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October 3, 2025

Made Visible: Bijhan’s Creative Vision for Edmonton Design Week 2025

September 30, 2025

Edmonton on Screen: CBC’s On Design Shines a Light on Local Creative Energy

August 15, 2025

Federal Home Design Catalogue: Nothing But a Fun Experiment?

The idea of a housing catalogue invokes illustrative and nostalgic ideas in the minds of many architects and urbanists. Like this Small House Designs publication from the Canadian/Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation from 1958. Yet, there are major implications to consider when discussing the revitalization of this initiative...

November 8, 2024

Announcing Throwing Shade: K-Days 2024 Design Competition

September 28, 2023

MADE Presents Edmonton Design Week 2023!

Media Architecture Design Edmonton (MADE) is pleased to announce the fourth Edmonton Design Week (EDW) happening this October 10-15.

July 18, 2023

Benchmarks: Street Furniture Design Competition for K Days

image of book cover for Trever Boddy's book

January 3, 2018

Trevor Boddy Book Launch: Glacier Skywalk and Stantec Airports

MADE and Bookshop by dc3 Art Projects are pleased to host the Edmonton launch of two architecture books with Alberta connections from Vancouver's Figure 1 Publishing

Group of people in Churchill Square Edmonton making furniture

June 5, 2017

16th Annual Street Furniture Competition

MADE's 16th Annual Street Furniture Competition will be held on Saturday, June 24th, 2017 at Churchill Square, during The Works.

May 26, 2016

15th Annual Street Furniture Competition

MADE's 15th Annual Street Furniture Competition will be held on Saturday, June 25th, 2017 at Churchill Square, during The Works.

postcard of a city in a winter landscape

April 26, 2016

MADE Winter Design Exhibition

MADE (Media Architecture Design Edmonton) is pleased to announce a Call for Submissions to architects and designers for projects that speak and respond to Alberta’s winter. Accepted projects will be in included in an exhibition that will take place in 2017.

downtown edmonton lit up at night with purple lights

October 5, 2015

Photo Recap From NUIT BLANCHE

A collection of images from this years NUIT BLANCHE

close up of the corner of a wooden chair

July 15, 2015

Street Furniture 2015 Video

Did you miss out on our annual Street furniture competition? Check out this video to see what you missed!

Poster for Brutalism with Robert Bruegmann at the AGA

June 26, 2015

Brutalism Lecture Follow Up

Brutalism took centre stage a few days ago in Edmonton with a visit by professor Robert Bruegmann from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

June 24, 2015

Design Opportunities with Vignettes3

March 1, 2015

Makescape 3.0 recap

December 28, 2013

Architectural Photo Competition Accepting Entries

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC – Alberta Chapter) is holding its first annual architectural photo competition.

canvas hut in the middle of a winter setting

December 11, 2013

Entries for the 2014 Thaw Hut Competition Now open!

November 13, 2013

makescape 2 recap: a sense of delight

makescape2 aimed at providing a sense of delight - by answering the question: How can design enliven a hidden urban space in the downtown? Hosted by MADE in the underused Centennial Plaza in downtown Edmonton

November 11, 2013

SNAP Print Affair 2013: Bright Lights

SNAP (the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists), one of Edmonton’s most exciting artist-run, non-profit, charitable arts organizations will be hosting our Annual Fundraiser: Print Affair on November 23rd, 2013.

night photo of buildings in downtown Edmonton

August 2, 2013

Designing Downtown - National launch & PKN 17

On October 5th, MADE, Progress Unlimited, and Edmonton's NextGen present one of the largest and richest citizen-driven conversations about urban cores in Canada through Designing Downtown - Pecha Kucha Night 17.

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