Innovation in historic preservation can sometimes feel like reinvention of the wheel. Let's instead reimagine our vehicles for change. The conversations that have occurred during #DismantlePreservation events have encouraged people to reevaluate our existing tools (ex: National Register of Historic Places and period of significance), but also to reimagine the field as a whole - what is historic preservation.
San Francisco Heritage mused on how to build a more inclusive preservation movement and included perspectives from #DismantlePreservation in their latest newsletter. Thank you for talking to me and for your thoughtful article Kerri Young and San Francisco Heritage! Click here to read the article (starts page 7).