This article begins with a synopsis of the film "Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes", directed by Jennifer Baichwal. While the author can relate to the statements made in this synopsis, her experience and understanding of this 90-minute journey is much more intense and complex. In this essay, she attempts to dissect and examine her experience and understanding of this film using Karen Raney's five aspects of visual literacy: (1) perceptual sensitivity; (2) cultural habit; (3) critical knowledge; (4) aesthetic openness; and (5) visual eloquence. As a design educator, the author presents ideas she recommends in contextualizing Raney's approach in a design curriculum. She believes that these recommendations would greatly enhance a design or art curriculum, educating today's students in a more well-rounded manner and equipping them with an awareness that does not isolate any one facet or lens, stylistic or otherwise, but rather, promote the expression of the human condition and experience as a whole, that is embodied in art and design. (Contains 1 table.)