Over the course of a year, Woo visited dozens of parks, trails, earthworks, and heritage sites throughout King County. He interviewed more than 40 King County Parks and 4Culture employees, artists, curators, parks users, and community representatives. He facilitated a multi-day focus group and retreat as well as a broadly distributed survey to gather as much input as possible.

The resulting plan takes ecology, land stewardship, and gardening as its central metaphors, imagining ways that agencies can nurture artist and community relationships to the landscape over time. The plan offers five types of “seeds” that can originate new works; each of these is a framework for investment and collaboration that can generate art while nourishing artists, communities, sites, and institutions. They include artist residencies, large and small site-specific works, time-based performances in unique locations, and community-focused art collaborations. Alongside these frameworks, Woo also provides recommended approaches to prioritizing equity and budgeting as well as public art precedents that can inspire future possibilities.

Born in King County, but currently living in Los Angeles, Woo is an artist, civic designer, writer, and educator. He has permanent installations in several California State Parks, the Exploratorium, and the Oakland Museum of California Art. He has exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, Venice Architecture Biennale, Netherlands Architectural Institute, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and various piers, public housing developments, tugboats, shopping malls, and parks throughout North America. He is co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a New York Based non-profit organization dedicated to using art and design to foster civic participation. His book, Street Value, about race and urban retail development, was published by Princeton Architectural Press.