50:50 Charette – Students and Alumni collaborate on vision for a future Halifax

The highpoint of the three-day celebration was the 50:50 Charette – named in

honour of our Faculty’s 50th anniversary and looking forward to the impact of architecture and planning 50 years in the future. This event was an unprecedented opportunity for all of our students to work with alumni, practitioners, and community members in an all-day workshop which challenged teams to imagine what Halifax could be like in 2061. Focusing on six key themes – accessibility, landmark districts, green belts, vibrant urban neighborhoods, the waterfront, and ‘zero net energy’ cities –

team leaders guided their group through the phases of exploration, concept, design and presentation. The charette teams ‘occupied’ the building for the day, taking over the architecture and planning studios and using the resources available to students in their course of studies.

“It was inspiring to see where the students’ heads are,” reflects Jennifer Corson, who was involved in the planning of the event and served as a observer

through the day. “Exploring creativity not affected by red tape, bureaucracy, or lack of resources was an exciting prospect. It was most interesting to see experienced architects taking on a supportive role to students, supporting their designs and ideas by cranking out visuals and materials in response to their concepts.”

Students received first-hand exposure to design professionals polished in their skills, and professionals had a chance to imagine the future through the students’ perspective. “It was interesting to see how things have changed since we were

A R C H P L A N

This past fall we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of

the School of Architecture with a three-day event centered around Dalhousie’s homecoming weekend.The kick-off event, Capital Conversations: Capital Planning in Ottawa and Halifax was co-hosted by the National Capital Commission (NCC) as part of their nation-wide consultation process as they embark on their 50-Year Plan for the Capital Region. This was the first time the NCC has gone outside of Ottawa to ask Canadians what the Capital means to them. Director Marie LeMay was joined by André Préfontaine of the Canadian

Geographic Society, in opening the event and explaining their hopes for it.

In his keynote address, Prataap Patrose, Director of Urban Design for the Boston Redevelopment Authority shared his views on the importance of socially responsible environmental design. Three panelists took up the challenge, with Reverend Rhonda Britton from Cornwallis Street Baptist Church saying the Capital should recognize the contributions of all Canadians. Andy Fillmore, Senior Planner with HRM by Design, argued that Ottawa could – and should – be a model of sustainability for other Canadian cities.

Planning Professor Frank Palermo made a case for pilot projects to test out concepts and change people’s perceptions in creating great people places. Dean Macy moderated, as the audience joined in with their aspirations for Canada’s capital. Architecture and planning students and alumni filled the hall of Pier 21, sharing their views on what Ottawa means to them, how Canadians should be represented in the capital region, and how to make a government town feel lively. The NCC was delighted with the student contribution to the event.

Capital Conversations – Ottawa and Halifax confer on expectations

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Pictured above: 50:50 Charette pinup and discussion

“It was inspiring to see where the students’ heads are”

50:50 Charette (continued from page 1)in school,” says Jennifer. “Technology has dramatically impacted the availability of resource material, changing the process of a design education. It was great to be able to witness this first hand.” Professionals from HRM’s planning team, many of who participated in groups, were inspired by the ideas and concepts developed by fresh young minds. To the question “Why can’t we do this in Halifax?,” the answer more often than not was, “There is no reason why not!” Teams spent the day working on their concepts in the Medjuck Building, breaking only to refuel at the event’s sponsored meals. Most groups finished early in the evening, reconvening the next day for a pin up lunch. Those who worked into the night however, had a chance to experience for themselves the legendary midnight scream, led by Jennifer Corson.

The next day, passionate advocates of Halifax John Crace (WHW), Andy Fillmore (HRM Planning), and Susan Sirs (Outside!), pitched in to serve as a jury, recognizing winners in several categories. Inspiring, creative, fun, engaging, and perhaps even change-inspiring, this event will surely be remembered long into the future. Thank you to our generous sponsors: Marco, Truefoam, Armco, Shaw, the NSAA and Wade Atlantic. Please see our website for photos and details of the projects.

