Environmental Intelligence
&
Participatory Science and Technology Studies
Our Portfolio
Our research centres on the intersections of society, technology and the environment, blending Artificial Intelligence with ethnographic methods to challenge dominant modes of knowing. Artificial Intelligence can be an incredibly powerful tool when used to tackle environmental crises and support more just and sustainable futures. However, these technological approaches must be critically assessed and used in conversation with communities in a way that is sensitive to differing epistemologies, methods, and scales of analysis. Our research group adopts a Science and Technology Studies (STS) lens to address this challenge, by critically engaging with diverse epistemologies to tackle socio-environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile and Nepal.
We bring the worlds of the very big in conversation with the worlds of the very small.
Our research blends Big Data analysis with ethnographic research and close reading. Utilising these methods, we aim to challenge and reshape the analysis of climate change narratives across mass media. We also explore colonial histories and their influence on urban space in the case of Mexico City, drawing from over five centuries of historical documents.
Our Team.
We are a group of transdisciplinary researchers exploring the intersections between environmental and climate change challenges, sociotechnical issues, and just futures. To do this, we integrate participatory and ethnographic methods with artificial intelligence and geospatial analysis. This has led us to conduct collective field research in different sites across the world and we are grateful to be funded by the University of Exeter’s world-leading Global Systems Institute to do fieldwork as a team, and through the Centre for Doctoral Training in Environmental Intelligence.
Fieldwork Gallery
We want to communicate what we do through some fieldwork images.
