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THE JOYS OF JUST PRESERVATION

TEXT BY FALLON SAMUELS AIDOO, KWESI DANIELS, MICHELLE MAGALONG, ANDREA ROBERTS
Historic and cultural preservationists design the future of tangible and intangible heritage. Our ways of working and knowing–and making them more just and sustainable–include practices and pedagogies of architecture, planning history, law, anthropology, and archaeology. We also work towards multivocal, multigenerational, multicultural preservation praxis–a labor of love at odds with the measures of work worthwhile in academia and these professions. Engaging communities affected acutely by injustices of these disciplines and professions, we still find joy, connecting with what’s been left behind by engaging with who’s been left to care for it.

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NEW FORMS OF INSTITUTIONS

within a rhizomatic, counter-hierarchical network that facilitates equitable resource distribution. We extract from those who have extracted to collate resources and lift up marginalized voices.
Historic and cultural preservationists design the future of tangible and intangible heritage. Our ways of working and knowing–and making them more just and sustainable–include practices and pedagogies of architecture, planning history, law, anthropology, and archaeology. We also work towards multivocal, multigenerational, multicultural preservation praxis–a labor of love at odds with the measures of work worthwhile in academia and these professions. Engaging communities affected acutely by injustices of these disciplines and professions, we still find joy, connecting with what’s been left behind by engaging with who’s been left to care for it.
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