50th Anniversary Events

50th Anniversary Alumni ExhibitThe final event of the series was an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the School of Architecture. The exhibit showcased the accomplishments and history of the School since its creation in 1961. Alumni sent in their photos and yearbooks and we dug deep into our archives. The result was overwhelming. How would we fit this into our small faculty gallery? We tailored it down to four elements:

- Colourful posters depicting student life, faculty work, and shared experiences over five decades covered the walls; - A timeline of key dates and people in the life of the school wrapped the mezzanine; - An enormous Dymaxion map on the

central table showed our Faculty had been playing the ‘World Game’ before it was invented by Buckminster Fuller. Co-op employers, field trips, free lab sites, faculty work and exchange programs were all located and flagged on this map, revealing that our students, faculty, and alumni have touched almost every corner of the world. And it was participatory. - And lastly, oral histories were created for this occasion by sound artist Lis van Berkel. “The oral histories add another

dimension to the exhibit,” remarks Dean Macy. “They bring us face to face with the experiences from the past, as people reach into their memories to allow us to experience it all over again.”

Ernesto Armentaros, Ernest Clarke, Tony Cook, Peter MacDougall, and Jamie Wright talk about the first decade when the school felt like an experiment – you knew your professors really well and it was a dynamic place – a school with a hands-on Maritime personality. Doug Pitcairn explains some technical paraphernalia – like the ‘acoustic flashlight’ and the ‘comfy meter.’ Former Professor Larry Richards reflects on the school’s technical orientation under Peter Manning and remembers the field trip to Communist China. Alumna Jill Bambury and Instructor Stephanie White discuss the student strike and the avalanche of teaching, while former Dean Essy Baniassad reflects on ‘gathering places’ and remembers ‘a monastic air’ at TUNS. Alumni Ishmael Mosanyi and Patricia Cuttall touch on Architecture’s connection to Botswana and Planning’s strong connection with the province.

To see pictures of the exhibition and listen to the oral histories, please visit our alumni page: http://archplan.dal.ca/alumni/index.shtml

Presentation of student charettes

Architecture studio in the 1970s

Planning faculty and students in 1988

Architecture class of 1962

Essy Baniassad, 1992

The computerized fabrication lab, 2005

Happy 50th! The past may be a nice place to visit. But I wouldn’t want to

dwell there – in the past that is. I’m happy to be here, in the now, and I’m optimistic for the future. Speaking of the future, we’re here to celebrate our School’s 50th birthday. 50 years old. 50 years isn’t a long time, but a lot of stuff happens in 50 years. I’ve been here for three quarters of that time, and believe you me, a lot has happened.

For example, for many of those years including my first seven or eight in Halifax, it claimed to be a School – but it wasn’t, not really, not yet. How could it be? We all knew it. But we conspired in the ruse that because it had the name ‘School’, a curriculum and courses, a faculty, and even a student body, it was what it said it was. It had an authoritative voice. But it wasn’t its own voice, it was that of its administration.

In the early days the curriculum was fixed. There were no elective courses, no free-labs, no extramurals, no theses. There were no modules, no international exchange programs. And in the very early days, we had neither a co-op program nor a planning program. The teaching faculty was all male and the student body included precious few females. It was a small world of grays and white and an occasional swatch of something else. Teaching was more about telling than questioning and thinking. Learning was a largely passive game: we pitched, the students caught – or not. If I exaggerate, it’s not by much.

It was pretty dull until the lid came off – which it did with a bang. The doors blew open. The world flooded in. More to the point, we rushed out. Over time and more or less together we became a School, with a point of view, an attitude,

and a distinctive voice to go with it. Of course, this had little to do with birthdays or anniversaries and more to do with the gentle and not-so-gentle passage of time. I daresay we were a School long before Toronto woke up to our presence. So what! Who’d give a fig for Toronto!

