Keywords
wildfire visualization; ecological memory; ritual interface; data as grief and care; algorithmic storytelling; broken symmetry; relational design
Abstract
The Fire We Share proposes a care-centered, consequence-aware visualization framework that engages wildfire data not as static metrics, but as living archives of ecological and social entanglement. By combining plant-inspired forms, event-based mapping, and layered storytelling, the project foregrounds fire as a shared temporal condition that cuts across natural cycles, human voices, and policy contexts. Through ritualized interaction with pinecone metaphors and fractured tree rings, participants encounter wildfire not only as data, but as memory, testimony, and ethical relation. Rather than simplifying information into digestible visuals, The Fire We Share reimagines wildfire as a textured, wounded archive—embodied, relational, and radically ethical.