Prairie Design Lab

Have you ever heard of Roost­er Town? Most haven’t. It was a Win­nipeg neigh­bour­hood that was home to 250 Métis peo­ple between 1900 & 1960. That is until the city forced every­one out to make room for the build­ing of Grant Park Shop­ping Cen­tre and High School. Was it racism or urban devel­op­ment, and what were the con­se­quences? Prairie Design Lab takes an in-depth look.

“This is a pho­to of where the Sais fam­i­ly home stood in Roost­er Town. Right where the small white shed stands now beside the PanAm Clin­ic with the PanAm Pool in the back­ground.” — Ter­ry Macleod

“This is the new library from the rear. It is built on land that used to be Roost­er Town at Grant and Cam­bridge.” — Ter­ry Macleod

“The Grant Avenue and Cam­bridge Street cor­ner with the new Bill and Helen Nor­rie Library in Roost­er Town.” — Ter­ry Macleod

Prairie Design Lab takes an in-depth look at how Michael Maltzan Archi­tec­ture beat out 63 oth­er world­wide archi­tec­ture firms to design Win­nipeg’s Inu­it Art Cen­tre — Qua­ma­juq. Jury mem­ber Herb Enns explains. Michael Robert­son of Win­nipeg’s Cib­inel Archi­tec­ture tells us how he brought Maltzan’s incred­i­bly com­plex vision to life by nev­er ​“no”.

Music snip­pet of ​“Inu­usiq” pro­vid­ed by The Jer­ry Cans with permission. 

The world’s biggest col­lec­tion of Inu­it art will soon be dis­played at the brand new Inu­it Art Cen­tre at the Win­nipeg Art Gallery. Twelve years in the mak­ing, we will hear from those who made it hap­pen. This includes WAG CEO Stephen Borys and lead­ing expert on Inu­it art Dr. Heather Iglo­liorte of Nunatsi­avut as well as world-famous archi­tect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles

This was tak­en just out on Eclipse Sound off Pond Inlet at the north­ern tip of Baf­fin Island. We are stand­ing in front of the ice­berg that had got lodged in the sound and spent the win­ter there. We were look­ing to har­vest ici­cles to bring back to the elders at Pond who cher­ished the ancient melt­wa­ter from the ice­bergs — Pho­to and cap­tion by Ter­ry Macleod

A fam­i­ly on their Ski­doo in Pond Inlet on Eclipse Sound. you can see their dog team beside them and their over­turned komatik (wood­en hand­made sled). In the back­ground are the moun­tains of the Bylot Island Migra­to­ry Bird Sanc­tu­ary. Pond Inlet is now known as Qik­iq­taaluk, Nunavut — Pho­to and cap­tion by Ter­ry Macleod

The upside of garbage. Ren­o­vat­ing our aban­doned land­fills to cre­ate new parks is mak­ing a big dif­fer­ence in Win­nipeg. What should we do with 2000 acre Brady Road Land­fill — the only active one in the city? A bril­liant young U of M land­scape archi­tect shares her vision for what Brady Road could become.

A diverse com­mu­ni­ty of immi­grants, refugees, indige­nous and Cana­di­an-born work togeth­er to renew and improve a fail­ing down­town park. One of the world’s lead­ing experts on urban parks ana­lyzes their efforts and out­lines the changes occur­ring in parks from a glob­al perspective.

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Prairie Design Lab presents — Episode 1: Lifecycle