And what of its voice? Well, look around you. What do you see? Hear? I see and hear many voices – every once in a while a massed choir (like yesterday and today), sometimes a small group, frequently – a wonderful solo effort. Remarkably, there is pattern and purpose to all that sound, colour and movement. Individual voices soar against a full-bodied melody. If you listen you can hear the voices of our

students, faculty and staff. Everyone is both a learner and a teacher. Intellectual inquiry is our songbook and most of the time, we’re on the same page.

Now and again, when we really work at it, we treat our School as something of a shared responsibility. It’s at such times that through the quality of our individual and collective efforts we achieve a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Not always the case, but when we’ve been

Grant Wanzell delivers his Anniversary Message

at our strongest, it’s been where several contributions have added up. As we all know, ‘Schools’ are works-in-progress.

So what of our own recent history? Well, have another look around. There’s a lot happening. So much to take in that it defies ‘managing.’ We attract good people – students, staff and faculty. We encourage them to take risks and learn by doing. We support them when they trip and when they’re flying we try not to get in the way. But doubts linger. We’re frantically busy but what does it mean? ‘There’s much to learn and little to teach,’ as Essy Baniassad is still fond of saying. So is it possible that all that’s needed is a nudge in the right direction? Perhaps. But that supposes a lightness of touch that’s almost magical. So here we are at 50 in the midst of becoming another kind of School.

How so? Well, we won’t be ‘managed’ – it’s far too late for that. And we continue to reject ‘leadership-by-ego’. It seems we’re opting for a kind of School-by-consensus in which all will have an active share for the well-being of its voice as well as its soul. Not an easy thing. Small, nimble steps, and even greater self-discipline. A learning process in its own right. Each pursuing his own interests with style and drive, simultaneously mindful of, needing, and respectful of the others. Each with an eye to her out-rider colleagues, the other to the balance required by accreditation. ‘Neither one nor the other, but both.’

Thus, it would be a self-regulating School of many parts and voices, each exceptional in its own right. The remarkable whole they would comprise would be greater by far, than their sum. Most definitely not an easy thing. But if you managed to get there, it would be a spectacular outcome. Happy 50th!

Fifty Years of Progressive Change – An Anniversary Message from Grant Wanzel

“It was pretty dull until the lid came off – which it did with a bang”

Comings and Goings

Richard Kroeker In 2010 with the departure of Terrance Galvin, the School of Architecture was left without a Director. Stepping in with willingness and his characteristic warmth was Richard Kroeker. With 21 years of experience at the School as a professor, researcher and designer, Richard provided valuable leadership in a time of change. Although looking forward to a sabbatical this summer, he is still working on administration this term, helping the new Director Diogo Burnay during his transition.

During his two years as Acting Director, Richard’s first priority has been, as always, the students. Under Richard’s leadership, the ASA has assumed a more active role in student orientation. He has been an effective advocate to ensure the university continues to provide adequate teaching resources. He has been working towards success in the School’s next accreditation visit. Always inclusive, he lets everyone at the School know that he values their input.

With his prodigious energy, he also carried a full teaching load, including a summer studio in Botswana, B5 Design and B5 BSI. And he has been travelling. He spoke about his Pictou Landing project at the European Centre for Architecture in Madrid and was featured in Penser Tout Haut (Making of Architecture), a traveling exhibition curated by Austrian critic Elke Krasny, which opened in Montreal. Working with NSCAD artist Neil Forrest, he designed and built a warming hut on Winnipeg’s Assiniboine River. His guest lecture and workshop schedule has included SUNY Buffalo, Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, the University of Graz, Austria, and the University of Illinois. Despite this impressive resume, Richard always made time for the students, faculty and staff of the School of Architecture. We want to say thank you for a job well done!

Susan Guppy After four eventful years, Dr. Susan Guppy’s term as Director of the School of Planning will come to a close at the end of June, when she retires from Dalhousie. These years have been a time of growth and consolidation for the School. Under Susan’s tenure, the Bachelor of Community Design reached its full capacity – now enrolling approximately 55 students a year. An exciting initiative developed with the College of Sustainability allows students to do a double major in community design and sustainability. The BCD honours program expanded to include 25 students. And the masters program continues to thrive, attracting highly qualified students from across Canada and beyond. With Susan at its head, the School hired new faculty members Eric Rapaport and Ahsan Habib, bringing new energy and inspiration to the School. The School is now conducting an external search for a new director. In sum, Susan leaves us in an optimistic position.

