Started by Colloqate Design in New Orleans, Paper Monuments was a public art and public history project designed to elevate the voices of the peoples of New Orleans as a critical process towards creating new narratives and symbols of our cities that represent a more inclusive and collective vision. The project aimed to honor the erased histories of the people, places, movements, and events that have made this nation. The project served as a framework and foundation for a new iteration in and about Charlottesville, led by UVA School of Architecture Assistant Professor of Architecture, Elgin Cleckley and supported by Associate Professor of Urban + Environmental Planning, Barbara Brown Wilson. Cleckley, along with Paper Monuments co-director Sue Mobley, and UVA students Lauren Brown, Omer Gorashi, and Tryston Raecke will share and discuss the goals, products and impacts of this project as a form of public engagement, storytelling, and collective activism. This talk is hosted and sponsored by the UVA School of Architecture in partnership with Tom Tom’s Virtual Cities Rising Summit (#CitiesRisingSummit), Sep.15 – Oct. 30. Each thematic week of the summit features interactive talks, discussions, and mixers designed to share and build ideas with leaders from across the country. As an event supporter, The School of Architecture helped to make this season of incredible content and connections available to everyone with free registration. In the shadow of a global pandemic and the ongoing movement for racial equity, the need could not be greater to have everyone engage in these critical conversations. Paper Monuments: Charlottesville is a special session of Tom Tom’s Week 4 programming (Oct. 6 – 8): Yes, Community Arts Are Essential: Let’s lift up our creative neighbors.
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