Date of Graduation
7-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Landscape Architecture
Advisor/Mentor
Biehle, Scott
Committee Member/Reader
Billig, Noah
Committee Member/Second Reader
Fredrick, David
Abstract
This is a project about how landscape architects approach the landscape in their design process. Indigenous worldviews hold that the world is living and animate in its own right. When we consider stakeholder engagement in this light, the need arises to extend the definition of stakeholders to include the ecological communities of place – the flora, fauna, soils, and other non-human elements of place. To gather that input, I experimented with techniques to access a greater awareness of ecological community at two sites with different levels of urbanity and types of land management practices. This experimental approach was surprisingly successful in initiating a new sensitivity to the activities and processes of ecological community that suggest adding a phase of site sensing to the landscape design process. These experiments yielded more questions than answers yet offer much potential for further exploration
Keywords
community engagement, landscape architecture design process, relational self, stakeholder engagement, indigenous ways of knowing, awareness opening
Citation
Adkisson, H. (2021). Consulting Place As Stakeholder: Accessing the Input of Ecological Community. Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/larcuht/12
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