Choreographing a Greenway: Exploring Experiential Diversity Through Choreographic Dance Principles

Successful parks provide a rich assortment of experiences that stimulate the body, senses, and emotions. Another way to describe this quality is the term experiential diversity. While experiential diversity is rarely addressed explicitly in typical greenway designs, its implementation is vitally important in order to increase engagement and activate space. The Anacostia riverfront in Washington, D.C. suffers from a severe lack of experiential diversity and is redesigned in this thesis to explore how experiential diversity can enhance greenway design using choreographic dance principles. Many dance principles can be applied to design. By approaching park design as a choreographer of dance, a designer can focus on the human experiences –how materiality and the environment influence movement, senses, and emotions. This thesis demonstrates how dance can be successfully translated into the landscape, and how choreographic dance principles are helpful tools for creating a diverse and engaging landscape composition.

Department dc:contributor.department

Plant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA)

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Ren, Jennifer

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ellis, Christopher

Language dc:language.iso

en

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.13016/M2Z60C53N

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:drum.lib.umd.edu:1903/21036