Mary-Ellen Tyler

Old age and trickery beats youth and skill


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Program: Landscape Architecture and Planning
Courses: Seems like I have taught everything, but this Fall Regional Planning Studio and Landscape Response to Climate Change.
Places: Grew up in small town Manitoba, have lived and worked in B.C., Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and Yukon and International project work in South America (Ecuador and Peru), Mexico (Guadalajara and Oaxaca) China, and Thailand.  Favourite travel places, Norway, Scotland, New Zealand, Sicily, Barcelona, and Portugal).

 

Language: English, fluent Cliché, and Profanity
Schools: Brandon University, University of Manitoba, University of Calgary, University of Waterloo (faculty member)
Degree: BSc, MEDes(Environmental Science), PhD (Interdisciplinary) Resource Management
Instagram: N/A (camera shy)

 

Secret ninja skills: Bartender and Seishin Taki Kyoyo (look it up!)
Favorite book: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and anything by Stephen King
Favorite podcast: Casefile (True Crime)

Defining experience at SAPL:

Dean (1998-2003) and student in the first class of Environmental Design (now SAPL in 1972)

How my mom would describe me in three sentences:

“A difficult child” – my Mom was a woman of few words

Top three dinner guests:

Mick Jagger (Rock Star), Helen Mirren (Actress) , Ian Tyson (Rancher and Cowboy song writer) and Claude Monet (French Impressionist painter) – that’s four but as my Mother said …. I am a difficult child …