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Redesigning Resilience Through Whole-System Thinking

A Survival of the Readiest Program

Learn the best practices in fire and drought resistant landscaping with Studio Petrichor.

From Burn to Bloom: Redesigning Resilience Through Whole-System Thinking is a powerful and personal talk by regenerative designers Shawn Maestretti (Studio Petrichor) and Leigh Adams (Poly/Ana), who share their lived experience of preparing for—and living through—a firestorm.

But this isn’t a talk about loss. It’s a talk about relationship—with land, with fire, with community, and with the future we are all co-creating. Blending real-time fire response with decades of ecological wisdom, this talk explores the flaws in our current fire safety narratives and offers a living, practical alternative: whole-system design. Through vivid storytelling, critical unlearning, and grounded strategies for tending the land, you'll be invited to re-imagine the home not as a structure to defend, but as an ecosystem to relate to. This is for homeowners, designers, policymakers, builders, land stewards, and anyone ready to shift from fear to connection—especially those living on the edge of wildness.

Because the most resilient design isn’t just in the land. It’s in how we re-imagine who we can be! 

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