15th August 2023
Post-Extractivist Gardening
My artistic practice is shaped by the belief that large scale systems-based research questions cannot be approached from a single disciplinary lens...
9th June 2023
Digital Ecologies and Bionic Natures: Praxis and Practice
The 2023 Bionic Natures x Digital Ecologies workshop took place at the Klimahuset, an environmental exhibition and event space at the Natural History Museum in Oslo...
20th April 2023
On seeding fictions in hybrid spaces
This essay introduces Phytomorphism, an extended reality (XR) that utilises an experience in a physical and virtual reality (VR) environment...
3rd Feburary 2023
We are (not) the virus
During a week-long data sprint at the University of Amsterdam between 28 March and 1 April 2022, we set out to study how human-nature relations...
18th September 2022
The Slowness of Digital Ecologies in Practice
The 2022 Digital Ecologies in Practice conference took place at the University of Bonn on 28th and 29th July 2022. The first day of the conference ...
19th April 2022
Excel, Drones, and the Measurability of Forest Carbon
It’s a perfect day in the Central Highlands. Early summer. Sunny and breezy. Midge-free. We are standing on the crest of a ridge, with a loch shimmering...
23rd Feburary 2022
Minimal Ecologies
In recent decades, ecologists have paid increasing attention to questions of how and why animals move. The interlinked biodiversity crises of the Anthropocene...
3rd October 2021
Drone Ecologies: Exploring the opportunities and risks of aerial monitoring for biodiversity conservation
Drones, also known as unmanned [sic] aerial vehicles (UAVs), are becoming an increasingly common technology within conservation, with uses ranging from mapping vegetation cover, to detecting...
10th August 2021
Crash Theory: Drone entanglements with endangered species
6th July 2021
The afterlives of wildlife tracking devices
Much has been said about wildlife tracking devices (known by various names such as ‘tags’ and ‘loggers’), which researchers attach to, or implant in, animals to monitor ...
7th June 2021
Digital Biosurveillance: how digital ecology is about capturing the moment
Every year in April-May, Sweden is abuzz with The Great Moose Migration: a real-time sensing event that broadcasts moose movement and antics from a network of trail cameras in northern...
6th May 2021
OurChickenLife: Byproductive labour in the digital flock.
In a Birmingham street, if you wake up with the sun and open your window, you might hear the not-too-distant sound of a cockerel. Or, in a residential corner of London, as the morning grows long, you might just...
4th April 2021
Annihilation's fractal ecology
As Lena descends towards the centre of ‘Area X’ she plunges into ever refracting spatialities and weird, looping temporalities. She is a biologist—tasked with determining...
23rd March 2021