Center Grants

Our workshop “The Visible Century” will convene an international roster of scholars to assess the legacy and ongoing significance of this groundbreaking work.

This is a collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiate to conduct research and create co- design strategies for socially and contextually aware modes of turning the water that is inundating historic buildings into a resource for improving the social and built environments of the Al-Khalifa neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt.

Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) are struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing in their growing cities.

Need for access to clean water is one of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century and a critical challenge for South Africa.

This grant supports the creation of a collaborative working group to foster interdisciplinary conversation among UVA faculty working on West Africa.

This study explores the relationship between Britain’s abolition of slavery in its Caribbean colonies (1838) and its instigation of the First Opium War with China (1839).

Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians using architectural techniques.

The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least integrated region in the world.

This research integrates several methods to comprehend the movements of forcibly displaced people in Athens, Greece, and neighboring areas.

Outcomes include a suite of new practices, an open access Generative Contemplation Toolkit, and launch of the Contemplative Design Lab at UVA.