Holt, Whitney2018-08-252018-08-252018-08-25https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23668Examining committee chair: Liska ChanAs communities and demographics shift rapidly in the United States, landscape architects are responsible for creating and curating progressively more urban spaces for increasingly diverse communities. In an era of extreme nationalism and xenophobia designers are confronted with a moral and ethical duty to design spaces that recognize diverse needs and actively foster inclusion. This project explores the capacity of collaborative art-making, a tool from arts education, to engage community and solicit individual’s values and priorities as part of the landscape architecture design process. Currently, there is a dearth of documented methods/strategies for facilitating public engagement ascribed to landscape architecture (LA). LA primarily borrows public engagement methods from Public Planning and many of these strategies elicit specific, concrete desires/wishes, rather than more comprehensive values. Furthermore, these methods don’t consistently address how to engage diverse communities and groups of people and/or how to facilitate activities that foster empathy. Meanwhile, recent studies in arts education maintain that collaborative art-making fosters relationships, strengthens community, reduces marginalization, and promotes inclusion (Hajisoteriou and Agelides 2016). Consequently, this project asks; What are roles for collaborative art making, as a tool for community engagement and inclusion, in the landscape architecture design process of urban public spaces? This project employs two collaborative art-making projects to explore individuals’ perceptions and values regarding the Pioneer and Pioneer Mother, two culturally and historically significant statues situated on the University of Oregon campus. I asked participants for specific feedback pertaining to facilitation, process, and outcomes of the art-making projects in order to further realize the potential values and deficits of collaborative artmaking as a tool for public engagement in landscape architecture practice.Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USCollaborative artLandscape architectureProcessSite analysisPublic engagementCollaborative collageDesigning for diverse usersCommunity engagementTerminal Project