Susan led the School with quiet but sunny determination, helping us make decisions in challenging economic times. Her willingness to do what needed to be done, while challenging us to find ways to make processes and tasks more manageable has helped the School make strategic decisions for the future. Susan’s connections to Dalhousie go way back. She worked in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies for several years before earning her architecture degree at Columbia University in New York, after which she worked with colleagues at NSCAD teaching environmental planning. In 1993, she joined TUNS as a professor of planning. Her multi-disciplinary education and multi-institutional teaching experience made her an effective champion to build planning education at Dalhousie over the last four years. We’ll miss her at the helm, but wish her a happy retirement.

Diogo Burnay The Faculty of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce the appointment of Diogo Burnay as Director of the School of Architecture as of January 1st, 2012. Diogo comes to the School having earned a diploma in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal and a MSc in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, England. Diogo has been a registered architect in Portugal since 1989, working with Maria Manuel Godinho de Almeida and Duarte Cabral de Mello in Lisbon, the Building Design Partnership in London, Manuel Vicente and OBS Arquitectos in Macau.

In 1999, he founded the award winning practice CVDB Arquitectos in Lisbon with his partner Cristina Verissimo. Their work focuses on the relation between architecture and the public realm and the individual’s perceptions of spaces and places. Projects run the gamut from urban design to new buildings, from the rehabilitation of heritage buildings to interior architecture and ephemeral structures. Their designs have been exhibited and published internationally and have received many awards.

Diogo has taught architecture at the University of Hong Kong, the Technical University of Lisbon, the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas at Arlington, and PARQ-EUVG. He is also an external examiner at the Bartlett in London. “Diogo brings with him energy and a fresh perspective from his diverse background that will enhance the School and inspire the students,” comments Dean Christine Macy – “these are exciting times for Dalhousie’s School of Architecture.” Diogo is looking forward to the opportunity to meet alumni and the architecture community and to exploring the synergies between the School and the profession worldwide.

1977 – John Devlin, BEDSWe are delighted to announce the publication of

John’s book Nova Cantabrigiensis by London-based

Island Edition. The eponymous utopian island in

the middle of the Minas Basin is John’s invention,

designed to recreate the atmosphere and architecture

of Cambridge, England, which he considers to be the

perfect city. The full colour book reproduces thirty of

his illustrations at original size, accompanied by an

essay that offers insight into John’s mathematical

and spiritual theories about architecture.

1989 – Peter Yeadon, MArchFPPeter continues to run his successful design practice,

Decker Yeadon Architects, with partner Martina

Decker. Both Peter and Martina have been active as

guest critics and speakers and have had their work

featured in numerous international publications.

They continue to serve both the academic and

industrial markets with their innovative work and

groundbreaking research. They invite interested

parties to view the latest news of their firm at:

www.deckeryeadon.com/news.html

1997 – Vincent Nugroho, BEDSVincent was invited to lecture on “Temples of

Angkor Ruins: a photo essay on Angkorian Art &

Architecture,” in the Chinese Studies Speakers Series

run by Dalhousie’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

1999 – Robert Billard, MArchFPRobert Billard, MAIBC, AAA, MRAIC, LEED AP, has

been offered a contract in Chandigarh, India. Set

within the planned city designed by Le Corbusier from

1948-1950, Robert will head up a team of architects

designing a 660-acre development of residential

towers, malls, hotels, office buildings and industrial

complexes in the suburban township of Mohali.

Robert has spent much of his career studying and

working with diverse cultures and learning from them

to inform the architecture. During this time Billard

Architecture Inc. will be put on hold. Robert is setting

up a blog of his experiences and hopes you will keep

in touch.

