Design practitioners have many expectations placed on their work. While they are striving to meet specific project demands, they are also challenging their ability to create something new and inspired. Often, the relationship between ÒfunctionalÓ and ÒinspiredÓ design options are strained by the realities of time and available resources. Though it is difficult to achieve symbiosis, it is not impossible.
Designers must discover the thing that best enhances their creative process, and design practices must encourage those creative processes in order to achieve viable and innovative design products. Professional landscape architects, as designers with balanced technical and artistic abilities, are positioned to employ artful methods of expression to guide them through conceptual design phases. Art-making could optimize a design process by bridging the creative gap between acceptance of a design problem and development of a design solution.