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."
Episodes
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Episode 36: Imposters
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. Read more ›
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Episode 35: Tyndall
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 Read more ›
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Episode 34: Graphic
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. Read more ›
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Episode 33: Chochinov
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. Read more ›
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Episode 32: Cornelia
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. Read more ›
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Episode 31: Passive
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. Read more ›
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Episode 30: Half
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. Read more ›
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Episode 29: Bisi
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". Read more ›
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Episode 28: Warehouse
Today's episode, #28, is the final one of the first season of PDL. Don't worry. We'll be back in the fall. Today we explore the impact of 30 years of the student-produced Warehouse Journal, and we offer you the chance to win a copy. Read more ›
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Episode 27: Indigenize
Ten years after setting indigenous achievement as a strategic priority at the University of Manitoba, hear about its impact. Two professors and a student from The Faculty of Architecture are seeing many more indigenous students, more scholarships for them, more activism, and more connections to indigenous communities across the western hemisphere. Read more ›