1999 – Susan Fitzgerald, MArchFPAs the winners of Canada Council’s Professional

Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2011, Susan and

her partner Brainard Fitzgerald will use the award

to pursue their research in the Productive Urban

Landscape. The research will study the environmental,

health, economic and social benefits of integrating

agriculture and green spaces with towns and cities,

focusing on case studies past and present in Cuba,

Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Panama and Chile.

2000 – Jamie Spinney, MURPCongratulations to Jamie who recently graduated with

a PhD in Geography from McMaster University.

2002 – Aneirin Smith, MArchFP; Nova Tayona, MArchFPAneirin and Nova are the proud parents of a new baby

boy. Loewen Gabriel Tayona arrived midday June 25,

2011 and weighed in at 7 lbs 8 oz.

2005 – Omar Gandhi, MArchFPOmar and collaborator Deborah Herman-Spartinelli

were congratulated by the Nova Scotia House of

Assembly for their Liverpool project, Cedar in Three

Textures. The project marries century-old Nova Scotian

architecture with contemporary design and function

in a family home, incorporating sustainable features

such as solar panels, weathertight foam insulation

and high-efficiency boilers.

2005 – Stephanie Davidson, MArchStephanie and Georg Rafailidis have been invited to

participate in the International Architecture Festival

Eme 3 in Barcelona from July 1-3, 2012. Founded in

1999 by the cultural association ADN, this event is a

market for avant-garde architecture. Stephanie and

Georg will exhibit their project Selective Insulation,

present a lecture on their work and take part in a

debate about “sustainability vs. greenwashing”.

eme3.org/index.php?/eme32011/participants2011

In Memoriam2005 – Kutobe Tshabang, MArchFPKutobe, who went by his nickname KT, died on May

16, 2011 in Gaborone, Botswana. He was diagnosed

with lung cancer earlier in the year and against all

hope and efforts, his health deteriorated and he

passed away. KT was working at Botswana Housing

Corporation in Gaborone. His colleagues reminisce

that he was a pleasure to work with and he will be

dearly missed.

Former Planning secretary Dorothy Leslie’s husband,

John Aubrey Leslie, passed away suddenly on October

11, 2011 at the age of 74. Self-employed as a

consulting geologist in Halifax for most of his career,

John is survived by Dorothy, daughter Heather, sons

Greg and Kirk, and four beloved grandchildren. Our

condolences go out to Dorothy and her family.

Architecture• Architects’ Association of New Brunswick Scholarship ($1,000) : Miranda Bailey• Highbury Foundation Bursary ($2,500) : Olive Luo, Kevin Khou• Barry & Margo Johns Family Bursary ($1,000) / Stephan Gingras• Barry Johns Scholarship for Design ($1,000) : Miranda Bailey• Keystone Bursary ($1,569) : Alisha Maloney• Keystone Bursary ($1,000) : Tara McLaughlin, Chris Bouey, Matt Jones, Kenneth Leung• Harry Kitz Fund ($1,500) : Michelle McKenna, Nuala O’Donnell, Naryn Davar, Stefan Gingras, Brad Tapson, Mark Whalen• William P. Lydon Memorial Scholarship ($1,300) : Manjula Singh• Maritime Hobbies & Crafts Bursary ($500) : Will Green• Medjuck Architectural Design Scholarship ($2,900) : Laura Gilmore• Newfoundland Association of Architects / William J. Ryan Scholarship ($2,000) : Luanne Dominix• Nova Scotia Association of Architects / Ojars Biskaps Award ($1,000) : Hannah Newton• William Nycum & Associattes Scholarship ($1,000) : Stefan Gingras• George W. Rogers Award ($1,600) : Gavin Schaefer• Shaw Group Environmental Design Scholarship ($2,500) : Will Perkins• Steel Structures Education Foundation Scholarship ($3,000) : David Tyl• John D. Watson Memorial Scholarship ($2,500) : Holly Simon

