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Claim, Reclaim, Unclaim: Foregrounding Place-Based Solidarities in the Eco-Cultural Revitalization of a Post-Mining Landscape on the Klamath River
Post-mining landscapes (PMLs) such as Tishánik, located on the Mid-Klamath River in Karuk Aboriginal Territory, are sites of historic and ongoing settler colonial violence. While PMLs are emblematic of extractive relationships ... -
Coastal Forests as a Tsunami Mitigation Measure in Pacific Northwest Coastal Communities
The Pacific Northwest coast has tsunami risk in both non-local and local forms. Most significant is the tsunami risk that comes from the Cascadia subduction zone, and scientists predict that more major seismic events along ... -
Connecting the Drops: managing the effects of climate change on water in Seattle
As climate change affects our water supplies, we must plan for a range of scenarios and delve into the dichotomous condition of a rainy city amid limited potable water supplies. This thesis explores how to reduce potable ... -
Contemplating Sanctuary: Design strategies for contemporary contemplation spaces with cleansing water as a wetland treatment park and urban sanctuary
This design thesis explores contemplative design strategies that engender spiritual communion with place. Sensuous experience of cleansing and temporal water creates a restorative environment. Synthesizing design principles ... -
Creativity, Landscape Design Process, Maury Island Gravel Mine
(2012-09-13)In the summer of 2007, I read a popular top-selling book by a Taiwanese playwright and theater director, Stan Lai (Lai Sheng- Chuan). This book, Lai Sheng-Chuan's Creativity, widened my vision and ignited my desire to ... -
The Cross-Valley Greenway: Making Way for People and Wildlife Across the Duwamish Valley
Land development patterns have fragmented our landscapes, and this has resulted in the loss of connectivity between habitats for both wildlife and humans. Nowhere is this seen more than in the Duwamish Valley where large ... -
Cultivating Contamination: Floating In-Situ
Despite its Superfund designation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the nation’s most toxic hazardous waste sites in 2001, Seattle’s Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) remains polluted, with a legacy of ... -
Cultivating the Campus: Productive Strategies for the University of Washington's Educational Landscape
With the urban population forecasted to continue expanding, simultaneously distancing individuals from the environmental impacts of their consumption, two fundamental priorities are becoming clear: how will we sustainably ... -
Cultivating the Desperation Point: Amplifying the Perceptibility of Climate Resilient Design
Utilizing the psychology of emotional connection and response to art, this thesis aims to amplify climate-resilient site and ecosystem design methods through the use of art - pavilions, exhibits, sculpture, and art ... -
Cultivating the Next Generation of Environmentally-conscious Citizens: Playful Public Education Design Framework
What kind of built environment can we create if we can equally love white storks and blue angel super hornets? How can we acknowledge and respect both the natural world and human aspirations, without compromising the two ... -
Cultivating Urban Nature: Recontextualizing Perceptions of Nature in the Everyday Urban Experience
This thesis explores how perceptions of nature can be cultivated in everyday urban experiences through design. By developing and utilizing the Nature Perception Design Framework based on Rachel and Stephen Kaplan’s Reasonable ... -
Cutting Out: Queer Assemblages for Alternative Design Futures
In this thesis, I argue that queerness is a practice of generative dismantling, which offers a framework for critically transforming conventional design methodologies. By designing queerly rather than designing queer things, ... -
Deconstructing Hydrologies: Reviving the Memory of Water in Dumbarton Oaks Park
This thesis challenges prevailing guidelines for the treatment of cultural landscapes and their inability to fully engage changing human and ecological systems. These issues are powerfully illustrated by Dumbarton Oaks ... -
Desert Child: Unearthing Landscape Narratives to Cultivate Creativity and Connections to Nature
Stories for children are grounded in landscapes. How do stories children listen to and read come alive in the landscape? How can the human connection to story become a tool to improve the child-nature connection? Children ... -
Design Activism Landscape Architecture for Marginalized People and Lands
(2013-11-14)University of Washington ABSTRACT DESIGN ACTIVISM FOR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AND LANDS Ximena A Bustamante Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Julie Johnson Department of Landscape Architecture This ... -
Design Summary : Schematic Design for InterImCDA's Farm & Nature Center Project
(2013-11-14)This report is both a pre-design summary, and site-specific design/build and planning resource, for InterImCDA and their new Farm & Nature Center in the Danny Woo Community Garden, within Seattle's International District. ... -
Design with Diploria: Coral Infrastructure for a New Coastal Future
The growing stressors of global climate change and urbanization have brought about the decline of one of our planet’s most critical biomes - coral reefs. As coral reefs vanish, we lose not only their surrounding ecologies ... -
Designing for Gender Equality in the Developing Context: Developing a Gender-Integrated Design Process to Support Designers' Seeing, Process, and Space Making
(2013-07-25)Focusing on gender equality and women's empowerment has been established as a keystone strategy for addressing all major international development goals. While designers (architects, landscape architects, planners, engineers) ... -
Designing for Health: Investigating Strategies to Create Healthy People, Landscapes and Ecosystems
(2013-11-14)This thesis explores the relationship between health and the built environment and the capacity and challenges faced by the designer to positively affect this relationship. Health is viewed in a holistic sense, understanding ... -
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 ...