuss the role of ecoacoustics and bioacoustics in environmental conservation and their potential impact on governance. Trishant Simlai will address surveillance technologies and forest labour in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (India). Jennifer Gabrys will present work on the Smart Forests project in a keynote lecture. Register and tune in for these and many other talks at the intersection of digital technology and environments.

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01/01/2021

New Smart Forests researchers appointed

We are delighted to announce the appointment of new Smart Forests research associates Danilo Urzedo, Michelle Westerlaken, and Max Ritts, as well as research assistant Trishant Simlai. Learn more about their research areas on our People page.

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15/10/2020

From Planetary Sensing to Becoming Planetary

How is it possible to “sense” the planetary? It is now not uncommon for the planetary to be invoked in discussions of technology. How might it be possible not to remake the pretensions of globality and globalization through planetary media projects, but rather begin to unsettle figures of totality and regulation in order to attend to the incommensurate, the unjust, and the yet to be recognized?

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01/10/2020

Hiring: 3 Postdoctoral Research Associates

The Smart Forests project is hiring 3 Postdoctoral Research Associates. The positions are each 3.5 years in duration. Researchers will be based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Applications were due 11 October 2020. We will announce news of our expanding research group soon.

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22/05/2020

Sensing a Moving Planet

Jennifer Gabrys discusses the role of sensors in composing and responding to environmental conditions as part of this Critical Zones exhibition launch event at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

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14/02/2020

Smart Forests and Data Practices

Published in Big Data & Society in February 2020, “Smart forests and data practices: From the Internet of Trees to planetary governance” provides a conceptual overview of the Smart Forests project.

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