Matthew Jelacic is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Colorado. His current research includes sustainable materials for sheltering displaced people and the role of alternative organizational paradigms for traumatic urbanization planning. In 2009 he created the nonprofit organization fivesquared.org, to implement projects focused on Article 25 human rights issues. From 1996-2003 he was a partner in the firm Gans & Jelacic, whose work included emergency relief shelters (displayed in the 2008 American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale) and school furniture for the New York City School Construction Authority. For over ten years he worked in the sculpture atelier of Louise Bourgeois. Prof. Jelacic received his architecture degrees at Pratt Institute and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, was a Harvard Loeb Fellow in 2003-4, and a Bellagio Center Scholar in Residence in 2009.
Between September 2009 and January 2010, a team of MBA students from the University of Colorado, Boulder will be providing strategic planning consultation to the refugee housing project fivesquared.org. Professor Matthew Jelacic, principal of fivesquared.org, will advise the project, which is being completed for credit in the MBA course Social Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, taught by Prof. Francy Milner.
The fivesquared.org MBA team consists of Karan Goldsberry, Kristen Nicholsen, and Mackay Miller.
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