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L.I.F.E. Landscape: A Co-created Healing Environment for Vulnerable Maasai Youth
My thesis project focuses on co-creating a design for a children’s home with a school, community center and healing garden for vulnerable Maasai children. The co-creation approach to the design process implies that the ... -
Lake Killarney Partnership: Ecological Planning with Roots in Science and Policy
For thousands of years philosophers have been asking questions about how people interact with the natural world, how our ethical and moral beliefs guide our treatment or mistreatment of the environment, and how we choose ... -
Lan[d]tern: Designing the Transit-Oriented Pedestrian Nightscape
This thesis looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with designing pedestrian routes and public spaces near transit for safe and enjoyable use at nighttime. Since most commuters in northern latitudes spend ... -
Lan[d]tern: Designing the Transit-Oriented Pedestrian Nightscape
This thesis looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with designing pedestrian routes and public spaces near transit for safe and enjoyable use at nighttime. Since most commuters in northern latitudes spend ... -
Lan[d]tern: Designing the Transit-Oriented Pedestrian Nightscape
This thesis looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with designing pedestrian routes and public spaces near transit for safe and enjoyable use at nighttime. Since most commuters in northern latitudes spend ... -
Landmark Refugia: An Urban Bird Sanctuary for the Christchurch, NZ Cathedral Rebuild
The influence of urbanization, climate change, land use changes, land fragmentation and natural disasters have destroyed many birds' natural habitats near cities. However, some birds are attracted to urban landscapes, and ... -
Landscape of Experimentation: Pioneering and Succession on Harbor Island
(2013-07-25)Intensive industrialization has left many cities with a variety of complex site conditions that necessitate innovative responses. Whether post-industrial and derelict or actively functioning under soon-to-be obsolete modes ... -
Leveraging Landscape for Human Health: Retooling the SITES Rating System to Promote Built Landscapes as Health Assets
Our health is sustained, in part, by the built landscapes in which we live our lives. These landscapes—from bus stops to national park systems—influence human health by enabling some activities and discouraging others, by ... -
Liquidated Urbanism: Found Condition and Exploited Conflict
This thesis hypothesizes that large-scale commercial sites throughout the world are well-positioned to be assets for cities and communities in the future. The condition of a large-scale commercial space standing where a ... -
Living in Place: Rebuilding the Relationship between People and Place in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China
This research-based design thesis is an exploration of post-industrial residential district renewal in Chongqing, China. The old residential areas of this city have been gradually replaced by new gated communities with ... -
Making the Invisible Visible: Olympia's Artesian Wells and Public Space Design
(2013-11-14)Once a ubiquitous source of drinking water, today the majority of Olympia's free-flowing artesian wells are all but forgotten. Only a few of more than ninety-six historic wells have not been capped, diverted into the sewer ... -
Marking Risk and Response: Design Interventions to Support Citizen Science Monitoring of the Trans Mountain Pipelines
How can community-based monitoring create much needed visibility and oversight of buried tar sands pipelines that traverse human and non-human communities? The Trans Mountain Pipeline conveys up to 12.6 million gallons of ... -
Minecraft as a Tool for Investing Adolescents in Climate Adaptation: A Case Study in Westport Washington
Adolescents are often neglected or excluded from conversations about community environmental hazard adaptation in part because few community adaptation outreach strategies cater to their demographic. In the last decade, ... -
Moments of Awe: Connecting young children to nature on their daily journeys
Awe is one of the most special, rare, and powerful emotions that we as humans can experience. It is awe that creates the foundation within us from which we can build empathy and care for environmental stewardship. Urbanization, ... -
Native Cultural Design: Exploring Design to Address Historical Trauma and Assist with Village Relocation on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, WA
Native American communities are in need of improvement, which I attribute to historical trauma from the deplorable acts that Native American communities have gone through. Historical trauma creates difficulties for the ... -
Negotiating Ballard's Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail: How Bicycle Infrastructure Can Integrate A Sustainable Design Solution
As cities expand and evolve, urban infrastructure systems must become multifunctional, complementing one another in efficient ways that create synergies and contribute to the resilience and livability of our built environment. ... -
NOURISHING NEIGHBORHOODS CULTIVATING LOCAL FOOD CONNECTIONS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Have you ever walked by fruit trees in your neighborhood and wondered what kind of fruit they were producing and whether you could pick it? By tracing the history of food in Seattle, from the native plants that have long ... -
Oasis of Resilience, Healing and empowering Syrian Children in Za'atari refugee camp
This thesis, Oasis of Resilience, presents the challenges Syrian refugee children faced during the years of war in Syria and continue to face in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Recasting the physical environment as an ... -
On the Edge
Although edges are often dismissed as a simple boundary or fringe aspect of design, their true nature is much more complex and richer. Their power lies in the fact they are neither separators or unifiers, describers of ... -
Our Landscape, Ourselves: Integrating Process and Traditional food Principles for Wellbeing + Resilience in the Swinomish Tribal Community
As the first Native American tribe to create a Climate Adaptation Plan in 2010, the Swinomish Tribal Community in Western Washington have identified their vulnerabilities both in the present day with respect to mental and ...