Emily Schlickman is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design at UC Davis. Her research and creative work sit at the intersection of wildfire adaptation, landscape stewardship, and environmental design.

 

She is interested in how people understand, live with, and care for fire-prone landscapes, and how design can help reframe fire beyond dominant narratives of suppression and crisis. Her work often combines scholarship, design research, public engagement, and hands-on practice, exploring alternative ways of planning, teaching, and communicating about fire and climate change.

 

Across projects, she experiments with emerging tools and media, from exhibitions to children’s books, to make complex ecological ideas more accessible and relational.