It has long been demonstrated that increased appreciation of place initiates stewardship and
responsible management of the land. Interpretative design possesses the potential to generate this
stewardship through recovering the connections between place and the people that inhabit it. It is
essential that interpretation be integrated into the everyday landscape to deepen one's respect of
the past and one's commitment to its future. This vision of an interpretive trail in Mission, British
Columbia, explores techniques of illuminating place history to inspire and challenge cognitive
participation with the landscape.
The format of this project begins with a discussion of the values and limits of interpretative
methods. Secondly, the study area is introduced through site reconnaissance with special
emphasis on historical morphology and social history. Next, interpretive design strategies are
explored in conjunction with significant landscape precedents, culminating in a design approach
for an interpretive trail on Mission Flats. Six nodes along the trail serve as keystones for this
approach, with individual nodes revealing historical processes, both natural and cultural, through
design.
Akin to Mission Flats, every place is intimately bound to the people and events that have shaped
it. Illumination of this connection is the goal of interpretive design. The planning and design
phases of development are incomplete without the inclusion of this holistic vision of place. It is
therefore imperative that we further explore interpretive design, so that it may be integrated into
the oft-impersonal contemporary landscape, for the generation of authentic place identity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11946 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Middleton, Colette |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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