This interview took place in June 2023, when the world was looking at New York City being engulfed by a yellow and pungent smoke. The source of that smoke—the most severe wildfires to ever affect Canada’s forests—were quickly forgotten.

Lindsey Wikstrom’s recent book, Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (Routledge, 2023), is a vast and multidisciplinary research on mass timber and its environmental, social, and economic implications. The book is not a simple investigation of a new construction technique, but a narrative of the complex system of relationships between nature, humans, and technology: an ecology where the forest and the city, the nonhuman and the human benefit from each other through a new political dialectic.