DHCD's Community Revitalization Office (CRO) Webinar
Creating Community Vitality Series

Public Spaces
October 13, 2021
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Speaker: Elgin Cleckley, NOMA, Assistant Professor of Architecture at UVA

Public spaces – ones that are truly equitable and inclusive – are essential for creating community vitality. Our continued health and racial pandemics prove the urgency of more in-depth analysis and thinking for what these spaces need to and must be. This webinar shares an applicable model titled _mpathic design, an initiative, teaching methodology, and design practice operating at the intersections of identity, culture, history, memory, and place. This webinar shares the background and creation of _mpathic design, action-based empathic design thinking methods for equitable design futures, demonstrated through current projects in Charlottesville and Lynchburg.