4-07-23 Bonnie McDonald: People’s Right to Place

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At its 50th anniversary, Landmarks Illinois embarked on an effort to explore its relevance and how to move preservation forward over its next 50 years, culminating in its seminal guiding principles. What the organization found is that preservationists across the nation are deeply questioning our practices and our movement’s future. Landmarks Illinois president & CEO Bonnie McDonald was awarded a 2020 James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship to help bring the field’s challenges, and solutions, to the forefront through The Relevancy Project. Between 2019-2021, Bonnie McDonald spoke to 130 individuals, both within and outside of the preservation field, to explore these questions and bring forward people’s wisdom illuminating how change is possible. The project has evolved into a forward-looking effort to catalogue preservation’s issues, to make the case for its opportunities, to highlight creative solutions already being tried, and to instigate collective action toward change that will build a more relevant and just movement. History, culture and lifeways are a human and civil right and we must support people’s right to place. In 2022, McDonald published 11 blog posts exploring specific areas of preservation’s needed evolution and the final work, The Relevancy Guidebook, is forthcoming in 2023.

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4-07-23 Bonnie McDonald: People’s Right to Place

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