VALS: Elgin Cleckley
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Tuesday, Mar 14 2023, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Tishman Lecture Hall
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VALS—Spring 2023
Tuesday, Mar 14 2023 7:00 PM Tuesday, Mar 14 2023 8:30 PM America/New_York VALS: Elgin Cleckley OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Elgin Cleckley, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at UVA with an appointment in the Curry School of Education and the School of Nursing. He is a designer, director, and principal of _mpathic design – a Design Thinking Pedagogy, initiative, and professional practice focusing on intersections of identity, culture, history, memory, and place. Tishman Lecture Hall Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Elgin Cleckley, NOMA, is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design with an appointment in the School of Education and Human Development and the School of Nursing. He is the Director of Design Justice at UVa’s Equity Center (Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged Scholarship), where he leads the school’s NOMA Project Pipeline: Architecture Mentorship Program.

He is the principal of _mpathic design, a multi-award-winning pedagogy, initiative, and professional practice. After studying architecture at the University of Virginia (’93) and Princeton University (’95), he collaborated with DLR Group (Seattle), MRSA Architects (Chicago), and Baird Sampson Neuert Architects (Toronto) on award-winning civic projects. He was a Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan and has taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago.