Being one of the premier design-based wildfire consultancies in the United States is no small thing, which is why it started nine years ago. The consultancy's study of design, modelled initially after Carnegie Mellon University's design PhD program reading list, eventually began following its own path under occasional supervision. The findings of this dedicated read through the design literature have been shared in multiple conference talks, a chapter in a design textbook, a book on public safety, and a podcast.
Operational Coherence, a wildfire consultancy centered on design, focuses on what a client is creating, the use cases for it, its value proposition, and the primary and secondary possibilities and impossibilities the creation brings into being by design. Design is the process of making decisions about what should exist in wildfire, and then bringing it into being. Both phases of design are filled with opportunity.
Design as Operational Coherence practices, it is not about style and form, but how something brought into being by a client will operate in the world. The objective is to understand the needs being met and how, the technical limitations and capacities, what it makes possible by existing beyond the intended use, resource demands, and how it may affect the wildland fire management system as a totality over time.
It is not about throwing water further or making it look more appealing. It is about understanding how a designed product may operate in the complex world of wildland fire to support design and business development operations.
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