Thirty years after the inaugural Preserving the Recent Past conference, PRP4 will build upon its groundbreaking legacy with a new conference of concurrent presentation sessions, plenary talks, workshops, and tours. Since PRP's first meeting in Chicago in 1995 (and its follow-ups in 2000 and 2019), many new resources have reached fifty years of age; innovation continues in the treatment of postwar materials and assemblies; and new survey and documentation techniques have emerged. Buildings and sites from the recent past reflect the dynamism, creativity, and tensions of the society that created them. They tell stories-of culture and community, of environmental change, of multiple and successive modern styles, design practices, innovative products, and movements of social consciousness and activism.
Prospective speakers are encouraged to submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for individual presentations or complete multi-speaker sessions on topics related to recent past preservation. A typical conference presentation length will be 25 minutes. Proposals related to structures and sites less than sixty years old are encouraged. For more information on how to apply, please visit ">http://www.preservingtherecentpast.org/proposals">www.preservingtherecentpast.org/proposals. Submissions will be accepted until September 15, 2024.-----
The conference program will include three tracks of presentations on advocacy challenges and preservation strategies, history and context and technical conservation issues and solutions for built resources of the recent past, to take place on Thursday, March 20 and Friday, March 21, 2025.
In addition to the paper sessions, there will be additional opportunities for full and half day tours to visit preservation and recent past sites throughout the area, as well as training workshops.
This event is being organized by Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the Boston Architectural College, in partnership with DOCOMOMO-US.
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