Episode 1: In the Burn Zone Archival Ecologies

Two years after a devastating 2021 wildfire burned through much of their village center, community members gather in Lytton, British Columbia for a prayer walk. Big questions inspire and inflect the event: How can the community rebuild? And what will the new community look like? Lytton community members weigh in on preserving their multicultural histories and recovering community identity when the artifacts and cultural collections that represented them are gone.

Archival Ecologies is created and hosted by Jayme Collins. It’s a production of Blue Lab at Princeton University.