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Network 2019 To update your mailing address please contact: Mail Alumni Association Inc. University of Manitoba Unit 200-137 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 5Y3 Email [email protected] Online umanitoba.ca/alumni/ Produced by Faculty of Architecture Text editors Madeleine Dafoe, Lisa Landrum, Brandy O’Reilly Graphic editors Madeleine Dafoe, Erin Rawluk, Brandy O’Reilly + Kim Weise NETWORK 2019 (2018-2019) Facebook and Instagram: @faumanitoba Twitter: @umarchitecture NETWORK is an annual publication of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Environmental Design Program Department of Architecture Department of City Planning Department of Interior Design Department of Landscape Architecture Ph.D. in Design and Planning The Faculty of Architecture aspires to offer widely recognized and highly valued design and planning undergraduate and graduate programs that promote a respectful, collegial, interdisciplinary culture of teaching, scholarship, and service within the University and beyond. NETWORK is circulated to Faculty of Architecture alumni all over the world, and professional and industry firms throughout Western Canada. NETWORK welcomes articles, comments, and information related to issues affecting the design community. 04 Faculty Reports Letter from the Dean • Faculty Research • Environmental Design • Architecture • City Planning • Interior Design • Landscape Architecture • Faculty Announcements 52 74 Connectivity Indigenous Design + Planning C.A.S.T. • Murmurate • Zaagate Garden • Folly Forest: 7 Product Collection Catalouge Years Later • Mikwendam Dawaa • • FABLab • Warming Huts • Northern Teaching Lodges • Sekowe Cooperative Education • Student • ASIN • Sharing Resources for Ambassadors • Warehouse Community Planning • Student Projects • Architecture 2 Gallery 01 24 42 Student Work Partners Program Environmental Design • Architecture Cibinel Architecture Ltd. • • City Planning • Interior Design • Prairie Architects • Landscape Architecture HTFC Planning and Design 92 110 Events / Outreach Awards 2018-2019 Events • Sponsored Lectures Faculty of Architecture Awards • • Atmsophere 2019 • Class of ‘65-’68 Gold Medal Recipient • Reunites • Monument and Spectacle Carl R. Nelson Jr. Teaching Award • Architecture 2 Gallery • Student Meet and Greets • Gold Medal Winner • Year End Exhibition • Faculty of Architecture • Endowment Fund 02 Faculty Reports Jonathan Beddoes, Ph.D., P.Eng Letter from the Dean Arguably in 2018-19 the two most important financial awards. Additionally, through this numbers for the Faculty of Architecture are last year several students have achieved 518 and 160; respectively the total current individual successes that deserve our student enrollment in the Faculty, and the attention and congratulations. Just to number of graduates from Faculty programs name a few individual accomplishments: in 2018. They are important because of Odudu Umoessien received a 2019 everything reported in this Network, none Royal Architectural Institute of Canada of it would have been possible without International Prize Scholarship (one the outstanding students of the Faculty of three across Canada); Master of of Architecture. It is our goal to educate Architecture student Jessica Leon and challenge all of our 518 students, D’Toste was a winner of the international continuously providing them with new student drawing competition ‘Drawing opportunities, so that when they become for the Design Imaginary,’ organized by one of those 160 graduates they are ideally the Association of Collegiate Schools of prepared for whatever pathway their career Architecture; Katie Godfrey and Leah might take. For me, and I believe for all my Komishon were two of five finalists in the Faculty colleagues, the opportunity to work with the outstanding students of the Faculty The drive, motivation of Architecture is the greatest reward of our positions here at the University of Manitoba. and innovation of our students never fails The drive, motivation and innovation of our students never fails to impress. There are a to impress. myriad of ways in which students contribute to our Faculty, from leadership of the many NEXT Student Design competition from student endeavours, through to serving among 900 entries (representing the first on everything from Department/Faculty time that this competition has had two Councils and all the Committees that help finalists from the same institution); and to improve programs, such as the Tech Co-op/I student Bianca Dahlman received Fee Committee, Environmental Design the 2019 Students Leading Sustainability: Program Advisory Committee and many Andy Kesteloo Memorial Project Award, others. Now heading into my fifth year as from the Canada Green Building