GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
Search or browse through research completed by MLA graduates at the University of Manitoba. Our goal is to create a collective research database for all Landscape Architecture programs across Canada.
A growing and connected future: exposing youth to nature through education
Norris, Rebecca
2013-09-10
Our Human connection to the Earth and its living species has become withdrawn from our daily lifestyles and has been taken for granted over the passing years with ever-increasing technological advancements. This so-called technological advancement has provided conveniences, which have pulled people indoors and drawn them to the computer resulting i . . .
Cartography of the factual, actual, and/or imaginary
Synychych, Chelsea
2013-09-10
Amongst other complexities, landscape architecture is a discipline about understanding, expressing, and enhancing relationships between people and the land. This practicum focuses on revealing these relationships through cartographic concepts within self interpretation and interview, with a consciousness towards the biases that are embedded within . . .
Cattails & epinctiéres: filtering the watershed of the Rat River
Neufeld, Justin
2013-09-09
The current state of Lake Winnipeg is a direct result of ninety years of human abuse. Today, this body of water is the most eutrophic lake in the world (Partners for the Saskatchewan River Basin Board, 2009, p. 142). The pollution of Lake Winnipeg has resulted from excessive nutrient loading in the watercourses. Three major contributors to this eut . . .
Re-formed rock: designing waste rock piles for the post production landscape
McKichan, Stephanie
2013-09-09
The natural landscape of western North America is being destroyed in the search for mineral resources. There is an opportunity for Landscape Architecture to play a role in the remediation of these sites, in which alternate reclamation plans can be proposed. This project is an exploration of industrial design in the early stages of a mine proposal. . . .
Campus landscape
Dilts, Dustin
2013-09-09
This body of work began as an exploration of the University of Manitoba’s Southwood Lands (a former eighteen-hole golf course), with the intention of proposing something new for the site. However, analysis and critical thinking led to the realization that there was a need to not only look at the Southwood Lands, but also the entire Fort Garry Campu . . .
Fairway to Greenway: transformation from golf course to a sustainable community in the Seine River corridor
Abolit, Lia Denelle
2013-08-23
The intent of this Practicum is to explore the redevelopment of the Windsor Park Golf Course in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This aim was instigated by the release of an Expression of Interest by the City of Winnipeg in the fall of 2011 to sell a number of its publicly owned golf courses of which Windsor Park was named. The land currently occupied by the go . . .