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Dismantle Preservation Virtual Unconference: Burning Down the House

Preservationists need a different set of resources to be able to advocate for themselves, stories of the past, and the built environment.

In response to conversations with many of you, #DismantlePreservation Virtual Unconference will be a one day free event that will delve into mental health, unions/salary negotiations, public service loan forgiveness, implicit bias in preservation, preserving the full story, and how to expand who is investing in old buildings. Let’s dismantle historic preservation and rebuild it for the benefit of our communities today and tomorrow. The last class of the Unconference is: 

Burning Down the House

Enjoy rapid fire 6-minute presentations that will introduce you to new concepts, strategies, and lesser known histories. Lightning talks will occur in the following order:

• Architecture is both the tool and the result of settler colonialism; Fernando Luiz Lara, Professor and Director of PhD program in Architecture at University of Texas at Austin

• Tell the Full Story: A Meditation on the Retelling of History; Krista Whiters AIA, Architect & Capital Projects Manager

• Historic Preservation and the Fight for Equity; Mary Lu Seidel, Director of Community Engagement for Preservation Chicago

• Beyond Buildings: Conserving Sites and Stories of Racial Violence in Los Angeles; Jackson Loop, Architectural Historian

• Latino's In Indiana - Lost barrios, voices and their 100 year old Hoosier History; Nicole Martinez -LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator for Indiana Historical Society

• Lots of Potential: Preservation & Land Banks; Amy Lambert, Principal Architect at Philadelphia and Baltimore Amtrak

• The Systemic Racism of Preservation in Santa Fe; Shawn Evans AIA, Principal at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects

• Unlearning Academic Writing & Embracing Copywriting to Reach a Wider Audience; Terra Wheeler, Copywriter & Inclusive Preservationist

• Being a Decay Devil; Lori Gonzalez, Co-leader of Decay Devils

• A Wall in the Wild: Erasing the Borderlands; Laiken Jordahl, Borderlands Campaigner with the Center for Biological Diversity

REGISTER HERE

And submit your questions ahead of time at the link!