Archive of Vibrant Matter | Burnt tree trunk

Basic Data

Description: An increasingly common element of our vegetal surroundings. 2017 was a particularly painful year in Portuguese forests and homes.
Credit: Author of entry: Tiago
Submitted by: Eugenia Morpugo
Typology: Artefact
Origin, Location and Movement?: Local (Resident in a locality or region)
Item Relation: Individual Thing
State of abundance: Common
Date of creation: 2021-05-01
How was the item encountered or obtained?: Foraged

Socio-cultural Data

Historical Uses

While burning practice can be used sustainably, devastation created by fires during the last few years has been unprecedented.

Present Impact

The impact of fire has reached a global scale: form California, through Australia, to Indonesia. 2017 was a particularly painful year for Portuguese forests and homes.

Technical Data

Bio-temporal-geographical Data

Residence time (How long does the matter/material/artefact stay in an unaltered state in the location/context/system before it decay?)

Years

How does the item affect the environment in which it exists?

I don't Know

Ontological-cosmological Data

Devastation

How would you like to be with this artefact/material/living thing/matter?

New policies and techniques are required to avoid the all-too-common mega-fires.

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Burnt tree trunk

Artefact, Individual Thing, Common, Foraged, Years