Design By Fire - Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene

Drawing upon fieldwork, mapping, drone imagery, and interviews, this publication curates 27 global design case studies within the vulnerable and dynamic wildland-urban interface and its adjacent wildlands.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Stewarding Change 2. Landscapes of Fire 3. Pyric Lexicon Approaches to Designing with Fire 4. Resistance 5. Co-Creation 6. Retreat Epilogue 7. Pyro Futures

About the author

Emily Schlickman is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis whose research explores design techniques for accelerated climate change. Schlickman received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MLA from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Brett Milligan is a landscape architect and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis. There he is the director of the Metamorphic Landscapes Lab, dedicated to prototyping landscape-based adaptations to conditions of accelerated climatic and environmental change, through extensive fieldwork and transdisciplinary design research. Much of his work is based in California, undoing and reworking colonial legacies of land reclamation, water infrastructure, flood control, and fire suppression. He is a co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the human alteration and design of sedimentary landscapes, and co-author of the book Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making.

Summary

Drawing upon fieldwork, mapping, drone imagery, and interviews, this publication curates 27 global design case studies within the vulnerable and dynamic wildland-urban interface and its adjacent wildlands.

Product details

• Authors: Brett Milligan, Emily Schlickman, Emily Milligan Schlickman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032001494
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3200149-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Fire Science, environmental science, engineering & technology, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Botany & plant sciences, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Soil science, sedimentology, Botany and plant sciences, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Sedimentology and pedology