Through presentations and a panel discussion the session will provide critical insights into the current challenges facing heritage and preservation practice in Montreal, as well as the innovative approaches being deployed to address them. While Montreal is popularly recognized as North America’s francophone cultural metropolis, it is a complex and contested heritage place whose rich layers of history and contemporary significance, particularly for Indigenous peoples and diverse cultural groups, are often in tension. Building on the Montreal experience as a living laboratory, this session will explore how historic preservation sector workers can recognize and navigate this multiplicity of values and recalibrate heritage practice to better reflect them.
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate the current challenges facing the meaning and value of historic preservation in Montreal.
Examine case studies from current practice that indicate how the heritage conservation sector is successfully addressing the shifting significance of heritage places.
Employ critical approaches to heritage conservation challenges arising from heritage places with layered histories and potentially contested meanings.
Identify and explain ways to expand the relevance of historic preservation initiatives with a broad array of new stakeholders.
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