Planetary Praxis

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-….

This case study segment is part of the Smart Forests project film produced by @mindthefilm in collaboration with on-site filmmakers, field school participants, and the Smart Forests research team @CamSociology. You can watch the full film here 📽: smartforests.net/smart-forests-…

Through workshops and field schools, the Van Gujjars explore how participatory mapping can help shift power relations in land politics, and how forest technologies can reshape gender and generational dynamics within the community.

Participatory mapping can be a key tool for claiming forest rights. In this film segment in India, @trishantsimlai explores how the Van Gujjar forest-dwelling community uses digital and non-digital mapping tools to claim forest rights: atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/sm…

This case study segment is part of the Smart Forests project film produced by @mindthefilm in collaboration with on-site filmmakers, field school participants, and the Smart Forests research team based in @CamSociology. You can watch the full film here: smartforests.net/smart-forests-…

The film segment explores how digital technologies can reshape engagements with biodiversity and forest ecologies, underscoring the need for pluralistic approaches to forest practices and technologies.

What is the potential for technologies to aid in biodiversity monitoring? In this segment from the Smart Forests film📽, @colombinary introduces the Netherlands case study, focusing on her collaboration with the ecovillage residents in @EcodorpBoekel: atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/sm…

This case study segment is part of the Smart Forests project film produced by @mindthefilm, in collaboration with on-site filmmakers, field school participants @KKIWarsi, and the Smart Forests research team @CamSociology. You can watch the full film here: smartforests.net/smart-forests-…

The film shows community patrol teams conducting forest surveys using GPS and mobile technology, monitoring native species and tracking illegal activities. It documents how community involvement is central to identifying how best to design and sustain forest carbon projects.

In our Indonesia case study, @yutiariani discusses her engagement with one of the first Indonesian community-led projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions from deforestation. Watch this Smart Forests film segment and review other resources here: atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/sm…

This case-study segment is part of the Smart Forests project film produced by @mindthefilm, in collaboration with on-site filmmakers, field school participants, and the Smart Forests research team @CamSociology. You can watch the full film here: smartforests.net/smart-forests-…

The film highlights how communities are building fire prevention plans and networks, while exploring how smart forest technologies support or impede their efforts. It features contributions from artists, researchers, park rangers, and conservation experts.

How are communities responding to wildfires in Chile? This case study segment from the Smart Forests film shows our research on forests, fires and technologies in a collaboration including Jennifer Gabrys, @Fmaradentro and Chilean partners @conaf_minagri: atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/sm…

@mindthefilm @colombinary @yutiariani @trishantsimlai @CamSociology Stay tuned! We’ll share highlights from each case study featured in the film.

The Smart Forests project film has been produced by @mindthefilm, in collaboration with on-site filmmakers, field school participants, and the Smart Forests research team @colombinary @yutiariani @trishantsimlai, based in @CamSociology.

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-….

This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F (@envplanf). Listen to the paired radio playlist here: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists/t…

Explore this related short post by co-author Trishant on the sociopolitical implications of conservation surveillance: atlas.smartforests.net/en/stories/dig…

“The gendered forest”, a new paper by Trishant Simlai @trishantsimlai and Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

This paper is the lastest of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F (@envplanf). You can also listen to co-author Naomi’s related talk at our Forest Multiple symposium: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the-f…

While acknowledging that pluriversal potential can be provisional and precarious, the authors emphasise that drones could become part of projects and designs that reasonate with Indigenous territorial rights and multispecies care.

In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential”, @NaomiMillner and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore four different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social and ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…