FGS - Electronic Theses and Practica

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This collection contains University of Manitoba electronic theses and practica.

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Lasting legacy: re-designing Montréal’s 1976 Olympic Park for future flexibility in a new era of Olympic urbanism
(2025-03-23) Glowacki, Matthew; Trottier, Jean (Landscape Architecture); Valois, Nicole (School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Montréal); Tate, Alan
Lasting Legacy: Re-Designing Montréal’s 1976 Olympic Park for Future Flexibility in a New Era of Olympic Urbanism will examine how a neglected Olympic Park can be re-designed to become an accessible public space that actively engages and connects with its context. Although some consideration for an infrastructural and programmatic legacy was a part of the planning in the years leading up to the 1976 Olympic Games, the burden of delayed construction, political shifts, and impeding controversy over rising costs diverted attention from the park’s future and prevented Montréal from benefiting from a positive legacy. As a consequence, this practicum seeks to demonstrate how proposing to re-host the Olympic Games can serve as a catalyst for re-designing Montréal's Parc Olympique to serve a more favourable and adaptable legacy that's appropriate for its long-term life. This re-design aims to provide a framework for how the spaces that make up Parc Olympique should be restructured and how they should be linked into the surrounding context. As a secondary focus, the re-design will also honour the heritage value of the park through preservation, conservation, and renovation of its original character elements to heighten its position as a Canadian Heritage landscape. As a historically significant landscape, the 1976 Montréal Olympic Park should be preserved by increasing relevance and flexibility in its function as an urban park to establish a lasting legacy for the city. The idea of a new era in Olympic urbanism references new thinking toward re-use and retrofit of existing venues which the current Paris 2024 and LA 2028 editions of the games have adopted and applies this thinking to existing Olympic Parks.
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Enhancing well-being: the role of nature-based features in healthcare environments for stress recovery among military veterans
(2025-03-06) Machum, Lara; Karpan, Cynthia (Interior Design); Reynolds, Kristin (Psychology); Mallory-Hill, Shauna
Each year, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) experiences an alarming increase in the number of military personnel being discharged for medical reasons including orthopedic injuries, operational stress injuries, and mental health disorders such as depression and PTSD. Due to their operational duties, veterans experience higher rates of physical and mental health illnesses. As a result, veterans require more access to healthcare services such as occupational therapists, audiologists, speech pathologists, and therapy counsellors. Complex care requirements create challenges in navigating the healthcare system to receive treatment and successfully transition back into civilian life. These challenges have sometimes discouraged individuals from seeking healthcare and receiving proper medical treatment. The primary purpose of this practicum project is to consider a new approach to interior design that focuses on reducing patient and staff stress in community-based healthcare environments for veterans. It reimagines the traditional institutional feel of healthcare facilities to prioritize patient physical and psychological well-being. It builds upon existing literature and theoretical frameworks for healthcare design. The design investigation includes identifying the barriers to accessing healthcare faced by veterans, analysis of the architectural and spatial guidelines of existing veteran-centered healthcare facilities and determining the potential impact of integrating nature-based features on stress reduction (Nuamah et al., 2021; Totaforti, 2018; Jencks et al., 2015). Interior design strategies informed by Roger Ulrich’s theory of supportive design and Stephen Kellert’s biophilic design are applied to create a veterans' healthcare setting. The resulting redesign of the North Pavilion located on the Deer Lodge Campus in Winnipeg, Manitoba, into a rehabilitation center for military veterans experiencing physical or psychological trauma represents a new approach to providing an accessible, supportive and safe healing environment.
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Adolescent pregnancy in rural communities: a multifunctional support center
(0025-03-03) Archer, Kirsten; Karpan, Cynthia (Interior Design); Nancekivell, Shaylene (Psychology); Roshko , Tijen
