Landscape architecture major Kamerin Creighton named Haas Scholar
Kamerin Creighton (BA 2027) is the first landscape architecture student to win this prestigious fellowship, awarded to only 20 UC Berkeley students annually.
We’re proud to share the news that landscape architecture major Kamerin Creighton has been selected as a 2026–2027 Haas Scholar. The Haas Scholar program supports undergraduate independent research and creative projects through faculty mentorship, seminars and workshops, and a financial award. Students present their work at a program conference in the spring.
Haas Scholars are selected through a competitive process that evaluates the merit and originality of the proposed research project. Creighton’s project, Recalling History Through Heterotopic Space, explores collective historical memory and urban space by focusing on George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. She will conduct her research under the mentorship of Associate Professor Karl Kullman.
About the Project
Recalling History Through Heterotopic Space
At the forefront of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, Black community members of Minneapolis installed an informal memorial at the site of George Floyd’s murder, known as George Floyd Square, honoring those killed by police brutality. Nearly six years later, the memorial remains at the intersection of 38th St. and Chicago Ave. Recently, the city passed a redevelopment project to restore traffic flow around the memorial. Although existing material addresses the sociopolitical impact of George Floyd’s death, there’s no research on how the new redesign plans affect the informal memorial’s established significance. To address this imbalance, my research project asks: how will plans to formalize the surrounding space be implemented without disrupting the memorial’s continuity? Through on-site mapping and interviews, I will examine how the design, materiality, and spatial placement of George Floyd Square reshapes collective historical memory and the urban fabric it’s situated in.