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Lanxi Dong

Senior Design Researcher

Innovation

Lanxi is a a Senior Design Researcher at SHS. Her role involves facilitating collaboration with stakeholders and connecting insights into strategic design opportunities for housing. She became interested in affordable housing after completing her undergraduate thesis on a co-design approach to creating artist live/work housing.

Lanxi’s design work focuses on human-centred research, co-design methods, systems thinking, and visual communication. She enjoys problem solving with stakeholders to provide better housing experiences that serve people, businesses, and communities.

She has previously volunteered with The Laneway Project and is interested in enhancing urban spaces and communities through art and design.

Education

Bachelor of Design, Industrial Design (OCAD University)

Read about the impact Lanxi has had in these case studies:

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North Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre - Suswin Village

Transitional Housing Development - 2023

A building under construction

Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association

Community Housing for the Future Solutions Lab
2022

A building

National Housing Council

Co-Creating the Right to Adequate Housing
2023

A townhouse

Blue Door

Housing Journeys Reimagined Solutions Lab
2022

A sign reading Welcome to Upper Hammonds Plains

Upper Hammonds Plains CLT

Driving Transformation: The Power of Land Trusts in African Nova Scotian Communities Solutions Lab
2024

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77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

At SHS we acknowledge the lands we are on are the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples and are now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that the location of our office in Toronto is covered by Treaty 13. In our work, we strive to continually reflect on our relationship to the land we are currently inhabiting and how our role as actors in the housing system can support the reconciliation process.