This research explores the application of Roger S. Ulrich’s Supportive Design theory to a multi-functional support center for adolescent mothers. Ulrich’s theory posits that well-being is enhanced by environments that reduce stress through factors like control, social support, and positive distractions. The research acknowledges the significant stress faced by adolescent mothers due to unplanned pregnancies, including emotional turmoil, educational uncertainties, and relationship challenges. The proposed support center aims to mitigate these stressors by incorporating key elements of Supportive Design, including: Control: Providing residents with agency over their environment through features like personalized living spaces, adjustable temperature controls and flexible access to various spaces within the center. Social Support: Fostering a sense of community through shared spaces, opportunities for peer interaction and access to supportive services. Positive Distraction: Integrating Biophilic design principles, such as natural light, views of nature, and the incorporation of natural materials, to enhance environment’s calming and restorative qualities. Biophilic design, drawing on the work of Edward O. Wilson and Stephen Kellert, emphasizes the innate human connection to nature. By incorporating natural elements and fostering a connection to the natural world, the center aims to reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance overall well-being for the adolescent mothers. The research emphasizes the crucial role of social support in the lives of adolescent mothers, drawing on theories by Francis Cullen and others. It highlights the link between social support and improved mental health, effective parenting, and better educational and employment outcomes. By integrating Supportive Design principles, incorporating Biophilic design elements, and addressing the critical need for social support, the proposed center aims to create a nurturing and empowering environment that enables adolescent mothers to thrive and break the cycle of poverty and adversity.
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Storied places: decolonizing settler colonial urban landscapes with Indigenous public art in Winnipeg, Treaty One
(2025-03-21) Black, Honoure; Cooper, Sarah (City Planning); Botar, Oliver (School of Art); De Lorenzo, Catherine (Monash University); Wilson Baptist, Karen
Contemporary Indigenous public art can serve as a transformative (re)mapping medium. Through spatial expressions on the land, art can perform as a creative tool that aids in decolonizing the commons, by deconstructing biases, (re)storying histories, and igniting landscape narratives. In Canada, Indigenous public art can also provoke reconciliatory understandings regarding First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous communities and peoples. This dissertation uses mixed methods and methodologies of critical place inquiry to create a decolonial framework for arts-based research that is transdisciplinary and intersectional. Data collection tactics are deployed through a variety of strategies such as ethnography, storywork, and site-writing. Through a feminist lens, I work to be a critically reflexive ethical researcher while asking: How do I continue to confront my position as a White settler female academic in the academy? By weaving together both Indigenous and non-Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, I work to See with Two Eyes through this work. The first of three case studies examines the Métis community of Rooster Town and the public artwork Rooster Town Kettle and Fetching Water, by Ian August. The second investigates The Forks and the artwork Niimaamaa by KC Adams, Jaimie Isaac, and Val Vint, a sacred symbol of women, water, and the Earth that binds Indigenous peoples to the history of this site. The final case study examines the insurgent and resurgent activism of Indigenous temporal public art created through acts of 'counter-monumenting.' Two images of Queen Victoria, George Frampton’s Queen Victoria Statue, and Roland Souliere’s Mediating the Treaties, reveal the history and effects of the IRS system. Indigenous public art has the power to aid in reconciliation, while unsettling dominant hegemonic power structures through spatial expressions on the land. In this research, decolonial methods and methodologies work to dismantle power imbalances by creating intersectional stories of land, peoples, and histories that converge with contemporary interventions of public art in Winnipeg, Treaty One.
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The north, the land, the snow goose: an interpretive framework for Goose Creek and Wapusk National Park
(2025-03-24) Dicks, Emma; Walker, David (Environment and Geography); Schnaars Uvino, Kathleen (University of Jamestown); Eaton, Marcella
The importance of northern landscapes is widely recognized across various disciplines, including climate science, natural history, and landscape architecture. As climate change trends continue, the most immediate and severe effects occur in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The north is important due to its natural resources and as a part of the global climate system. However, northern landscapes are also important for their ecological diversity, cultural significance, and beauty. This practicum explores the northern ecosystems of Wapusk National Park and Churchill, Manitoba, adversely affected by anthropogenic factors, including climate change and the exponential growth of the lesser snow goose population that breeds and nests in the fragile coastal salt marshes and sedge meadows. Over the past 50 years, these vulnerable landscapes have become degraded to the extent that revegetation may take centuries. Protecting, preserving, and presenting endangered and damaged northern landscapes begins with education and awareness, environmental stewardship, and fostering a personal connection to the land.

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