Two landscape architects create a multimedia platform encouraging Californians to rethink their relationship with fire.
This multimedia advocacy platform by two University of  California, Davis professors encourages Californians to rebrand their relationships with wildfire and intentional fire. Amid years of runaway burning, it offers fire-positive optimism to communities experiencing bereavement and enduring siege. It persuades vulnerable audiences to imagine intimacy with fire and offers sober choices: Embrace fire, resist it, or run away completely. The platform invites introspection and sharing around fire fears (postcards are offered as swag, and motorists may have already spotted a billboard). The antagonist isn?t fire but fire suppression, whose mascot, Smokey the Bear, faces a recall against a fresh slate of candidates campaigning on fire acceptance (front-runner: Burnie the Bobcat). Courtesy Brett Mulligan, ASLA, and Emily Schlickman, ASLA.
The book holds 27 narratives of fire environments worldwide. ?Most importantly, the book demonstrates how landscape architecture practice shifts with the evolution of environmental demands to benefit society,? said a juror. The project won an Honor Award in the Professional Communications category.
Emily Schlickman, ASLA,

and Brett Milligan, ASLA
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Courtesy Brett Milligan, ASLA, and Emily Schlickman, ASLA.
Courtesy Jael Mackendorf/UC Davis.
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