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Prairie Design Lab (PDL) is a podcast on ideas, design, and culture, in collaboration with journalist Terry MacLeod. Each episode covers a range of conversations centered around local and global perspectives and is produced in conjunction with the lecture series at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Manitoba.
The host, Terry MacLeod, is an independent Emmy-nominated journalist and recipient of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. In his 33 years with CBC, he established himself as a respected, informed, inquisitive, and compassionate presence. He left CBC for new pursuits on Dec 31, 2016. With CBC Winnipeg, he was a host on "Information Radio" and host/producer of "The Weekend Morning Show." In 2005 with Terry hosting, Information Radio was named "The Best Local CBC Radio Program in Canada."
The host, Terry MacLeod, is an independent Emmy-nominated journalist and recipient of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. In his 33 years with CBC, he established himself as a respected, informed, inquisitive, and compassionate presence. He left CBC for new pursuits on Dec 31, 2016. With CBC Winnipeg, he was a host on "Information Radio" and host/producer of "The Weekend Morning Show." In 2005 with Terry hosting, Information Radio was named "The Best Local CBC Radio Program in Canada."
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Today the story of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander of Vancouver — one of the greatest landscape architects of the modern era. The world’s most valuable award in that field is The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architect Prize. We hear the story of her escape from Nazi Germany, her early landscape works in Philadelphia public housing, her stunning park at Expo 67, her innovation at Canada’s National Gallery and the Northwest Territories Legislature, and her pioneering green roofs at Vancouver’s Robson Square and Public Library.
Local architecture to help save the planet. The story of the first commercial building in all of Manitoba to achieve “Passive House Certification.” We go deep with Stantec Winnipeg — the firm tasked with this leading-edge design at Fort Whyte Alive.
According to climate scientists the planet has until 2030 to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half. Winnipeg-born Kelly Alvarez Doran is a world leader on climate-positive design. He describes how to get carbon out of architecture.
Prairie Design Lab returns w/Season 2. In Episode 1 meet Winnipeg-born Bisi Williams — The Chief Insights Officer of the Chicago-based Massive Change Network & the partner of Bruce Mau. Find out why this expansive thinker calls herself “architecture & design adjacent”, a “Prairie chauvinist” & a “Winnipigeon”.
Many students drawn to architecture school imagine working with, or creating, a small firm and having a personal impact designing unique structures. But the reality of architecture is changing. More and more architects choose to work with larger firms and collaborate with diverse multi-skilled teams on long-term projects requiring intense planning, preparation and financing. In Episode 41 we take a deep look at what it takes to do architecture on the “FIRM” scale.
In Prairie Design Lab Episode 40 called “Sets,” Winnipeg film-maker Guy Maddin reveals how he worked with film designer and former architect Rejean Labrie to build his world-famous signature style. Maddin reveals to Terry MacLeod that he relied on “an architecture of shadows,” sound effects, howling winds and using, as Maddin playfully puts it, “every cheap trick in the book.
What does photography have to do with how we see architecture? Plenty according to gifted Winnipeg photographers Jacqueline Young and Lisa Stinner-Kun. They tell us about the tools of their trade including: capturing ultra-deep depth of field, image-sensors, large-format cameras, Photoshop, gigabite-sized files and phase-one backs.
Clayton Salkeld, the founder of the Winnipeg firm “Design-Built”, describes himself and his 18 team members not as architects but as “designers with tool belts”. Most are Environmental Design grads from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. The homes they design and build are defined by timelessness and restraint. We find out how their unique hands-on approach is earning them clients and acclaim.”
Five design teams are competing to be chosen to design a national monument to tell the story of generations of LGBTQ2+ people in Canada who have been persecuted, abused, dismissed and marginalized because of who they desire and how they identify. It will acknowledge discrimination experienced by these communities and the abuse perpetrated by the Canadian state. Bapiiwin is the working title of the Team SOM monument proposal. We explore their design deeply with team members from Winnipeg, New York City and Berlin.
Canadian cities in film impersonating somewhere else. Hear the story from the people who built Canada’s 2121 Venice Biennale Pavilion on site and on Instagram.
Gillis Quarries in Garson, Manitoba is 110 years old but its Tyndall Stone is 450 million years old. Hear how this iconic Manitoba limestone has become the go-to stone to build some of Canada’s signature buildings
This episode explores design through the eyes of three small-scale independent Winnipeg graphic designers. Hear about the daring and innovative diversity of their skills and practices in demand here, and around the world.
Allan Chochinov has a stunning and incredibly diverse definition of what constitutes ‘design’. This former Winnipeger is the chair and Co-founder of The Master of Fine Arts in Products of Design Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. Hear how this innovator is redefining the art and science of design.
Today the story of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander of Vancouver — one of the greatest landscape architects of the modern era. The world’s most valuable award in that field is The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architect Prize. We hear the story of her escape from Nazi Germany, her early landscape works in Philadelphia public housing, her stunning park at Expo 67, her innovation at Canada’s National Gallery and the Northwest Territories Legislature, and her pioneering green roofs at Vancouver’s Robson Square and Public Library.
Local architecture to help save the planet. The story of the first commercial building in all of Manitoba to achieve “Passive House Certification.” We go deep with Stantec Winnipeg — the firm tasked with this leading-edge design at Fort Whyte Alive.
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