On October 24, 1963 the Centre for Culture and Technology was created to keep Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto. He had received various offers from foreign universities but John Kelly, president of St. Michael's College, and Claude T. Bissell, president of the University of Toronto, together decided to double McLuhan's salary and establish the Centre for Culture and Technology for his research. While ambitious plans were drawn for a concrete and glass structure befitting a "physical embodiment of the work at the Centre," funding was nowhere to be found. McLuhan was undaunted: "We shall concentrate upon achieving an intellectual identity rather than a physical one," he maintained.   More...

The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology is a distinct research and teaching unit within the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. The Program joined the Faculty of Information Studies in 1994.

The Program's Association includes access to the McLuhan Reading Room in the InfoLab at FIS, and videoconferencing facilities in the Claude T. Bissell Building. Though a component part of FIS, the McLuhan Program welcomes graduate students from all disciplines. More about institutional support of the Program...

People at the McLuhan Program
Executive & Staff | Fellows

The McLuhan Program ranges from being a lively place, filled with activity and interaction, to a meditative retreat in which potentially profound insights are discovered and shared through the wonders of "communications at electric speed." With its physical incarnation deliberately maintained as almost a living museum, working in the spiritual presence of Marshall McLuhan inspires many of the people who are associated with the program.  More...