Pyro-mobilities

In an era of climate change, energy stories are fire stories.

This StoryMap came about as a result of lab co-directors Jean-René Leblanc and Sabrina Perić beginning to think about how wildfire narratives underlie much of the research they have been working on over the last four years, especially in Alberta. Lab associate Douglas Robb began a pyro-mobilities working group which started off as online discussions with landscape architects, artists and social scientists across North America. This online activity culminated in a 2026 visit to Waterton Lakes National Park to better understand how wildfire has interacted with landscapes and with people over the in the recent and distant past, and how it continues to shape us today.

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