The studio invites you to design a multi-story-integrated-hybrid-public-open-space-building that houses a living tall grass prairie museum,  a bioregional seed bank, and research center that will be located at the Market Lands site in the Exchange District of downtown Winnipeg.  The studio will explore the tectonic implications of socio-ecological design and its corollary of critical opportunities for an urban prairie context. In particular, students are asked to explore design as a means of studying the act of city building and its relationship to endangered ecosystems.

This studio is taught by Liz Wreford MALA, OALA, CSLA  and Peter Sampson MAA, OAA, FRAIC, principals of Public City Architecture a trans-disciplinary practice based in Manitoba.  As part of the studio's research, students are invited to visit Winnipeg in mid-September.