Planning• API Student Award ($1,000) : Michaela Cochran, Neil Lovitt• CIP Awards : Lynn Roxburgh, Christina Townsend• Floyd Dykeman Prize in Rural Planning : Zoe Wollenberg• Peter Klynstra Scholarship ($1,000) : David Verbeek• George Lawen Scholarship ($5,000) : Heidi Craswell• NS Planning Directors Award ($500) : Zoe Wollenberg• Stanfield Scholarship ($2,000) : Christopher Hardy

Scholarships and Prizes

Alumni

Student News

Free Lab – Working with the Chapel Island First Nations Community

Last May a group of ten students and four coordinators from the Cities and

Environment Unit (CEU) worked with the Band Council and community members from Chapel Island in Cape Breton to develop a design for a recreational storage facility for the community’s high school outdoor education program. During the summer-long construction, our students had the opportunity to mentor Mi’kmaq high school students working with them. “We’re able to build it with them and teach them a little about construction and things like that,” said Kate MacKay, a community planner with the CEU, adding, “they’ve been teaching us as well”. Along with an introduction to Mi’kmaq culture and traditions, “the community members here have been fantastic about taking us to Chapel Island, showing us dancing, taking us sweetgrass picking.”

The storage facility is the first phase of a larger project to build a longhouse for Mi’kmaq youth on the island. Local Seth Doucette was impressed to see Dalhousie students properly using hammers, saws, screws and nails. “We found out a lot

of them have construction experience,” said the student council president of the high school, who is one of nine Mi’kmaq youth assisting in the project. For him, the experience was a team-building exercise, with Dalhousie students demonstrating design and construction skills and the Mi’kmaq high school students teaching the history of their First Nation. “We walked around the whole island. I took

them to see our monument. We took them biking. They’re so full of questions. We don’t have all the answers for them but we try our best,” Doucette said. “With this free lab we actually have a group we can become friends with and try to teach, and they teach us as well,” reflected Duncan Patterson, who has been involved in other First Nations projects. (Adapted with permission from the Cape Breton Post)

Free Lab students worked with the Band Council to develop a storage facility for the high school’s outdoor education program

Students enter World Architecture Interiors and Furniture Competition

Inspired by the cold nights in the South African townships and Botswana, Dal

students designed, built, and submitted an entry for the recent World Architecture Interiors and Furniture competition. The Solar Lounger is a solar heated thermal chair and bed. For thousands of years the Basarwa tribe in Botswana have cooled themselves by resting in shallow holes dug in the sand. The sand pulls the heat from their bodies providing relief from the sun. At night, they light a fire in the sand and stay warm by sleeping where the sand has absorbed the heat, benefiting from the thermal mass. The thermal chair and bed use simple, inexpensive materials: a garden hose, recycled soda cans and reflective snack bags, wood framing, twine and sand. Direct sunlight heats the water in the hose and the heat is absorbed by the sand above. At night the solar collector

is brought indoors and reversed with the thermal mass placed downward forming a heat-radiating back rest or bed. During the hottest period of the summer the process is reversed; the collector is placed outdoors at night and brought indoors

solar collection transport sit sleeplounge

heat collecting heat radiating

during the day to provide passive cooling. The competition entry design can be seen on the World Architecture News website at http//:www.worldarchitecturenews.com/interiors/index.php?fuseaction=product.productview&pdid=288

Berkeley Prize Once again, Holly Simon has received a Berkeley Prize. Her essay “Museum of Music Moves a City” took First Place in the 2011 Competition on the theme of Valuing the Sacred. Students were asked to write about unusual spaces they would consider sacred, and Holly selected the Museum of Music in Calgary. This international prize for undergraduate students was established to promote architecture as a social art through research, writing, and criticism, all of which are traditionally under-represented in architectural education. Students from 21 countries submitted entries. Read Holly’s essay at http://www.berkeleyprize.org/competition/essay/2011/winning-essays

Innovation in wood Last Fall, the Canadian Wood Council selected MArch student Sam Lock as the recipient of the 2011 Catherine Lalonde Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a graduate student from a Canadian university for academic excellence and involvement in a research project with lasting positive influence on the wood products industry. This year, the competition

was fierce, with eleven applications from universities across Canada. Sam received the scholarship at the Ontario Wood WORKS! Awards Gala in Toronto on November 3, in front of 500 architects, engineers and builders representing design and construction firms from across Ontario. Sam’s project was recognized for its innovation in wood building technology

using green wood in lightweight grid shell design and for its multidisciplinary approach encompassing architecture, material properties, economics and ecology.

