Galt Gardens Park Southwest Corner Indigenous Landscape Project
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Project History
Community LAb is a partnership between the University of Lethbridge and the City of Lethbridge (currently through Urban Revitalization) with the purpose of creating collaborative and student focused work-integrated learning opportunities that leverage locally educated minds to develop innovative and tangible outcomes to addressing real-world city challenges and enhancing community quality of life.
In the Fall 2020 semester, a group of four students completed a research project and presentation on short and medium term initiatives to make Galt Gardens more vibrant, safe, and inclusive. In Spring 2021, students took this one step further in choosing one of the initiatives to advance towards implementation and gaining experience in project planning and management.
The chosen initiative was to improve the landscaped areas surrounding the Pergola structure in the SW corner of Galt Gardens in a manner that enhanced vibrancy and safety through a focus on Indigenous representation. The initiative was broken into 3 steps, the first of which has been completed.
Concept Design – Spring/Summer 2021 (Complete)
Preliminary/Detailed Design – May 2024
Construction – Summer/Fall 2024
Concept Design
The CommunityLAb engaged with two consultants for the delivery of the Concept Design including Urban Systems as a landscape architecture firm and Marjie Cropped Ear Wolf as an Indigenous Consultant.
The role of the Indigenous Consultant was to engage with Blackfoot Elders at two key points; development of the guiding principles, and review of the concept plan; and provide feedback to the project team to ensure proper representation and consideration of Blackfoot values were represented in the design including traditional plant materials and their placement, authentic and suitable symbolism, and correct terminology and appropriate use and location of Indigenous language.
Project History
Community LAb is a partnership between the University of Lethbridge and the City of Lethbridge (currently through Urban Revitalization) with the purpose of creating collaborative and student focused work-integrated learning opportunities that leverage locally educated minds to develop innovative and tangible outcomes to addressing real-world city challenges and enhancing community quality of life.
In the Fall 2020 semester, a group of four students completed a research project and presentation on short and medium term initiatives to make Galt Gardens more vibrant, safe, and inclusive. In Spring 2021, students took this one step further in choosing one of the initiatives to advance towards implementation and gaining experience in project planning and management.
The chosen initiative was to improve the landscaped areas surrounding the Pergola structure in the SW corner of Galt Gardens in a manner that enhanced vibrancy and safety through a focus on Indigenous representation. The initiative was broken into 3 steps, the first of which has been completed.
Concept Design – Spring/Summer 2021 (Complete)
Preliminary/Detailed Design – May 2024
Construction – Summer/Fall 2024
Concept Design
The CommunityLAb engaged with two consultants for the delivery of the Concept Design including Urban Systems as a landscape architecture firm and Marjie Cropped Ear Wolf as an Indigenous Consultant.
The role of the Indigenous Consultant was to engage with Blackfoot Elders at two key points; development of the guiding principles, and review of the concept plan; and provide feedback to the project team to ensure proper representation and consideration of Blackfoot values were represented in the design including traditional plant materials and their placement, authentic and suitable symbolism, and correct terminology and appropriate use and location of Indigenous language.
