Shelagh McCartney
Biography:
SHELAGH MCCARTNEY is a Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is an award-winning architect and scholar with an international reputation. As founding director of the Together Design Lab, she works with First Nations communities in Northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories to identify housing and wellness priorities and develop housing that fits local culture, climate and geography. These partnerships produced Canada's first regional First Nations-led housing strategy. Her work treats housing as a community-based, decolonized system that supports cultural well-being and self-determination, and she has also taken on the housing affordability challenges students face. She was named a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2021 and a Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2024.
Activities:
- 2026-10-22 – Ethics Series — Is Housing a Right?