The unique role of landscape architecture within the allied fields of design, engineering, and planning mediates between human, more-than-human, and land relations. Sites of intervention inexorably become sites of meaning-production. If meaning emerges from these relationships, how then can landscape architecture become spaces that foster such reciprocities? To investigate, we must return to the intimate bodily scale of noticing temporal rhythms and divergent lifeways. Acts of walking and noticing are embodied experiences that have physical, material, and spatial implications. Through encounters on the Vancouver Island Trail, this project seeks to situate movement as a methodology of making and remaking our world, where small acts and humble interventions can be a form of worldbuilding.
Angela Zhang (2026) studied this question.