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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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Centre for Landscape Regeneration @clr-cambridge.bsky.social · 15h

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...

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 7d

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).

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 15

It proposes that a more deliberate encounter with forests as technologies could counterintuitively transform social-ecological relations and contribute to more equitable environmental practices.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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Coherent Digital @coherentdigital.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 10

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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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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।

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

*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.

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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/.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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/.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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...

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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/

Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jun 17

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).

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jun 17

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).

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jun 12

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...

Screenshot showing the list of episodes in The Forest Multiple playlist on Smart Forests Radio.