Landscape Architecture Master's Projectshttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/104762024-03-29T15:36:39Z2024-03-29T15:36:39ZLAND CARE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD: The Art of Landscape Maintenance in a Broken WorldPierce, Abigailhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/290552023-11-15T08:36:55Z2022-06-01T00:00:00ZLAND CARE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD: The Art of Landscape Maintenance in a Broken World
Pierce, Abigail
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 communities
present therein, an ethics of care for landscape
architecture is essential. To understand land care, and
its importance in this moment, it must be made more
familiar by enhancing its visibility, appeal, and power.
This project explores the concept of a maintenance
artist in residence, as inspired by the work of the
artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Ukeles has been the
maintenance artist in residence with the New York
Sanitation Department for 40+ years. Through empathy
and connection, Ukeles’ socially engaged art practice
lends visibility to the reality, necessity, and creativity of
maintenance work. The guiding question for this project
is: How can the Ukeles model of maintenance artist in
residence be applied within landscapes?
Using the framework of creative practice for this
inquiry opens the possibility of speculative design and
the generative potential of iterative design in relation
to practices of landscape maintenance. Four typologies
of maintenance art are identified through Ukeles’ work:
interaction, performance, documentation, and exhibition.
These typologies are then explored through a researchthrough-
design methodology informed by creative
modes of inquiry as detailed in Karen Lutzky and Sean
Burkholder’s “Curious Methods” and Tim Ingold’s Making.
Studying land care in this way will hopefully lead to
understanding its potential as a socially engaged, multidisciplinary
creative practice serving both the physical and
social infrastructures that require our ongoing attention. A
Maintenance-Artist-in-Residence could act as a living link
between designers, caregivers, and communities, while
increasing visibility and respect for land care, the labor it
involves, and the creative potential it holds.
40 page
2022-06-01T00:00:00ZA.R.E.A.M. AGGREGATE RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME: A CRITICAL TOUR OF AN AGGREGATE NETWORKLorber, Stephenhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/289982023-10-18T07:34:52Z2022-05-01T00:00:00ZA.R.E.A.M. AGGREGATE RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME: A CRITICAL TOUR OF AN AGGREGATE NETWORK
Lorber, Stephen
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 developed that allow this expansive and complex system to become distilled into a conceptual framework.
Aggregates start with the source material, and for Oregon, that material is almost exclusively Basalt or Sand + Gravel. How these materials differ would become apparent as we move through the tour. The aggregate supply chain is relatively simple. Extraction sites most often act as storage and distribution hubs that go directly to development, so it is easily distilled into a line segment with two points – source and destination. It’s an easily self-replicating model of material production. The supply chain is almost relatively short – 90% of aggregate comes from within 35 miles of the project site. In a world of hyper-globalization, where precious minerals cross borders easier than humans, benign aggregate remains local. And with it, the problematic reverberations of extraction can’t be outsourced either.
The supply chain of source to destination is a simple explanation of aggregate extraction, however it doesn’t contain space for memory or projections into the future. Mines are finite - they have skeletons. There are also projections for the next iteration of the segment to begin.
The sites on this tour show sources and destinations, as well as post-use sites and prospective extraction sites. This tour asks the viewer to consider the connection between the rural, exemplified by Oakridge, and the urban, represented by Eugene. As we move between these two regions, it’s important to meditate on who benefits from the sites on this tour and where the aggregate materials eventually flow.
As someone on this tour, it’s also important to be cognizant of how the urban extends itself into the rural – and of how the urban’s extension – done to build its own cultural framework – relates to the shaping of cultural frameworks in rural communities.
We might not own these sites, but these voids, structures, and empty fields are made by us all. As we move through this tour, I ask you to be reflexive - to think about how these sites intertwine with your life, how your dreams of a future necessitate the expansion of this network, and to think about how we can actively shift the processes to better align with how we want to see out world grow.
Project files consist of pdfs of Presentation, Guidebook, Tour narration and Presentation Script.
2022-05-01T00:00:00ZTasting Landscape: Expressing sense of place through Idiot's GraceHensey, Celiahttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/285172023-07-31T23:22:12Z2023-06-01T00:00:00ZTasting Landscape: Expressing sense of place through Idiot's Grace
Hensey, Celia
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 aesthetic, emotional, and sensory value – and the connections between wine and place are a critical component of winemaking culture. Idiot’s Grace winery, a small organic winery in Mosier, OR, provides an opportunity to explore how genius loci and terroir intersect through design. Using case study analysis, the project will compare the form, space, function, and concept of relevant projects to create design guidelines. Following this process, the guidelines will be tested through experimental design and simulation.
57 pages
2023-06-01T00:00:00ZIndigenous Resurgence on the University of Oregon Campus: Reclamation through Relational Landscape DesignGraham, Gracehttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/285162023-07-31T23:14:59Z2023-06-01T00:00:00ZIndigenous Resurgence on the University of Oregon Campus: Reclamation through Relational Landscape Design
Graham, Grace
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 in Indigenous research methods, Grace uncovers the principles at the root of the University’s current campus planning structures and empowers Indigenous community members to reimagine them through their own lived experiences. Through this work, Grace hopes to ignite a larger conversation about the need to center Indigenous knowledge and leadership at institutions of higher education, and across the landscape architecture discipline.
142 pages
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