Murphy, Tori2019-06-192019-06-192019-06-18https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24645101 pages. Examining committee chair: Roxi ThorenEcological restoration is a field that is constantly evolving as we learn more about how much we do not know about our surroundings. This research looks at the potential to co-create with native animals as a way to provide more suitable restoration designs at neglected sites. Co-creation, in this case, is where animal functions contribute to a design that is collaborative, functional and efficient. This research through design approach to ecological restoration is under explored in the field of landscape architecture. Literature provides limited guidance about creating with animal functions like browsing and grazing vegetation. This research develops an evaluative model for precedent analysis to determine a successful approach to co-creation, proposes a typology of animal functions in the Pacific Northwest with potential for co-creation and proposes a design framework that is tested with a case study in Eugene, OR. After determining the seed dispersal function was the most appropriate to address the landscape need of a ruderal meadow, the case study informed a process for phasing prototype perches beginning with an efficient trial phase. Based on animal feedback the next phase of prototypes is refined to have more potential for collaboration. These prototypes must be implemented at the at the right time of year to function for the desired outcome. The arrangement of the design intervention will encourage an intended pattern by animal input at the landscape scale. This method will provide cost effective, suitable and non-human imposed outcomes for neglected sites and an opportunity for people to care about animals and their needs.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USco-creationanimalhumancollaborationfunctionecological restorationTerminal Project