How to be visionary: lessons from a participatory design process
| dc.contributor.author | MacLeod, Nathan Ellis | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Tate, Alan (Landscape Architecture) Smith, Gordon (Province of Nova Scotia) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Perron, P. Richard (Landscape Architecture) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-06T21:00:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-06T21:00:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Landscape Architecture | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.Arch.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This practicum is an exploration of the role of the “visionary community designer” described by Randolph Hester in his recommended participatory design process “a refrain with a view.” The question of this practicum is simply this: what lessons can be learned about how to function as Hester’s visionary community designer while conducting a participatory design process as a service learning project? This practicum is both pragmatic and transformative in philosophy. It uses a subjectivist research strategy in which research outcomes are qualitative and the knowledge generated is subjective. This practicum includes a case study comparison of seminal approaches to the participatory design of public spaces in the United States; records a brief participatory design process conducted as a service learning research project in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia; and culminates with lessons learned during the participatory design process with regard to acting as Hester’s visionary community designer. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | May 2017 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32195 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Participatory design process | en_US |
| dc.subject | Landscape architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Public space | en_US |
| dc.subject | Trails | en_US |
| dc.subject | Community | en_US |
| dc.subject | Service learning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Halprin | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hester | en_US |
| dc.subject | McNally | en_US |
| dc.title | How to be visionary: lessons from a participatory design process | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |