A trauma-informed landscape design process for transitional housing.

  • The Person

  • The People, The Pets, The Plants

  • The Process

  • The Presentation

  • The Problem

  • The Project

  • The Participation

  • The Prompts

  • The Performance

The Person.

The People, Place,

Pets + Plants

Research Sites

"The University of Oregon and Everyone Village are located on Kalapuya ilihi, the traditional Indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon.

Quote Source: (UO Libraries, n.d.)

Today, Kalapuya descendants are primarily citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and they continue to make important contributions to their communities, to the UO, to the lands now known as Oregon, and to the world."

Image Source: (Native Lands Digital, n.d.)

The Process.

The Presentation.

The Problem.

The Project.

Research Questions

  • How can a landscape architecture design process be trauma-informed?

  • In what ways can the designed landscape be trauma-informed to support present and future residents? 

  • How does a relational research model influence the design process?

Shawn Wilson, Research As Ceremony

“And Indigenous paradigm comes from the fundamental belief that knowledge is relational.”

The Participation.

The Prompts.

Decolonizing Ethics

ResearchER Preparation

Research Preparation

Gathering Knowledge

Meaning Making

Giving Back

Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies

“Each value represents a strand in a web and is integrated and interdependent with the other strands.”

The Performance.

How do you envision transforming transitional housing?