Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire - the Pyrocene - and the many challenges and climate adaptation questions it provokes. Exploring our past and current relationships with fire, this companion book to the exhibition speculates on the pyro futures yet to be designed and cared for.

Drawing upon fieldwork, mapping, drone imagery, and interviews, this book documents 27 design case studies and curates them into three overarching approaches to fire: resistance, co-creation and retreat. We situate these case studies within reflections on past management strategies and colonial legacies (focusing on Yosemite National Park), and scenario-based speculation on what futures we might come to inhabit, all based on the kinds of relationship we foster with fire.

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