FIRE
GROUNDS
Location: Cape Cod, MA
Program: Ecological Infrastructure
Category: Academic, Fall 2014, Harvard GSD
Collaborators: Weaam Alabdullah, Rachel Bedet
Instructors: Andrea Hansen, Pierre Belanger
Responding to the growing risk of wildfires triggered by global temperature rise, and anticipating the decommissioning of Joint Base Cape Cod by the U.S. military, this project proposes a fire management regime to reclaim public lands. Fire is rebranded and used to create a cultural fire spectacle, renew Cape Cod’s fire-adapted ecologies and reduce fire risk for local residents. We offer a temporal and physical methodology which could be applied on a regional scale to fire-prone environments in the Northeast and, with allowances for local vegetation, across the United States.
Program: Ecological Infrastructure
Category: Academic, Fall 2014, Harvard GSD
Collaborators: Weaam Alabdullah, Rachel Bedet
Instructors: Andrea Hansen, Pierre Belanger
Responding to the growing risk of wildfires triggered by global temperature rise, and anticipating the decommissioning of Joint Base Cape Cod by the U.S. military, this project proposes a fire management regime to reclaim public lands. Fire is rebranded and used to create a cultural fire spectacle, renew Cape Cod’s fire-adapted ecologies and reduce fire risk for local residents. We offer a temporal and physical methodology which could be applied on a regional scale to fire-prone environments in the Northeast and, with allowances for local vegetation, across the United States.
Fire is rebranded to create a cultural fire spectacle, renew Cape Cod’s fire-adapted ecologies and reduce fire risk for local residents.
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