About this Event
ACAHUCH's annual symposium is supported by The Jock Simmie Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage Research Fund. Through this generosity we are able to further knowledge and accessibility to architectural history, conservation and heritage.
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Toxic Heritage
The annual ACAHUCH symposium for 2025 will explore ‘Toxic Heritage’. Join us for one day of expert talks and panel discussions, where speakers from practice, policy and research domains will debate ideas and share current preoccupations with ‘difficult’ heritage and conservation.
In forming this theme of toxicity, we draw on the provocation that heritage and nuclear waste share important concerns and challenges around managing risk and instability for future generations.[1] Questions will be debated around how to conserve and contain problematic and unstable building and artefact materials; how heritage values and practices collide with the machinations of regulation and commercial imperatives; and how future heritage management must contribute to the remembering and repairing of toxic historic environments.
Keynotes and panelists will explore ‘toxic materials’ in historic contexts, ‘toxic policies’ and planning regimes, and the remediation of ‘toxic environments’. Case studies will range from the conservation of the very local to international heritage sites that have been catalysts for destruction.
[1] Gustav Wollentz et al, “Toxic heritage: Uncertain and unsafe” in Heritage Futures, 2020.
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Zoom link will be sent via email.
The event will be recorded and a link will be posted to the ACAHUCH website and the Melbourne School of Design Youtube under the ACAHUCH playlist in the weeks after the event.
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CONTACT
The Symposium is convened by Philip Goad, Hannah Lewi, Theo Blankley (ACAHUCH, University of Melbourne) with Suzanne Zahra and Anne-Marie Treweeke (Lovell Chen)
Enquiries | ACAHUCH Coordinator : [email protected]
Banner Image: Argus (1941) Asbestos Suit [picture]. State Library of Victoria.
Agenda
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Introduction and Welcome
🕑: 09:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Session One: Toxic Materials
Host: Chair: Suzanne Zahra, Lovell Chen
Info: • Conservation Studio – Dan Blake
• Petronela Nel – Grimwade / CRIPPS
• Philip Goad – University of Melbourne
• Maren Koehler - University of Sydney
• Stuart Hanafin - Lovell Chen
🕑: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Session Two: Toxic Environments
Host: Chair: Steven Cooke, Deakin University
Info: • Alan Croker – Design 5
• Jonathon Kemp - Grimwade / CRIPPS
• Ian Travers - Extent Heritage
• James Waghorne and Ross Jones – University of Melbourne
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:20 PM
Keynote One: Iraq and Syria Heritage Inventories
Host: Chair: Philip Goad, University of Melbourne
Info: Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University
🕑: 02:25 PM - 03:00 PM
Keynote Two: Nuclear Heritage
Host: Chair: Philip Goad, University of Melbourne
Info: Tracey Ireland, University of Canberra
🕑: 03:15 PM - 04:45 PM
Session Three: Toxic Policies
Host: Chair: Julie Willis, University of Melbourne
Info: • Kristal Buckley – Deakin University
• Janet Beeston – Frontier Heritage
• Alan Croker – Design 5
• Matt Hinds – Taylor and Hinds Architects
• Jill Garner AM – Office of the Victorian Government Architect
🕑: 04:45 PM - 05:30 PM
Drinks and Discussion
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Japanese Room, Level 4, Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design),, Masson Rd, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
AUD 20.00 to AUD 40.00
