Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies

Project Information

SmartForests

Grant agreement ID: 866006

DOI

10.3030/866006

EC signature date 12 February 2020

Start date 1 May 2020

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 996 004,00

EU contribution

€ 1 996 004,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Other (4)

Digital Anthropocene: Computing an Epoch in the Making

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: NatureCulture, 2024, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: Osaka University

Sensing a Norwegian Forest

Author(s): Gabrys, Jennifer; the Bergen Foresters
Published in: Issue 15, 2023
Publisher: Smart Forests Atlas
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13868243

Community-led Forest Technologies: A Smart Forests Interim Report

Author(s): Phoebe Hamilton-Jones Jennifer Gabrys Michelle Westerlaken Yuti Ariani Fatimah Trishant Simlai Noel Chung
Published in: 2025, Page(s) 1-100
Publisher: Smart Forests
DOI: 10.17863/cam.115999

Hybrid Walking and (Un)Sensing the Forest

Author(s): Lewis Hood, Kate; Westerlaken, Michelle; Botero Cabrera, Andrea
Published in: Issue 16, 2023
Publisher: Smart Forests Atlas
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13868750

Monographic books (1)

A Resonant Ecology

Author(s): Max Ritts
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059882

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Unsettling Participation by Foregrounding More-Than-Human Relations in Digital Forests

Author(s): Michelle Westerlaken, Jennifer Gabrys, Danilo Urzedo, Max Ritts
Published in: Environmental Humanities, Issue 15, no. 1, 2023, Page(s) 87-108, ISSN 2201-1919
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/22011919-10216173

Taking Data Science into the Forest

Author(s): Joycelyn Longdon, Jennifer Gabrys, Alan F. Blackwell
Published in: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2024, ISSN 0308-0188
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Actually existing smart forests: A proposal for pluralizing eco-technical worlds

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Yuti Ariani Fatimah
Published in: Environment and Planning F, 2025, ISSN 2634-9825
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/26349825241264393

Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships: Insights from Community Data Processes and Creative Practice

Author(s): Michelle Westerlaken
Published in: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2025, ISSN 0925-9724
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-025-09524-2

The Environmentality of Digital Acoustic Monitoring: Emerging Formations of Spatial Power in Forests

Author(s): Max Ritts, Trishant Simlai, Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Political Geography, 2024, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103074

Science in the Court: Expert Knowledge and Forest Fires on Indonesia’s Plantations

Author(s): Rini Astuti, Yuti A. Fatimah
Published in: Environmental Science & Policy, Issue 151, 2024, Page(s) 103631, ISSN 1462-9011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103631

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Qualitative Inquiry, Issue 28 (2), 2021, Page(s) 228-235, ISSN 1077-8004
Publisher: Sage Periodicals Press
DOI: 10.17863/cam.74333

Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Journal of Urban Technology, 2022, ISSN 1063-0732
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004067

The gendered forest: Digital surveillance technologies for conservation and gender-environment relationships

Author(s): Trishant Simlai, Chris Sandbrook
Published in: Environment and Planning F, 2025, ISSN 2634-9825
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/26349825241283837

Smart forests and data practices: From the Internet of Trees to planetary governance

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Big Data & Society, Issue 7/1, 2020, Page(s) 205395172090487, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2053951720904871

Reworking the political in digital forests: The cosmopolitics of socio-technical worlds

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys; Michelle Westerlaken; Danilo Urzedo; Max Ritts; Trishant Simlai
Published in: Progress in Environmental Geography, Issue 1, nos. 1-4, 2022, Page(s) 58-83, ISSN 2753-9687
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/27539687221117836

Keeping Time with Digital Technologies: From Real-Time Environments to Forest Futurisms

Author(s): Kate Lewis Hood, Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2024, ISSN 0263-7758
Publisher: Pion Ltd.

Multi-level actor-network: Case of Peatland Programs in a Riau Village, Indonesia

Author(s): Yuti A. Fatimah, Zaenuddin Hudi Prasojo, Stuart W. Smith, N. Estya B. Rahman, David A. Wardle, Kwek Yan Chong, Asmadi Saad, Janice S.H. Lee
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 145, 2023, Page(s) 103829, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103829

Digitalizing forest landscape restoration: a social and political analysis of emerging technological practices

Author(s): Urzedo, D; Westerlaken, M; Gabrys, J
Published in: Environmental Politics, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0964-4016
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2091417

Digital twins and the digital logics of biodiversity

Author(s): Michelle Westerlaken
Published in: Social Studies of Science, Issue 54, 2025, Page(s) 575-597, ISSN 0306-3127
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03063127241236809

Indigenous and Local Communities Can Boost Seed Supply in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Author(s): Danilo Urzedo, Simone Pedrini, Daniel LM Vieira, Alexandre B Sampaio, Bruna DF Souza, Eduardo Malta Campos-Filho, Fatima CM Piña-Rodrigues
Published in: Ambio, Issue 51, 2021, Page(s) 557-568, ISSN 0044-7447
Publisher: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01593-z

‘This Machine Kills CO2’: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies

Author(s): Gabrys, Jennifer
Published in: Science, Technology & Human Values, 2025, Page(s) 1-36, ISSN 0162-2439
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01622439251346871

Book chapters (10)

Programming Green Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Digital Ecologies, 2023
Publisher: University of Manchester Press

Environment

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Reclaiming Technology: A Poetic-Scientific Vocabulary, 2023
Publisher: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books

In Conversation with Jennifer Gabrys

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys interviewed by Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys
Published in: LA+, Issue GEO issue, 2020, Page(s) 72-77, ISBN 1954081871
Publisher: Weitzman School of Design

Sensors

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies, 2024, Page(s) 587-595
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781800377998.ch61

Forests as Environmental Media: Vegetalizing a Smart Forests Atlas

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Media Matters in Landscape Architecture, 2024
Publisher: ORO Press

Community Ecology / Ecosystem / Automated Environments

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Informatics of Domination, 2023
Publisher: Duke University Press

Sensing a Moving Planet

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 2020, Page(s) 342-343, ISBN 9780262044455
Publisher: ZKM and MIT Press

Internet of Trees

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Posthuman Glossary 2, 2022, Page(s) 67-69, ISBN 9781350231429
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests

Author(s): Gabrys, Jennifer
Published in: Common Sensing, 2025
Publisher: Spector Books

Forests that Compute

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys
Published in: Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience, 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Conference proceedings (2)

Justice-oriented Design Listening: Participatory Ecoacoustics with a Ghanaian Forest Community

Author(s): Joycelyn Longdon, Michelle Westerlaken, Alan F Blackwell, Jennifer Gabrys, Benjamin Ossom, Adham Ashton-Butt, Emmanuel Acheampong
Published in: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024, Page(s) 1-12
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3643044

Digital Gardening with a Forest Atlas: Designing a Pluralistic and Participatory Open-Data Platform.

Author(s): Michelle Westerlaken, Jennifer Gabrys, Danilo Urzedo
Published in: PDC '22: Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference 2022, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 25-32, ISSN 978-1-4503-9681
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3537797.3537804

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds

Author(s): Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Kate Lewis Hood, Yuti Ariani Fatimah, Trishant Simlai
Published in: Environment and Planning F, 2025, ISSN 2634-9825
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2634982525132