Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

National Trust Winner’s Circle (2023)

Don’t miss the National Trust’s Award Winner’s Circle session, where the individuals and organizations behind this year’s award-winning projects and…

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Rethinking Material Values: Reuse, Deconstruction, Embodied Carbon, and Social Justice

For about two decades, the heritage conservation sector has been trying to define, assert, and leverage the relationship between conservation…

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Cracking the (Construction) Code Barriers for Existing Buildings

The Building Code is “sometimes” viewed as a major barrier when it comes to building reuse. This session provides an…

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Heritage and Housing: Resolving the Designation and Density Tension

Propelled by a growing housing crisis, Canada’s urban areas rapidly need more density and old buildings are said to be…

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Diagnostics and Retrofits as Climate Action

The race to net zero is heating up and heritage buildings are being pressed to prove their worth. This in-depth…

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Transforming Heritage: How Far Will We Go?

Launched by words of welcome from the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation and other dignitaries, this rapid-fire opening plenary will inspire and…

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Heritage and Getting Homes Built: Affordable Housing, Intensification, and Visualizing Change

Housing affordability and supply is at the top of the public agenda, managing change in mature neighbourhoods has become a…

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The Heritage Reset: Where Do We Go from Here?

Join a group of heritage leaders who will unpack what they’ve heard about the Heritage Reset, reflect on the critical…

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Stone, Tree, River, Path: Re-Thinking an Inclusive Heritage

What do we designate as heritage? What should bear the weight of memory, preserved as memorial? Buildings, monuments, landmarks, ruins,…

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The Next Generation: Transforming the Heritage Industry and Workforce

At National Trust Conference 2021 (with CAHP), ACO NextGen led an incisive conversation around what the heritage sector looks like…

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Measuring Impact and Asserting Value: Triple-Bottom-Line Tools, Deconstruction, and a Heritage Approach to Ordinary Buildings

Building reuse and retrofit as an alternative to new construction is recognized as the single most effective tool to meet…

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Ahead of the Curve: City-Wide Surveys as a Response to Proactive Heritage Planning

An emerging best practice in cities around the globe, city-wide heritage surveys are fast-emerging as a key a part of…

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Making Critical Choices (Part 2): Finding Common Cause with the Climate Movement

According to the recent Heritage Reset project survey of the heritage sector, failure to position heritage conservation as a player…

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Panel Discussion – The Heritage Reset in Action

Seismic societal shifts exacerbated by a global pandemic have drawn into question many values, structures, and public policies in Canada,…

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Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Award Winner’s Circle (2022)

2022 Conference Session Each year CAHP presents our annual awards to celebrate outstanding achievement in the heritage field across Canada….

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National Trust Award Winner’s Circle (2022)

Don’t miss the National Trust’s Award Winner’s Circle session, where the individuals and organizations behind this year’s award-winning projects and…

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Spark Session

Hold on to your seats! This fast and furious “Spark” session brings you enlightening presentations in a compact session format….

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Climate Action: Embodied Carbon Calculation and Adaptation Strategies

The Canadian heritage conservation sector is simultaneously working to help decarbonize the economy through building reuse/retrofitting and helping heritage places…

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UNDRIP & Indigenous Heritage: In Practice

Large governmental approaches involving legislation and planning are only part of the story of the United Nations declaration on the…

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Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces

While the relationship between architecture and community are intrinsically intertwined, the built form of “community spaces” is not easily defined…

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Making Critical Choices (Part 1): Resetting Heritage Practice

In 2012, the National Trust’s Heritage Summit in Montreal resulted in a manifesto that attempted to re-frame heritage conservation. Ten…

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Fixing Broken Systems: The Growth Machine, Environmental Plunder, & Expanding the Heritage Conservation Vision

This session seeks to unpack and disrupt key narratives propelling the take-make-waste mind set in Western societies. From the examining…

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Resetting Our Heritage Purpose

Seismic societal shifts exacerbated by a global pandemic have drawn into question many values, structures, and public policies in Canada,…

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ZERO is a Positive Number: Building Reuse, Climate Justice, and the Pathway to a Bright Future

Presented by National Trust for Canada Conference 2022 and hosted by the City of Toronto. Climate change is not occurring…

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Engaging Indigenous Partners in Cultural Heritage Management

Parks Canada is seeking to tell broader and more inclusive stories that represent the diversity and complexity of Canadian history….

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Getting to Zero: Energy Retrofits, Mitigation, and LCA at Heritage Places

The race to net zero is heating up and heritage buildings are being pressed to prove their worth. This in-depth…

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Getting to Yes! Building our Heritage Through Accessibility

How do ‘Accessibility’ and ‘Heritage’ work together? What opportunities exist for making our heritage buildings more welcoming and inclusive of…

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Resilient and Sustainable Historic Sites

‘Resetting’ historic sites requires breaking out of traditional models and adapting to ever-changing contexts. Whether through their innovative programming, communications…

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Heritage Education Reset

With heritage linked increasingly to achieving goals of environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability, what is missing in teaching still…

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Historic Sites Post-COVID Regenerating Tourism and Attracting New Audiences

As the tourism sector “hits the reset button” in the aftermath of COVID 19, what are the implications for Cultural…

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Heritage Adaptation Under Pressure

As the climate crisis intensifies and community values shift, heritage places are being asked to be more flexible, accommodating, and…

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Regenerating Places of Faith

Places of faith have traditionally anchored and shaped our communities. Yet many congregations today are facing declining attendance and insufficient…

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Recruiting and Engaging Volunteers for your Historic Place

In the heritage sector we rely on volunteers to be our advocates, story tellers, champions and fundraisers. In this webinar…

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Practical Approaches to Historic Home Rehabilitation

Rehabilitating historic buildings doesn’t have to be expensive and complicated. Focusing on historic homes, this webinar will present practical approaches…

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Climate Change in Heritage Places

This webinar will explore the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events affecting Canadian heritage places and will gain…

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