About

The Manitoba Professional Planners Institute (MPPI) is the Manitoba affiliate of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) and represents Manitoba’s professional planning community.

MPPI is responsible for handling membership applications and services, and is responsible for the enforcement of the Code of Professional Conduct. MPPI, along with the Association of Community Planners of Saskatchewan, jointly publishes the membership newsletter entitled SCENARIO. MPPI also sponsors workshops and seminars for the purpose of informing the membership of relevant developments and issues in the planning field.

MPPI also emphasizes liaison with planning students, particularly those enrolled in the University of Manitoba’s Department of City Planning, and is responsible for periodic review of this program in context of national membership standards and requirements.

A few words about the MPPI logo

Planners undertake complex assignments working in varied capacities for any number of organizations. It is a difficult profession to define. With a clean and simple look, the new logo for the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute cuts through this confusion and underscores the essence of planning.

There are two key messages. Firstly, planning is goal oriented. The arrow pointing to a target conveys the message that planning provides direction; it identifies a desired end and establishes a means to achieve that end. Secondly, planning is founded in process. Moving from left to right the logo becomes more opaque. This symbolizes the fleshing out of concepts over time; the building of ideas that occurs through participatory processes.