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Cambridge research group studying social life, technology + the planetary through practice-based research. http://smartforests.net, http://citizensense.net, planetarypraxis.org.
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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jan 15
We are delighted to announce the launch of our project film Smart Forests 📽!

The film documents ongoing research into the increasing digitalization of forest environments. You can watch it now on our website: smartforests.net/smart-forests-film.
The text 'Smart Forests' over a blurry forest image in the background. Screenshot from the Smart Forests project film. Source: https://smartforests.net/smart-forests-film.
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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How can we restore landscapes with people, not just for them?

Jennifer Gabrys' & David Brown's research explores how communities lead & shape regeneration & what makes people-centred approaches fairer, democratic, & effective.

Read more on CLRs blog: www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/putting...
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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The review, published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social, develops an analytical framework and provide recommendations for community-based landscape regeneration to support and mobilise more democratic and socially just approaches to ecological regeneration initiatives.
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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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.
David Brown explains the ‘participatory mapping’ activity during a workshop. He stands beside a projected slide showing a map covered with colourful sticky notes and bullet points outlining the mapping process. Large printed maps spread across round tables in a workshop room.
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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...
Front page of the paper ‘Community-led landscape regeneration: A review of and framework for engagement in restoration initiatives’ published in Ambio by David Brown and Jennifer Gabrys (2025).
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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It proposes that a more deliberate encounter with forests as technologies could counterintuitively transform social-ecological relations and contribute to more equitable environmental practices.
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Analysing the technicities of trillion-trees research and initiatives, the paper shows how trees and forests can figure less as carbon removal machinery but more as community-based practices of cultivating and connecting with environments.
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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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/...
Front page of “This Machine Kills CO2”: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies” by Jennifer Gabrys, published in Science, Technology, & Human Values.
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Smart Forests uses tech + grey literature to rethink forest governance 🌲
With help from Policy Commons, they surfaced 60+ practice-based insights on equity and civic design.
policycommons.net/orgs/smart-f...
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#SmartForests #PlanetaryPraxis #ForestTech #OpenAccess
July 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Also check out the related Story by Michelle on the Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/en/stories/d...
Digital Kins: A Biodiversity Data Portal — Smart Forests Atlas
It is located in a rural area in the south-east of the Netherlands and residents have spent the last 12 years working towards sustainable forms of community living. The wooden structure of this buildi...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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This participatory research highlights the community’s nuanced relationships with local biodiversity and offers practical design recommendations for biodiversity technologies that can better align with local restoration efforts.
July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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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...
Front page of "Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships: Insights from Community Data Processes and Creative Practice" by Michelle Westerlaken, published in CSCW, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-025-09524-2?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250616&utm_content=10.1007/s10606-025-09524-2 Images of the community’s engagement with the installation where participants used their mobile phone to access open data through the QR codes. Images of different categories created by participants: ‘present or absent?’ (aanwezig of afwezig), ‘futures’. Some of the notes and data points that were added by participants. Image credit: Michelle Westerlaken, source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-025-09524-2?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250616&utm_content=10.1007/s10606-025-09524-2
July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social
The Professorship of Sociology (1985) at University of Cambridge
Apply for the The Professorship of Sociology (1985) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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June 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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रिपोर्ट दुनिया भर में वनों के डिजिटलीकरण के सामाजिक-राजनीतिक प्रभावों की पड़ताल करती है। चिली, इंडोनेशिया, नीदरलैंड और भारत के चार केस स्टडीज पर आधारित यह वन प्रौद्योगिकियों के लिए विविध समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाले दृष्टिकोणों को सुनिश्चित करने के लिए रणनीतियों का प्रस्ताव करती है।
July 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...
*समुदाय-नेतृत्ववालीवनप्रौद्योगिकी: एकस्मार्टवनअंतरिमरिपोर* का कवर पेज (2025), https://publications.smartforests.net/hi/community-led-forest-technologies/web-version.
July 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Laporan ini mengeksplorasi dampak sosial-politik dari digitalisasi hutan di seluruh dunia. Berdasarkan empat studi kasus dari Chili, Indonesia, Belanda, dan India, laporan ini mengusulkan strategi untuk memastikan keberagaman pendekatan teknologi kehutanan yang dipimpin oleh komunitas.
July 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Laporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...
Halaman sampul * Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat: Laporan Sementara Hutan Cerdas* (2025), https://publications.smartforests.net/in/community-led-forest-technologies/.
July 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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El informe explora los impactos sociopolíticos de la digitalización de los bosques en todo el mundo. Basado en cuatro estudios de caso de Chile, Indonesia, Países Bajos e India, propone estrategias para garantizar enfoques comunitarios diversos para las tecnologías forestales.
July 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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...
Portada de * Tecnologías forestales comunitarias: Un informe interino de Smart Forests* (2025), https://publications.smartforests.net/es/community-led-forest-technologies/.
July 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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You can read the full report on the web and in PDF format on our website:
Español: publications.smartforests.net/es/community...
Bahasa Indonesia: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...
हिंदी: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...
English: publications.smartforests.net/en/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The report explores the socio-political impacts of the digitalisation of forests around the world. Grounded in the four case studies from Chile, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and India, it proposes strategies to ensure diverse community-led approaches to forest technologies.
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.
Cover pages of ‘Community-led Forest Technologies: A Smart Forests Interim Report’ (2025) in English, Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi. Source: https://publications.smartforests.net/en/community-led-forest-technologies/
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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.
Pages from “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests” by Jennifer Gabrys in Common Sensing, by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli (Centre for Research Architecture). Pages from “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests” by Jennifer Gabrys in Common Sensing, by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli (Centre for Research Architecture).
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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This compelling collection gathers diverse perspectives on “sensory commons” and different ways of sensing environmental conditions across theory and practice, with multiple tools and instruments, and in contexts spanning Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey, Chile and more.
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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-...
Table of contents from Common Sensing, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli (Centre for Research Architecture). Back cover of Common Sensing, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli (Centre for Research Architecture).
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM