Theme: Culture Change
True or False? Canadians believe heritage is important and know exactly what they can do personally to make a difference.
Question: People recycle pop cans to help save the environment. How can we get Canadians personally active and involved in heritage conservation?
Here are some of your thought provoking answers
- Pack the council chamber if a heritage issue is on the agenda and make your presence known
- Present briefs at council and committee meetings
- Make architectural design support for residential owners more available
- Canadian need to be better education and design so they appreciate and value the old and demand better in relation to new interventions – could even be a TV program
- Translate reuse/recycle in dollars
- Increase the cost for landfill and demolition waste
- Increase the cost of demolition
- Use examples of building demolitions that could have been avoided
- Heritage walking tours are a benign way of getting the public to think about heritage issues
- Like the environmental movement and the 3Rs, bring heritage conservation, urban/city planning ideas to elementary/secondary schools
- Start young so it’s an integrated, lifelong mentality
- Teach kids’ sense of place, heritage and cultural ideas
- Make certain that heritage issues are election issues at all-candidates meetings
- Heritage must be understood and tangible, not just the brick and mortar, but the people, the street, etc.
- Be careful not to convey the idea that it is just as good to salvage/recycle materials as it is to reuse and preserve the building or ‘complete heritage’
- Reuse is better than recycle for heritage
- Public marketing is needed to raise visibility through integration into government policies
- Use tax incentives
- Partner with media to raise visibility
- Get Mike Holmes too do a conservation project
- Celebrity involvement!
- Broaden the term ‘heritage preservation’ to encompass the concept of ‘sense of place’
- Partner with the environmental movement to bring building preservation into the Green agenda
- Enforcement of existing planning process and legislation
- Silo busting within municipal administrate structures
- City hall- wide support for heritage
- Financial support for media production TV, print about heritage
- Changed semantics heritage structure to sports facilities
- Unify heritage through internet
- Educate, educate, educate
- Make a ‘heritage’ video game with the goal to find a way to preserve
- They have to learn to value the resource
- Build curriculum around heritage preservation
- Post-secondary heritage conservation programs
- Peer group advocacy
- Teams at professionals educating the development community
- Educating public about the availability of heritage trades
- Anti-smoking lobby – How did they do it? Can we learn from this?
- Keep building and doing things
- Public forums for planning of heritage properties – proactive rather than reactive when a property is under threat. Invite the public to be part of planning the long-term
- We save buildings neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city, even at the provincial level. Environmental movement has to be international by nature. Other nations have better weapons.
- Make a heritage video game with the goal of finding a way to preserve
- They have to learn to value the resource