#DismantlePreservation was hosted July 26-30, 2021! The unconference worked to continue pushing cultural resource conversations in a range of directions and featured current students/recent graduates from around the world!
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Presentations hosted on July 30:
Lightning Talk: The ABCs of Healing-centered Planning
An alternative to the rational model of planning, the ABCs of healing-centered planning acknowledge collective and individual traumas and accommodate the natural human emotional responses to change. The framework is a human-centered approach to planning, preservation, and cultural resource management.
Speaker: Carolyn Levine, People-centered planner; Website, LinkedIn
Use Shwartz's Theory of Values to understand and interpret how social identity creates structural impediments or facilitates change on historical sites.
Speaker: Anne M. Chance, MHP, Historic Preservation Consultant; LinkedIn
Lightning Talk: Bringing Funk Back to Dayton - due to copyright restrictions, this session is not available as a recording. Please visit the speaker’s website to learn more
Jacqueline Hudson will discuss her experience in the application process of securing an Ohio Historical Marker to commemorate the former site of the Troutman Sound Labs in Dayton, OH. This former recording studio not only produced local and national artists in funk music, but also created a sense of community locally.
Speaker: Jacqueline P. Hudson, Emerging Museum Professional; Website; LinkedIn
Lightning Talk: There Is A Balm: Performance, Voyeurism, and Public History Through Beyonce’s Lemonade.- due to copyright restrictions, this session is not available as a recording. Please visit this link to learn more about this research.
Why would a Black woman be motivated to go on a plantation tour, what would be her experience? This paper uses Beyonce’s Lemonade to examine plantation tourism and Black women’s identity through the themes of performance and voyeurism. The healing of multigenerational trauma of Black American women descendant of the enslaved is possible on plantations as shown in Lemonade.
Speaker: Athena F. Richardson, Finance and Project Manager for the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium; LinkedIn
Lightning Talk: Barrio Viejo: Redefining "Mexican-ness" and Profit
Barrio Viejo is a longstanding barrio located in Tucson, Arizona. Within 50 years, this neighborhood has undergone gentrification and remodeling- adhereing to perceived notions of “Mexican-ness” through building color, material, and physical use in order to create a false sense of history. One project, the remodel of Teatro Carmen, looks to combat the false narratives by honoring and highlighting community use, diversity, and women's importance.
Speaker: Rikki Riojas- Community Researcher
Lightning Talk: To Carve Out Space: Towards Transgender Inclusion in Museums
What aspects of a museum can make or break an experience for transgender visitors? New research on trans visitor experiences breaks down the contexts that contribute to feelings of inclusion and exclusion in a museum, and the material ways museum workers can create positive change.
Speaker:Johanna Berliner (they/he), museum evaluator; LinkedIn, Research
Panel Discussion: The Preservation Revolution for Early Preservationists
This panel discussion will be centered on the Preservation Revolution for Early Preservationists - a critical look at preservation from the angle of recent historic preservation master’s graduates early in their careers. The panel with the co-founders of Side B, Richard Aviles and Lacey Wilson will look at the core issues of preservation from an academic and professional standpoint, outline what’s necessary for a Revolution in Preservation and how newer preservationists make their place in it. THIS IS A HAPPY HOUR!
Panelists: Eduardo Ruas, Co-founder Side B- Website, Instagram, LinkedIn
Lacey Wilson, public historian, and historic interpreter. Twitter. Instagram. LinkedIn
Richard Aviles, Artist, Urban Planner, and Social Worker; Youtube, Instagram, LinkedIn
Taylor Kabeary, Co-founder Side B; Website, Instagram, LinkedIn