Publications

Key Texts

Brown, David, and Jennifer Gabrys. “Community-led Landscape Regeneration: A Review of and Framework for Engagement in Restoration Initiatives.” Ambio (September 2025), 1-18.

Gabrys, Jennnifer, Michelle Westerlaken, Kate Lewis Hood, Yuti Ariani Fatimah, and Trishant Simlai, eds. “The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds.” Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice (June 2025). Contributors include Véra Ehrenstein; Esther Turnhout and Casey Lynch; Naomi R Millner and Monica Amador; Trishant Simlai and Chris Sandbrook; Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard; Lydia Gibson and Tone Walford; Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken and Yuti Ariani Fatimah.

Hamilton-Jones, Phoebe, Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, Yuti Ariani Fatimah, Trishant Simlai, and Noel Chung. Community-led Forest Technologies: A Smart Forests Interim Report. 18 February 2025. https://publications.smartforests.net/community-led-forest-technologies.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Forests that Compute.” In Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience. Edited by Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2023.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Internet of Trees.” In More Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Goda Klumbyte. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Moving Planet.” In Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 342-343. ZKM and MIT Press, 2020.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Planetary Health in Practice: Sensing Air Pollution and Transforming Urban Environments.” In the research article collection Healthy Publics: Transforming and Sustaining Health Research and Action. Edited by Steve Hinchliffe, Lenore Manderson, and Martin Moore. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7, no. 35 (2020): 1-11.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Smart Forests and Data Practices: From the Internet of Trees to Planetary Governance.” Big Data & Society 7, no. 1 (14 February 2020): 1-10.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Becoming Planetary.” In the collection, Accumulation. Edited by Nick Axel, Daniel A. Barber, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle. e-flux Architecture (2 October 2018).

Gabrys, Jennifer. Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2016). Open-access text available on Manifold.

Additional Texts

Citizen Sense

Gabrys, Jennifer. Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Open-access text and project materials available on Manifold.

Gabrys, Jennifer. How to Do Things with Sensors. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Forerunners Series, 2019. Open access text available on Manifold.

Mahajan, Sachit, Jennifer Gabrys, and Joanne Armitage. “AirKit: A Citizen-Sensing Toolkit for Monitoring Air Quality.” In the special issue, Air Quality Internet of Things Devices. Sensors 21, no. 12 (2021): 4044.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Planet in Crisis.” Media+Environment 1, no. 1 (22 November 2019).

Smart Forests

Gabrys, Jennifer. “'This Machine Kills CO2': Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies.” (July 2025), 1-36. DOI: 10.1177/01622439251346871.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Michelle Westerlaken, Kate Lewis Hood, Yuri Ariani Fatimah, and Trishant Simlai. “The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds.” Editorial introduction to special issue, “The Forest Multiple.” Environment and Planning F (June 2025).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests.” In Common Sensing. Edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli. Centre for Research Architecture book series. Leipzig: Spector Books (May 2025), 21-32.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Community Ecology / Ecosystem / Automated Environments.” In Informatics of Domination. Edited by Melody Jue and Zach Blas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (May 2025), 182-188.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Michelle Westerlaken, and Yuti Ariani Fatimah. “Actually Existing Smart Forests: A Proposal for Pluralizing Eco-Technical Worlds.” In the special issue, “The Forest Multiple: Composing and Digitalizing Wooded Worlds.” Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice (26 July 2024): 1-23. DOI: 10.1177/26349825241264393.

Longdon, Joycelyn, Michelle Westerlaken, Alan Blackwell, Jennifer Gabrys, Ben Ossom, Adham Ashton-Butt, and Emmanuel Acheampong. “Justice-Oriented Design Listening: Participatory Ecoacoustics with a Ghanaian Forest Community.” CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 560 (May 2024): 1–12. DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3643044.

Longdon, Joycelyn, Jennifer Gabrys and Alan F. Blackwell. “Taking Data Science into the Forest.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49, issue 1 (30 April 2024): 82-103. DOI: 10.1177/03080188241230415.

Ritts, Max, Trishant Simlai, and Jennifer Gabrys. “The Environmentality of Digital Acoustic Monitoring: Emerging Formations of Spatial Power in Forests.” Political Geography 110 (April 2024): 103074. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103074.

Lewis Hood, Kate and Jennifer Gabrys. “Keeping Time with Digital Technologies: From Real-Time Environments to Forest Futurisms.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 42, issue 2. (first published online 16 February 2024): 252-274. DOI: 10.1177/02637758241229896.

Urzedo, Danilo, Michelle Westerlaken, and Jennifer Gabrys. “Digitalizing Forest Landscape Restoration: A Social and Political Analysis of Emerging Technological Practices.” Environmental Politics 32, no. 3 (2023), 485-510. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2091417. First published online 20 July 2022.

Westerlaken, Michelle, Jennifer Gabrys, Danilo Urzedo, and Max Ritts. “Unsettling Participation by Foregrounding More-Than-Human Relations in Digital Forests.” Environmental Humanities 15, no. 1 (2023): 87–108. DOI: 10.1215/22011919-10216173.

Westerlaken, Michelle, Jennifer Gabrys, and Danilo Urzedo. “Digital Gardening with a Forest Atlas: Designing a Pluralistic and Participatory Open-Data Platform.” In PDC '22: Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference 2022 – Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Vol. 2 (August 2022), 25-32. DOI: 10.1145/3537797.3537804.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Michelle Westerlaken, Danilo Urzedo, Max Ritts, and Trishant Simlai. “Reworking the Political in Digital Forests: The Cosmopolitics of Socio-technical Worlds.” Progress in Environmental Geography 1, nos. 1-4 (2022): 58-83. DOI: 10.1177/27539687221117836.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City.” In the anniversary special issue, Splintering Urbanism at 20. Edited by Colin McFarlane, Alan Wiig, Jonathan Rutherford, and Andrew Karvonen. Journal of Urban Technology (2022).

Gabrys, Jennifer. “The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site.” In the special issue, Critical Walking Methodologies and Oblique Agitations of Place. Edited by Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman (WalkingLab). Qualitative Inquiry 28, no. 2 (2022): 228-235. First published online 4 September 2021.