• LAND CARE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD: The Art of Landscape Maintenance in a Broken World 

  Pierce, Abigail (University of Oregon, 2022-06)

  Landscape maintenance is a largely routinized and long-term process, and these qualities have the tendency to render it invisible. And yet, if we are to sensitively and meaningfully engage landscapes and the ...
• A.R.E.A.M. AGGREGATE RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME: A CRITICAL TOUR OF AN AGGREGATE NETWORK 

  Lorber, Stephen (University of Oregon, 2022-05)

  There are thousands of current and former extraction sites in Oregon. These sites on this tour represent larger themes at play in Oregon’s aggregate extraction network. As we follow a trail of Oregon aggregate, themes are ...
• Tasting Landscape: Expressing sense of place through Idiot's Grace 

  Hensey, Celia (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  Genius loci and terroir are concepts that both relate to how the relationship between people and place is experienced through a personal sensory experience. Viticultural landscapes are working landscapes that also provide ...
• Indigenous Resurgence on the University of Oregon Campus: Reclamation through Relational Landscape Design 

  Graham, Grace (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  This project engages with issues of Indigenous recognition, resurgence, and futurity at the University of Oregon through the lens of landscape design. By applying a relational approach to the design process that is grounded ...
• Large Wood, Long Legacy: Carving Timbers for Regional Environmental Interpretation 

  Vierck, Ian Escher (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  Large Wood, Long Legacy is a series of landscape installations and experiences that explores the role of large wood in different ecosystems in Western Oregon.
• Integrating Urban Acupuncture and the Triple Bottom Line to Revitalize Portland's Downtown Core 

  Rycewicz, Audrey (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  This urban design methodology combines two complementary theories: the Triple Bottom Line framework and Urban Acupuncture. The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) emphasizes equal consideration of social, environmental, and economic ...
• Soaking Up Sea Level Rise: Greenstreet Solutions for Coos Bay 

  Olson, Peter (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  As the most densely populated community on the Oregon Coast, Coos Bay has more infrastructure threatened than any other. Sea level rise projections change quickly, and lately have only been increasing. Currently, the Oregon ...
• Ecological design of an urban meadow informed by contemporary approaches to lower-intensity management 

  Dorkina, Natalie (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  Green spaces are an essential part of the urban environment. They should provide multiple benefits, including enhancing people’s well-being and affording ecological benefits. Rapidly changing economic conditions often ...
• Unearthing Water Efficiency: Clay Pot Irrigation Design Through Digital Fabrication 

  Chapin, Hannah (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  This project explores a vernacular technology in the face of climate change, focusing on the efficiency of buried clay pot irrigation systems. These self-regulating systems reduce water use by 90% and promote plant survival ...
• Regenerative Sport Urbanism 

  Hopen, Delaney (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  An urban design methodology focused on regenerative processes and activity sports bring to the public realm.
• Reworking Evaporation: New Energy Canals for Farms and Fish in Klamath Falls Oregon 

  Gonzalez, Sean (McClean) (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  This project seeks to further explore P.V. over canals specifically in urban contexts. I will begin by giving a more detailed overview of climate, water, and energy within the Klamath Basin, focusing specifically on ...
• Down The Line In Gateway And Beyond 

  Teeler, Daniel (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  “I have used my time and resources through this master’s project to develop a speculative design of a car-free development. My design is intended to be a prospective design grounded in idealism similar to Ebenezer Howard’s ...
• Cohousing to Catalyse Social and Ecological Networks of Reciprocity 

  Hagen-Botbol, Sabina (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  In an effort to live with a deeper sense of community, this design project seeks to explore the concept of cohousing, with the intention to integrate social and ecological reciprocity. In applying the lens of landscape ...
• Biocultural Healing: Relational Methods for Extending Public Health Sovereignty in Eugene, Oregon 

  Witzleben, Jenna (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  This project was completed as a master’s project within the Landscape Architecture department at the University of Oregon from January 2022 to June 2023. In this section, I present the relational methodology, topic ...
• Destination Dam Removal: designing historical narratives into post-industrial landscapes 

  Corl, Carolyn (2021-06-13)

  In recent decades, dam removals on American rivers have accelerated due to environmental concerns for stream ecology coinciding with the obsolescence of dam infrastructure built in the early 20th century. In some ...
• Beyond Salmon: Biocultural Restoration on the Central Oregon Coast 

  Craig, Amanda (2021-06-13)

  In a time of environmental uncertainties, restoration efforts are charged with the complicated task of creating environmental resilience in the wake of issues like climate change, sea-level rise, and the loss of species ...
• Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area: Visual Policy Impact Study 

  Kuebler, Jeffrey (2021-06-13)

  The Columbia River Gorge separates Oregon and Washington along a 75 mile stretch of poignant beauty became a drivable destination in the 1920’s [Willis]. There are key view areas on this route of elevated aesthetic ...
• The Future is Behind Us: Raising Indigenous Knowledge through Multifunctional Urban Agricultural Practices in Honolulu, HI 

  Sambo, Carmela (2021-06-13)

  With the closest port of call approximately 2,400 miles away, the Hawaiian Islands are one of the most geographically isolated and food-import dependent populations in the world. The Hawaiian Islands imports approximately ...
• Algae as Agents 

  Woolverton, Aaron (2021-06-13)

  As a means of understanding landscape phenomenon, responsive modeling establishes a place to concurrently hinge between generating and testing hypotheses while incorporating the expanding agency of computational modeling ...
• Of Playgrounds, Produce and Peace: A Toolkit of Parts for Edible Therapeutic School Gardens and Envisioning Community Hubs 

  Parr, Kristine (2021-06-13)

  The benefit of both urban agriculture and therapeutic gardens are historically acknowledged and legitimized in landscape architecture. In their own ways they seek to address issues of resiliency and quality of life. ...

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