Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize

2024

The following is a list of practicums and/or theses submitted for completion of requirements for the degree of Master of Landscape Architecture.

2021

Lewicki, Brydget

Drawing Outside the Line: Green Heritage in the Rural – Urban Fringe
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist                   

Noselski, Karissa

Life After Hell: Restoring Hope & Self-sufficiency in Red Deer's Michener North
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr    

Sivagunrunathan, Dilaxshy  

Arsenic + Fools Gold: Portraying a Mined Landscape in Northern Manitoba
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Tremblay, Evan

A Landform-based Approach to Noogenesis
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Vermeulen, Vanessa

Out of Sight: Revealing the Restorative Nature of Northern Manitoba
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist   

2020

Freeman, Robert

Reimagining Strathcona Science Park
Advisor: Marcella Eaton                   

Harper, Janelle

Returning home: indigenous displacement in Manitoba’s Interlake region
Advisor: Marcella Eaton   

Hilder, Jane 

A mosaic of micro-landscapes: Finding a future in environmental education
Advisor: Dietmar Straub

Lentz, Tyera

Roaming the North: A tourism strategy for Northern Alberta’s Peace-Athabasca landscapes
Advisor: Brenda Brown

Lins, Heather

Community to table; envisioning food production in North End Winnipeg
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr   

Magas, Alyssa

Landscapes of avulsion: proposed future ecologies for Canadian Oil Sands reclamation
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist

Renwick, Krista

Landfill to landmark: unearthing the waste[d] potential of an operational disposal site
Advisor: Alan Tate

Sanati Nia, Elmira   

Ruins: the aesthetics of ambiguity
Advisor: Alan Tate   

Sinclair, Emily

River city movement
Advisor: Alan Tate  

Suter, Jessica

Let it rain: Wrocław floodway extension landscape adaptation strategy
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Sveinson, Caila

Several ways to heal: propagating a restorative landscape
Advisor: Brenda Brown

Theriault, Desiree

Red river women: A memorial for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG2S) alongside Winnipeg's Red River
Advisor: Richard Perron

Weng, Shilin

Revisiting plans for the parker lands: A proposal for a more child-friendly transit-oriented development in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist

Yang, Dicong

Redefining waterscapes: in contemporary urban communities in Shanghai, China
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist   

Yi, Jiaqi

A carbon-sequestration landscape primer: adapting neighborhoods to anthropogenic climate change
Advisor: Richard Perron

Yuan, Niya

Living with nature: a study of neighbourhood-based green infrastructure
Advisor: Richard Perron

Zou, Wei

Kunming x Dianchi forming ecological infrastructure through urban water management
Advisor: Richard Perron

2018

Bamburak, Kimberley

Prairie terroir - designing for sustainable viticulture
Advisor: Alan Tate    

Brubacher, Rebekah

Empire we! Alternative community living in rural Manitoba
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr   

Chauhan, Raveena

The Bhopal gas tragedy site : amelioration and the way ahead
Advisor: Brenda Brown    

Coates, Ryan

Region 40: a national park for the Anthropocene epoch
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Cook, Colby

The resilient stampede - a strategy to mitigate the effects of flood-waters at Stampede Park
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

De Mesa, Omar

Peripheral Parkscape; Chief Peguis Trail Extension, Winnipeg
Advisor: Dietmar Straub

Gallagher, Sean  

Bedrock & berries: re-cultivating exhausted calcareous quarries in Rockwood Manitoba Quarries in Rockwood Manitoba
Advisor: Dietmar Straub

Mariash, Kristopher

Pivotal origin: rethinking the ‘heart’ of the Fort Garry Campus
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr  

Sawatzky, Matthew

City climb
Advisor: Brenda Brown    

Woolison, Garth       

Water works
Advisor: Dietmar Straub    

Zhang, Yan 

When painting meets garden design: designing a Chinese garden in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr     

