Drones and other remote imaging methods are drastically increasing in forestry, forest management, and conservation. These technologies make it possible to estimate harvestable quantities of forest products as well as to determine the state and health of protected and managed forests. However, the use of drones is ambivalent and oftentimes contested, since drone technology is known to increase surveillance and mechanisms of control of local populations.
Our guest Dr. Naomi Millner explains why drone technology is contested in the context of forest conservation. She investigates under which conditions and by whom drones can be turned into tools which strengthen the autonomy of local populations while also serving environmental protection. Dr. Millner will share her vast expertise on community led forest monitoring projects and report on the tendencies currently unfolding in the field. Participants will get the chance to discuss with Dr. Millner and deepen the conversation on drone use in forests, the valorization of nature, and on potentials for convivial resistance and community-based high-tech conservation.
This event is part of the public lecture series ‘High-Tech Valorization of Nature: (Re)Production, Technology and Politics in Green Capitalist
Projects’ hosted by the BioMaterialities Research Group at Humboldt University Berlin.
Join us on November 16, 2022, 6 p.m. (CET) for a public lecture + discussion with Dr. Naomi Millner (Bristol)
Zoom Link: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/66798623234
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