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Designing the Commons: Places that Support Community Ownership
This thesis explores how landscape architects can support community-owned placemaking in cities. Community ownership refers to models of non-commodified collective legal and psychological ownership, especially as applied ... -
Digital Media in Landscape Architecture Design Process
In this work I argue for the urgency of active innovation in design process in the landscape architecture profession. I propose that reticence to innovate runs counter to current landscape architecture theory; that the ... -
[Dis]placed by Illness: Lyme Disease as a Case for Re-Imagining Everyday Places to Recognize Invisible Chronic Illnesses
Over 300,000 people contract Lyme disease each year in the United States. Commonly known as a vector-borne illness, Lyme disease can also become a debilitating chronic condition that can affect individuals for the rest of ... -
Eco-Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change: Adaptive Strategies for Sacramento's Midtown
This thesis seeks to examine the intersection of urbanization and climate change and asks how design can play a part in developing sustainable, healthy, vibrant, and adaptive cities. More specifically, it asks “How do we ... -
EMBODYING ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY
This thesis is a creative endeavor that explores experience in place of post-industrial landscapes. I designed and created an e-textile piece, “Embodying Environmental Landscape”, in the hopes to dive deeper into site. -
Emerging Identity: Envisioning Eco-cultural Infrastructure in Post Industrial Shenyang, China
De-industrialization is becoming a new challenge for many cities globally. Tiexi District, as one of the oldest and the most significant heavy-industrial areas in China, has experienced the deindustrialization process since ... -
Emotional Infrastructure: Through time, place and disruption, fostering a culture of care in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand
This research examines how everyday environments supported healing, grounding, and emotional re-settling for residents of Christchurch, New Zealand, following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. It uncovers the emotional ... -
Enhancing Legacy | Engaging Process: Phytoremediation at Gas Works Park
This thesis proposes the use of plants to remove hazardous wastes from soil and water, a process known as phytoremediation, as a promising alternative to traditional methods of toxics clean-up. This project focuses ... -
Envisioning a Network for Pollinators in South Seattle
Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths and beetles that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us almost every bite of food. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce most of the natural resources by helping ... -
Ephemeral Design: Capturing Time and Ecological Processes along the Elwha River
(2013-11-14)There are many sites undergoing dramatic change as a result of decommissioned infrastructure and industry, or war and natural disaster. These sites, as degraded and disturbed landscapes, are in a state of dynamic flux ... -
Establishing a Framework for Landscape Narrative Exploration Within Seattle's Pioneer Square Historic District
Landscape narratives have the ability to transport a visitor into the intimate realm of place: kinesthetically, through immersion, or abounding with ethos. This thesis examines the application of landscape narratives as a ... -
Everyday Use of Emergency Spaces: A Park Design for Westport, Washington’s Proposed Vertical Evacuation Structure
This thesis explores the integration of hazard mitigation, placemaking, andresilient design in the small coastal town of Westport, Washington, as it confronts the challenges of preparing for a catastrophic tsunami while ... -
Experiencing the Urban Water Cycle: SR 520 Stormwater Treatment Facility
(2013-02-25)The goal of this thesis is to explore design potentials of a stormwater treatment facility that can serve as a link to involve people in the urban water cycle. The site I examine is the proposed stormwater treatment facility ... -
Exploring Relationships Between Vector-Borne Diseases and Landscape Architecture: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Landscape Architecture
Over half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue The burden on global health has pandemic proportions, over 1 billion cases, and 1 million deaths annually. With ... -
Exploring the Potentials of Interdisciplinary Studios in the University of Washington College of Built Environments
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become a key strategy in the fields of the built environment to understand and address complex environmental and societal issues. The College of Built Environments at the University of ... -
FINDING COMMON GROUND - REIMAGINING A MEMORIAL MULTICULTURAL FOOD FOREST ON PIER 48 IN RESPONSE TO THE HISTORY OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND EXCLUSION IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
This thesis explores a systems thinking approach through speculative and creative storytelling in response to the history of Chinese immigration and exclusion in Seattle. I reimagine an inclusive future where a multicultural ... -
First, Let us Look Together. through forests, trees, wood, and building
Wood construction has grown out of the relationship between people and the landscapes they inhabit. Small diameter timber is a material that was once a key component of vernacular building around the world but is now ... -
Floating Wetlands in the Puget Lowlands: Design, Construction, and Viability
Floating wetlands are rafts that host wetland plants, supporting wildlife habitat and contributing to improved water quality. Floating wetlands have been developed and deployed worldwide to restore wetland structure and ... -
Floodable Urban Landscapes for a Resilient City: Potential for the City of Seattle
As a professional project for Seattle Public Utilities, this thesis explores the potential of the urban landscape to act as an integral component of the water infrastructure system as a climate adaptation strategy that ... -
Fresh Hill Behind: designing activities for learning food
Segregation of local food systems is becoming an issue to be discussed in the United States. Most people are only in touch with the retails and consumption parts of the whole food system. The disconnect with food production ...