Master of Landscape Architecture student work
Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize
The following is a list of students awarded the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize .
2025
The following is a list of practicums and/or theses submitted for completion of requirements for the degree of Master of Landscape Architecture.
Ferdous, Tasnim
Living with nature: Blending nature-based solutions with integrated eco-tourism to create climate-resilient coastal shoreline
Advisor: Alan Tate
Sayson, Kenworth
Yield: Gardens for Agritourism
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Dicks, Emma
The North, The Land, The Snow Goose: An Interpretive Framework for Goose Creek and Wapusk National Park
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Glowacki, Matthew
Lasting Legacy: Re-Designing Montréal’s 1976 Olympic Park for Future Flexibility in a New Era of Olympic Urbanism
Advisor: Alan Tate
2024
Boskwick, Benjamin
Re-naturalizing the Norquay Channel: A Strategy to Improve Water Quality
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Coverini, Jamie
Liminal Drift: Revealing the Human Hand in Shaping the Untouched Great Lake
Advisor: Jean Trottier
Mahmood, Raazia
Urban Green Spaces in Lahore, Pakistan
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Reimer, Kacie
The Nature of Swimming: An Exploration into the Design of Wild Swimming Pools
Advisor: Alan Tate
Tran, Cindy
It Takes a Village: Rethinking Urban Spaces That Can Help Relieve Symptoms of ADHD in Children
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Yaghoobian, Nazy
Beyond Boundaries-Exploring Game Design as an Environmental Educational Tool: The Whitemouth River Odyssey
Advisor: Kamni Gill
Cantafio, Jordan
Mercury fields relocating sediments for treatment
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Gaudes, Benjamin
The right-of-parkway: redesigning car-centric neighbourhood streets to reduce park inequities in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Leong, Karina
Chinatown: identity revitalization for Winnipeg Chinatown through placemaking and cultural vitality
Advisor: Alan Tate
Peyson, Michaela
Divergence/Convergence: Caribbean Diaspora as Case Study for Advancing Inclusive Community Engagement
Advisor: Leanne Muir
Stovin, Bryce
Stockyards Wetland Park: Filtering the Mission Creek Watershed
Advisor: Alan Tate
Boss, Alex
Seeking Balance: Creating a Climate-Responsive Surface Water Management System in Shannon Creek, Southern Manitoba
Advisor: Frits Van Loon
Friesen-Hughes, Nikolas
Design and Management Ideas for Henteleff Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr
Kashani, Atieh (Yasaman)
Meet with the Water: Stormwater Mitigation on UofM Surface Parking Lots by Repurposing them and Creating Places for People
Advisor: Alan Tate
Mamchur, Lindsay
On the Care of Cottonwood: Tending and Attending to our Sentinel Trees
Advisor: Kamni Gill
2023
Ratte, Naomi
Wendaaji’owin: A Land-Based Approach Seeking to Honour That Which Sustains Life
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Bomback, Aaron
Neglected Landscapes: A Transformative Future for Winnipeg’s Infrastructure Corridors
Advisor: Jean Trottier
Liu, Guanxin
Active Aging in Rural China: A Proposal for Rural Age-Friendly Community in Fujian, China
Advisor: Jean Trottier
Dafoe, Madeleine
Ghost Creeks: Reconnecting with the Lost Waters of Winnipeg
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Laya, Ian
Life Begins in the Garden: Open Spaces and Livable Environments of the Spence Neighbourhood in Winnipeg
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Ouellette, Elise
Designing Dignified Living Conditions for Canada's Migrant Agricultural Workers
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Carl Valdez
Probing the Tides: Exploring the Narratives of a Shifting Coastline
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist
2022
Spiers, Christopher
Hudson Bay Railway: An Eco-Industrial Approach to Arctic Infrastructures
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist
Peters, Matthew
Parasitos: Reimagining a Northern Hydroelectric Landscape
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist
Garcia, Heber
Nostre Parc: Alternative Plan for Dr. Lluch Park in El Cabanyal, Valencia
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Kumar, Kartik
Rethinking Water Drainage in a Prairie Landscape: Seine River Diversion
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
McCudden, Kathryn
Out to Pasture: Exploring Use, Value, and Meaning in Saskatchewan’s Former Public Pastures
Advisor: Karen Wilson-Baptist
McPherson, Evan
Fluid Relations: Reframing Waters on the Edge of the Red River
Advisor: Kamni Gill
Rendeers, Nicole
You can have your Park and eat it, too: Designing a Public Food Forest for a Winnipeg Park
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Singh, Akash
Reconnecting the Kharyog: A Rehabilitation and Management Plan for The Old Town of Leh
Advisor: Alan Tate
Sproule, Christopher
Over My Dead Body: An Exploration of Burial Practices for Tallgrass Prairie Restoration
Advisor: Alan Tate
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
2019
Devabhaktuni, Sujana
River & Communities: alternative scenarios
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Giesbrecht, Meaghan
White picket fences: A typology of suburban neighbourhoods
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist
Hu, Shihan
Winnipeg: speculation of augmented reality in outdoor urban space
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr
Mejia, Orontes
Laguna de Tiscapa: memorializing to envision alternative futures
Advisor: Richard Perron
Pihooja, Katherine
Shifting Shores and Perspectives: Making Room for the Sea and the Storm in False Creek Flats
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Redman, Connor
Rising tides: accommodating sea level rise Squamish, BC
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Sajdak, Darko
Back on track: prevention of chronic disease through the retrofit of Winnipeg’s built environment
Advisor: Alan Tate
Yang, Yiqi
'Weeds' an emerging urban flora
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Zahariuk, Kari
Northern imaginaries: tracing the northern landscape through Canadian culture
Advisor: Richard Perron
Zheng,Yi
Communal urban-scape revisited: redeveloping urban spaces for communities living in the historical district in Beijing, China
Advisor: Karen Wilson Baptist
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
2017
Eidick, Kevin
Redefining Northlands: How natural systems can inform low impact development in Edmonton, Alberta
Advisor: Jean Trottier
Krul, Curtis
Boreal Water: A Floating Carpet and Sub Aquatic Cathedral
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Lysenko, Kaleigh
The science and affect of atmosphere in landscape architecture
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
MacLeod, Nathan
How to be visionary: lessons from a participatory design process
Advisor: Richard Perron
Muirhead, Stephen Link
Terrain vague: curating succession
Advisor: Richard Perron
St Godard, Lesley Dawn
Connecting a pulp and paper company town: Powerview-Pine Falls
Advisor: Brenda Brown
Tang, Vincent
Flowscape: the affective landscape for Toronto's film studio district Studio District
Advisor: Marcella Eaton
Tulloch, Kyla
From black to green to gold: alternative land use strategies for abandoned and decommissioned oil well sites in southeast Saskatchewan
Advisor: Anna Thurmayr
Walker, Katharine Signe
The forgotten forest: exploring private property programs for Oak Bay`s urban forest
Advisor: Jean Trottier
Wang, Bing
Siheyuan - Sheltered places in an extreme prairie climate
Advisor: Dietmar Straub
Watts, Jonathan
Parametric landscapes
Advisor: Jean Trottier
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