2016

Bul-Llalayao, Carmela

Metropolitan Manila: A Vulnerability Issue
Advisor: Richard Perron

Chen, Yichun

Designing bicycle infrastructure in Nanjing, China
Advisor: Jean Trottier

Choi, Jin  

Doppelpass - Connecting Winnipeg's Stadium with the Fort Garry Campus
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr

Gomes, Evan Michael

The impact of the city on human perception
Advisor: Alan Tate   

Goodman, Krista

Forest not required: an exploration of wilderness identity and experience in Winnipeg
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist   

Grafton, Trevor

A Praxis on Parametric Design; An Exploration of CityEngine as a Tool in the Development of Urban Design Scenarios
Advisor: Richard Perron

Gratton, Roxane  

Disturbance/Intersection
Advisor: Richard Perron

Handkamer, Kevin

Rooted in water: re-connecting the community of Black River First Nation
Advisor: Dietmar Straub   

He, Xuan

Designing for indeterminacy
Advisor: Brenda Brown

Jiang, Kayla

Purifying landscape - wastewater as a catalyst for community gardens in Winnipeg
Advisor: Dietmar Straub

Kirkland, Stephanie

A line through landscape: an exploration of grain elevators in Manitoba
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr           

Lachiver, Blaise

Mapping Digital Landscape Narratives: exploring the use of social media as a passive form of community engagement in landscape architecture - a case study of the Festival du Voyageur
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist 

Loewen, Shannon

Specifying Standards
Advisor: Alan Tate   

MacDonald, Ian 

A Winnipeg constructed wetland: inciting curiosity, facilitating learning and fostering engagement
Advisor: Brenda Brown

Pauls, Meaghan

The ordinary and extraordinary landscape: the relational city in a multicentered Society
Advisor: Richard Perron

Rutledge, Jody

Storing water on the land: the Waffle concept revisited
Advisor: Jean Trottier    

Tustin, Michelle 

Take me to the river: an exploration of bringing the dead home
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist

Workman, Trent

The long now: Re-framing prairie rivers
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Wu, Huijun

Reclaiming home: exploring spatial and social life in residential Winnipeg through the lens of Lilong - housing in Shanghai
Advisor: Dietmar Straub

Yip, Pearl

What's in a non-place? The composition of a travelling experience on Wellington Avenue in Winnipeg
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr

2015

Abdulrehman, Saira

Engineered landscapes: re-thinking sacrificed landscapes in the Canadian Prairies
Advisor: Alan Tate

Birkett, Allison

Nature, health and stress: a research-based approach to stress within our sensorial world
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Bunn, Desiree

The Choreography of Cartography: Disembodied Mappings of an Embodied Landscape
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist

Carey, Marie 

Rethinking the landscapes of learning: the power of place on children's identities
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist

Frank, James  

Ruins in the landscape: the Blue Hospital of Bugojno
Advisor: Dietmar Straub

Hosein, Vincent

Pilgrimage to the Night Sky
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr

Kirouac, Rachelle  

Designing for pedestrians in a landscape of rational fear: Churchill, Manitoba
Advisor: Brenda Brown

Li, Mengyi

Representing the invisibles of landscape: considering an alternative approach to how a designer looks at, analyzes and reads a site
Advisor: Marcella Eaton       

Mirza, Mumtaz

Paradise On Earth: Designing A Socially Sustainable Landscape In Northwest Pakistan
Advisor: Marcella Eaton

Mitrovgeniz, Nefeli 

For the love of ruins: the landscapes that made me
Advisor: Alan Tate   

Pincock, Jori  

Garden variety: the social potential & spatial design of an urban landscape
Advisor: Dietmar Straub   

Urben-Imbeault, Tamara 

Vertical gardening in a northern city; speculations for Winnipeg
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr  

Walkden,  Christina

The place of narrative: a qualitative approach to community engagement in Armstrong, British Columbia, Canada
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist

Watson, Adam

Re(creation): how landscape architecture may remediate Winnipeg's high school athletic facilities
Advisor: Alan Tate

Wilson, Megan

Unravelling horizons
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist