Paula Horrigan is a landscape architect whose work as an educator and scholar centers on placemaking and democratic design. She is Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, where she was a leading voice in community-engaged education and research.

For nearly a decade, Paula directed Cornell’s Rust to Green (R2G) Action Research Project, to advance creative placemaking in Utica, NY. A Fellow of both the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), Paula has co-edited influential volumes including Service Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries (New Village Press, 2011) and Community Matters (Routledge, 2014), recipient of the 2015 Environmental Design Research Association Great Places Book Award. Her most recent book co-edited with Thomas Oles, Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture (Routledge, 2024), shares fieldwork stories from landscape practitioners, educators, and artists.

She now lives in Northern Arizona, where she is focused on her art practice (paulahorrigan.com) and a field-based project centering on roads.