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Abstract
Opportunities abound for landscape architects to include kinetics in their designs and in doing so mitigating all sorts of social and functional issues. Other professions are increasingly using kinetics to provide functional and aesthetic design and works of art in their fields of endeavor. However, landscape architects lag behind. This thesis offers students, educators, and practicing professionals three things: awareness, knowledge, and design tools. This thesis includes a robust literature review, personal kinetic landscape architecture designs, a catalog of kinetic projects, an evaluation of existing kinetic design tools, and concludes with a proposal for two new tools to aid in understanding the complexities of kinetic design. Through the construction of this introductory research, the contours of this new design realm will be generated, proving that kinetic landscape architecture is an accessible new frontier.