Council Dean/Interim Dean of the Faculty, I have (CaGBC) and received an honourable worked with four previous Senior Sticks, all mention as the University of Manitoba of whom have made a lasting contribution Co-op Student of the Year. to the well-being of the Faculty, and I look forward this year to working with my fifth It is particularly gratifying to see a Senior Stick. Faculty student receive honourable mention as the Co-op Student of the Year, As reported in this Network, each year the as last year was the first for the Faculty Faculty celebrates at the Annual Awards of Architecture Co-operative Education dinner students receiving scholarships and Integrated Work Program (Co-op/I). This 05 Letter from the Dean new student opportunity placed students Architecture/Engineering Virtual Reality in work terms with twelve employers from Facility in the recently completed Stanley Toronto to Victoria and overseas in Beijing Pauley Engineering Building located and Shanghai during the summer of 2018 immediately adjacent to C.A.S.T. This new and continuing into 2019. Participation in facility has already been used to support our Co-op/I program is growing, twenty Interior Design student projects with students placed with seventeen different impressive results! employers in 2019. All these new opportunities superimposed This last year the new opportunities on our range of strong programs – with all available to students also extended to the our professional programs fully accredited curriculum. The Environmental Design for the maximum time possible – should Preliminary Year program was expanded help to ensure that our 160 graduates to include the course Environmental are well prepared for whatever future Technology with more than 300 students opportunities are presented to them. I am taking this course through the 2018/19 confident that our graduates will make academic year. To improve accessibility worthwhile contributions to their chosen to preliminary year courses, for the careers just as our previous graduates have first time this year the preliminary year done. This last year we were privileged courses History of Culture, Ideas and to have the opportunity to celebrate the the Environment 1 & 2 were offered outstanding contributions of Maria Noziak during summer term with strong student – a graduate of the Master of City Planning enrollment. Also extending curricula program – who received a 2019 University opportunities for students were two of Manitoba Distinguished Alumni Award courses offered jointly with the Faculty for Professional Achievement. of Engineering: an interdisciplinary architecture/engineering design course in Looking forward we will continue to build which students participated in a simulated challenging opportunities for our students. building development process, and a This effort will be aided by two new faculty design-build project involving students members: Dr. Mercedes Garcia-Holguera from multiple programs in the Faculty of who has joined the Department of Architecture and Faculty of Engineering Architecture and Professor Jason Shields in designing and constructing a new feasting the Department of Interior Design both of pavilion in collaboration with the Shoal whom are introduced in this Network 2019. Lake 40 First Nation. With the introduction of these new The new opportunities available to opportunities in our Faculty I look students also extended to facilities as this forward to continuing to see what the last academic year was the first to have the drive, motivation and innovation of our new completely renovated studio spaces students produces in the upcoming and in the Architecture 2 building available, following academic years. Without doubt, but also coming on stream was the joint as in the past it will never fail to impress! 06 Lisa Landrum, Ph.D. Associate Dean Research Faculty of Architecture Research Researchers in the Faculty of Architecture choice. In summer 2019, Lindsay Mamchur Courtney Thompson, advised by Dr. are actively engaged in a variety of projects and Hanna Hendrickson-Rebizant worked Lisa Landrum, passed her Candidacy impacting how the built environment is with Dr. Susan Close on literature reviews Exam and Thesis Proposal in 2018 designed, constructed, experienced and and a website concerning photography and is now researching how certain understood. Our researchers are propelling and the built environment. Kate Sherrin sociocultural strategies in Canada innovation and insight, contributing to worked with Prof. Kamni Gill exploring (including the 1951 Massey Report disciplinary knowledge, and helping society traditional Indigenous knowledge of trees and the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation envision, comprehend and create more through visual documentation and written Commission