This lecture will showcase ongoing research and documentation in Selma, AL, focusing on the events of Bloody Sunday and struggle for voting rights. The digital captures of deteriorating structures at the conflict site and along the march route advocate for preservation, and interactive platforms aim to expand and enhance historic interpretation. The lecture will preview selected content for the ACCelerate Creativity + Innovation Festival at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (April 8-10); alongside original physical and digital models, the exhibit will feature archival documents never exhibited publicly outside of Selma.
Danielle Willkens is an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture. She was the 2015 Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow and her practice experience includes design/build as well as heritage interpretation, visualization, and preservation. She is the author of Architecture for Teens: A Beginner’s Book for Aspiring Architects (2021). Her research has been supported by the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, and the NPS’s African American Civil Rights Grant program. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Atlanta Preservation Center and was a 2021 Mellon History Teaching Fellow in Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
This event is free but advance registration is required to participate. Please use the included link to register via Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the lecture.Please note that this lecture will not be recorded.
