Blake Creamer

Performance Park

Responding to a post-industrial, reclaimed waterfront site in Saint John, New Brunswick, Performance Park challenges conventional assessments of landscape performance by proposing a continuum of performative acts of material exchange as a primary mode of design. Phased soft interventions and amenity provisions transform the site into an adaptive testing ground for historical, cultural, and ecological performance. The inquiry-based process of “asking questions physically” through excavation, remediation, and production actively repositions performance goals in relation to an ongoing site-generated dialogue. Continual experimentation and site engagement embraces uncertainty, producing a system of provisional design interventions, as opposed to typical “problem-solving” design solutions.

Advisor: Aisling O’Carroll Winter 2021