Students featured in Twenty+ChangFive MArch students – Clayton Blackman, Andrew Choptiany, Mark Erickson, Matt Kennedy and Sam Lock – founded the Idea Tank Design collective, earning themselves a position in this year’s Twenty+Change exhibition. Group members bring skills in construction, graphic design, photography and fine art to their shared passion for craft and design in architecture. They are

also deeply committed to collaboration, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability, saying “our work always strives to have a positive impact in the lives of those who experience it, while maintaining an uplifting beauty using local, durable and sustainable materials”. Twenty+Change is a biennial exhibition and catalogue of emerging Canadian designers who are pushing the boundaries of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. The public opening took place September 30 at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. Please see http://twentyandchange.org/

CEU receives Award of ExcellenceThe Cities & Environment Unit is pleased to be the recipient of the 2011 Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Excellence in the category of Social Planning. The award recognizes the CEU’s “Approach to Change” which extends the principles of community-based planning through project development and implementation in a way that empowers communities to maximize the benefits of every project. The submission, entitled “Community Plan Design Build: An Approach to Change,” highlights four community-based, project-driven and locally

focused initiatives undertaken with First Nations communities in Saskatchewan (Flying Dust First Nation, Kahkewistahaw First Nation, Kinistin Saulteaux Nation and Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation). The award was presented in July at the 2011 CIP/API Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

2011 Parade of LightsThis past fall, over 100,000 Haligonians watched our students do it again – another spectacular and original float in the annual Parade of Lights! This one rolled and wheeled down the Spring Garden Road as a collection of luminous orbs of various sizes and shapes. Judges awarded the grand prize of First Place to the School of Architecture’s entry for its creativity, use of lights and overall effect. This year’s design team was led by Clayton Blackman, Mark Erickson, Matt Kennedy and Adam Pelissero, but the realization was a collective effort. Seven giant lanterns spent two months in concept mode before construction of the frames began just two weeks before showtime. A team of 30 to 40 students pitched in a few days to complete construction, “it was a very collaborative, collective project,” reflects Clayton. Each sphere featured a different cladding, mostly of reclaimed wood or found materials. The theme of sustainability was taken a step further when students decided to have the lanterns towed by cyclists, in collaboration with I Heart Bikes, a local business started by recent Dal graduate Sarah Craig. And once again, Engineering’s graduate students offered their technical expertise in lighting the float. This annual event continues to provide an outlet for collaborative creativity among students of the two Faculties. The construction of the float is made possible by contributions from the President’s office as well as the Dean’s offices in Architecture & Planning and in Engineering.

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Events Calendar 2012

April 10thAlumni ReceptionThe Standard Hotel: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmHosted by Christine MacyNew York, New York

May 2ndAPI / Nova Scotia Planning Directors Association Wine and Cheese ReceptionSchool of Planning: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmHalifax, Nova Scotia

May 5th Sexton Campus Lobster Dinner Big Rock Brewery: 6:00 pm reception, 7:00 pm dinnerHosted by Christine MacyCalgary, Alberta Register at: http://alumniapps.dal.ca/events

May 9thDalhousie University Alumni ReceptionArt Gallery of Alberta: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmAttended by Richard Kroeker Edmonton, Alberta

June 13thRAIC Welcome Reception Mickey Quinn’s, Delta St. John’s: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Hosted by Christine Macy and Paula Costello St. John’s, Newfoundland

July 6th TUNS Hot Wheels Reunion School of Architecture: 3 pm - midnightHalifax, Nova Scotia

To RSVP or for more info please email anne.swan@dal.ca or phone 902-494-1378.

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