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Arms, Connor

The Okanagan-Similkameen is a landscape of complex and often conflicting cultural identities and practices. Historically, the introduction of one group of people has meant the displacement of another. First pitched in 2002 and now close to realization, the arrival of a National Park Reserve is contested for being yet another erasure of the locals livelihood and autonomy. One of the biggest changes to the landscape itself will be the reintroduction of a prescribed burning regime within a mosaic of protected areas caught between public and private land. This project imagines a possible future where the reintroduction of prescribed burning might trigger spatial reactions that create degrees of separation between protected areas and the people who live here rather than distinct lines. The lens of this exploration is developed in Part One: a study of a gardener’s relationship with rhythms, layering, and time. Part two reinterprets these characteristics as the features of a game table, on which a narrative exploration of prescribed burns is imagined.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0406125

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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