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University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2

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Faculty of Architecture

FAUM Indigenous Success

The Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (FAUM) has long engaged with Indigenous knowledges, practices and communities, and has taken action to decolonize the design and planning professions. We invite you to travel on our journey: a journey with many paths that may, at times, diverge or converge, but that continue to work towards mutual understanding and collaboration.

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Reconciliation Action Plan

Maamaawi bimi-ayaa (Travelling Together): Building Relationships and Finding Common Ground of Understanding and Truth describes the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (FAUM)’s current work towards truth and reconciliation and identifies next steps for FAUM as a whole, as well as for the departments and programs in FAUM.

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Indigenous Design and Planning Student Association

Indigenous Design and Planning Student Association (IDPSA)

IDPSA serves to maintain, encourage, and promote an enthusiastic and flexible environment for students enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture, while promoting thoughtful representation and assertive engagement of faculty, professionals and the greater community.

Indigenous Success Fund

The Indigenous Success Fund reflects the Faculty of Architecture’s priority to honour Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing with an emphasis on reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities. The fund supports students and faculty to pursue research, learning, and relationship-building opportunities that uphold the principles of Indigenous leadership and land-based learning and strengthen reciprocal partnerships with Indigenous communities through relational practices.

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Forest School

Forest School is an interdisciplinary, land-based approach to design education and research that brings together architecture, engineering, material practice, craft, technology and diverse forms of knowledge. Grounded in relational learning, Forest School engages students, researchers, artists, craftspeople and communities through field-based inquiry, workshops, material investigations and design-build projects. By positioning land as an active participant in the design process, the initiative explores how sustained engagement, making and collaboration can generate new approaches to design, knowledge and place.

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Faculty research

Quality in Canada's Build Environment

FAUM researchers are part of the $2.5M SSHRC-Partnership, “Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability.” Led by the Université de Montreal’s Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence, this partnership brings together 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations to redefine quality while enhancing equity, social value and sustainability.

FAUM researchers include Dr. Shauna Mallory-Hill (PI), Dr. Mercedes Garcia Holguera, Prof. Shawn Bailey, along with Dr. Shirley Thompson (NRI) and Sylvia McAdam (Windsor), in studying “Community-Led Pathways to Affordable and Sustainable First Nation Housing; Participatory Planning, Material Innovation & Post Occupancy Evaluation.”
Community-driven solutions to poverty: challenges and possibilities

The Manitoba Research Alliance’s SSHRC Partnership Grant (2020-2027) asks: how do various systems, structures, contexts, ideas and relations work to perpetuate complex poverty, and what are the steps that must be taken to build the social and political power needed to reduce complex poverty? Poor housing contributes to complex poverty; more and improved housing is foundational in anti-poverty efforts. The housing stream, co-chaired by Dr. Sarah Cooper and Kirsten Bernas (Right to Housing coalition), examines various themes including housing advocacy, Rent Assist (a housing supplement program), housing for Indigenous people, the private rental market, and the privatization of social housing. PI: Dr. John Loxley.
Where there’s smoke

Ryan Gorrie [BFA(Hons)/2004, MArch/2009], an Indigenous Practitioner-in-Residence this past year in UM’s Department of Architecture, explains how the smoke imprints on the fabric and, once you remove the objects, something striking reveals itself. Alum architect ignites introspection among students through unique art form. (2025)
Northern sustainability teaching lodges in remote First Nation communities

This SSHRC-supported Mino Bimaadiziwin Partnership (2018-2023) builds networks and capacity with northern Indigenous communities to address housing and food crises in First Nation reserves. The project is led by Dr. Shirley Thompson (Natural Resources Institute), and involves dozens of interdisciplinary researchers, including Shawn Bailey, Lancelot Coar and Dr. Shauna Mallory-Hill in the Faculty of Architecture, as well as several Manitoba academic and industry partners, and multiple First Nation organizations, including Garden Hill First Nation, Wasagamack First Nation and the Island Lake Tribal Council (ILTC).

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Faculty of Architecture contact

Faculty of Architecture
Room 201 John A. Russell Building
84 Curry Place
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M6

env.design@umanitoba.ca

gradarch@umanitoba.ca

204-474-8769

204-474-7532