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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...