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Saturday, November 21, 2009 |
Call for Nominations
Are you interested in leading changes in the planning profession? Have thought about being a more active MPPI member? Then please consider joining the MPPI Executive Committee or a working Committee. Or, perhaps you know a Full or Provisional member who would like to become more involved in the profession. Talk to them about sitting on the MPPI Executive Committee or one of its Committees.
How to nominate someone to MPPI Executive Committee
Apply in writing with a nomination form (attached), signed by three (3) nominators (Full or Provisional members of MPPI) and the nominee, and attach a brief resume of the candidate.
How to nominate yourself to MPPI Executive Committee
Apply in writing with a nomination form (attached), signed by you and three (3) other Full or Provisional members of MPPI, and attach a brief resume of yourself.
Deadline for nominations is Thursday, October 15, 2009.
 Download MPPI nomination form
Uncharted Territory - Planning for Change in Uncertain Times
Join us in the Wheat City for the 2009 Manitoba Planning Conference. Change in our province and around the world is included in this year's conference theme "Uncharted Territory - Planning for Change in Uncertain Times".
Three streams of knowledge building and professional development, Urban Change, Rural Change and Environmental Change comprise this year's program along with extended training and mobile workshops.
Click here to visit the 2009 Manitoba Planning Conference website.
In July 2007, the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) launched a Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), in cooperation with NRCan's Earth Sciences Sector, "Enhancing Resilience in a Changing Climate" Program.
The project is made up of the following five components:
- development of a CIP policy on climate change
- development of Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) modules on climate change
- research fellowships and studio project awards
- Community Capacity for Adaptation
- organization of a Northern symposium on climate change (July 2008)
Stephen Walker and Misty Carson recently represented the MPPI affiliate in Ottawa on July 10-12, 2009 to review materials being developed for a Continuous Learning module on Climate Change. Stephen and Misty will be delivering a two-day workshop next year to all interested Planners and individuals on how to plan for climate change.
 
Below is a link to one of the power point presentations that outlines CIP's approach to mainstreaming climate change tools for the professional planning community.
NRCan Presentation (PPTX, 3.8 MB)
April Breakfast Seminar - Hazel Borys of PlaceMakers, LLC
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
The Fort Garry Hotel
 
Hazel Borys is President of PlaceMakers, LLC, a premiere New Urbanist design and planning firm with a distinctive edge. They not only translate the principles of Smart Growth planning into state-of-the-art design and coding, they make those principles accessible to a community of stakeholders who are more likely to support what they understand. They are leading educators in each phase of the process that takes proven ideas of Transect-based planning and design through idea-sorting and decision-making and into implementation. They help write the rules for community engagement and design through participation in the Congress for the New Urbanism and the National Charrette Institute.
The annual Taking the Pulse of Practice event was held on Thursday, April 16th at the MPPI Offices - 2nd Floor 137 Bannatyne Avenue
Photo by David van Vliet
City Planning students gave a summary presentation of their Case in Point projects (student-practitioner collaborations). Practitioners who took part in these projects can report their participation to earn CPL learning units (please refer to the CPL Guide for details).
Faculty of Architecture Endowment
Fund
The Faculty of Architecture, at The
University of Manitoba, invites submissions for the annual
disbursement from the Faculty of Architecture Endowment
Fund. This year there is approximately $46,500 available
for disbursement. Please visit the Faculty website or click here for
the news release for more information.
Manitoba Professional Planners
Institute Annual General Meeting
held Thursday November
6, 2008 at the Fort Garry Hotel
Thanks to the
members who attended this year's AGM held at the Hotel Fort
Garry on November 6, 2008. A total of 32 members took in a
panel presentation on recent trends in the real estate
market, a compressed General Meeting and election of
officers, an opportunity to socialize over dinner and a
thought-provoking presentation by Glen Murray, now President
and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute in Toronto. The
following will highlight some of the key items presented at
the Meeting. Click
here for more information. Meeting Minutes can be
found here
.
And a big Congratulations to our Award
Winners! Best MDP: Stephen
Walker
Honorable Mentions: Mechyslava
Polevychok and Richard Borbridge
2008 CIP Award
for Academic Excellence: Erin McCleery
Best Case in Point: Ludwig Lee for
Informing Sustainable Design on the Downtown Edge:
Lessons for Winnipeg from The Quarters with Jessica
Roder (Consultant, Edmonton)
Honorable Mentions:
Shelagh Graham for Generating Design
Excitement: Urban Design Awards for Winnipeg with Jean
Trottier (U of M) and Jeff Palmer (CentreVenture)
Matthew Fitzgerald for Infilling
Community: The Case of Pocket Suites and the Integration of
Affordable Housing into Established Neighbourhoods with
Veronica Hicks (MMM Group)
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