The first event of the Fall 2025 Laurentian Architecture Lecture Series is scheduled for Monday September 29 at 5:45 pm in the Lecture Hall. The guest will be Indigenous architect Eladia Smoke (Smoke Architecture, Hamilton, ON). This lecture is presented by the Ontario Association of Architects. It is free and open to all.

Eladia Smoke is is Anishinaabekwe from Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation), with family roots in Alderville First Nation, Winnipeg, and Toronto. She founded Smoke Architecture as principal architect in 2014 and she is a founding partner of Oshkaabewis Engineering & Consulting. She is the first Anishinaabekwe architect in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, as well as the third Indigenous woman licensed as an architect in Canada. Eladia Smoke is a founding member of RAIC’s Indigenous Task Force established 2016, and was a full-time faculty member at the McEwen School of Architecture from 2016 to 2022. She serves on The International Union of Architects Indigenous Peoples Work Programme (UIA IPWP), the Toronto Urban Design Review Panel, and the Hamilton Climate Change Advisory Committee. Her professional work includes internationally award-winning community-based and institutional projects working alongside Indigenous peoples and listening closely to Elders.