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, she 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), Horrigan has co-edited influential volumes including Service Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries (New Village Press, 2011) and Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning (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: Methods, Actions, Tools (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.