Lectures, talks, and more.

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Future Cities Catapult

Closing keynote, titled ‘Human Dot to Non-Human Dot: Connecting Human Places to Abiotic and Biotic Systemic Spaces’, explaining how wildland, and peri-urban and urban fires of past and present can inform built environment policy, planning, and design futures.

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Canadian Institute of Planners

Closing keynote, titled ‘[Re]Generation[s]: Once in Many Lifetimes Opportunities’, discussing how the disparity between human and non-human, and indigenous and non-indigenous systems may be reconciled if applying lessons learned from fire-adapted species and cultures.

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World Bank / GFDRR

Closing keynote, titled ‘At the Interface: Where Planetary and Human Systems Meet’, exploring how leading-edge STEM-based innovations, including studies of fire-adapted flora and fauna, in concert with the ilk of satellite, arial, and terrestrial sensing and processing systems, offer novel approaches to building resilience to hazards.

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5x15 at Wilderness Festival

Keynote titled, ‘Wildfire in the Wilderness: Wildfire, Ecology, and Us’ presenting how human societies have embraced different fire cultures over time; how and why wildfire behaviour is changing; and how mimicry of fire-adapted flora presents compelling new opportunities in mitigating the risks that wild and urban fires present.

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The Monument Masterclass

Masterclass delivered atop The Monument, as part of the national commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, discussing how the event catalysed new approaches to building and the urban environment, and why climate change, biodiversity and habitat loss necessitate another paradigmatic shift in how we build.

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Beautiful Thinking campaign

One of six sustainable innovation champions selected for Interface Inc’s year-long ‘Beautiful Thinking’ campaign, delivered a short-film, a keynote, and contributions to an exhibition and print and digital media , discussing how mimicry of fire-adapted and other flora can inform and inspire resilient, elegant, and novel design solutions.