A Glimpse into the Future
Racial violence. Urban resilience. Acoustic heritage. Heritage conservation students at the University of Southern California are tackling some of the most important and innovative issues in the field, and we’re bringing their groundbreaking work to you. In this inaugural episode of Save As, the dynamic duo of Trudi Sandmeier and Cindy Olnick discuss how the podcast came about and what you can look forward to over the coming months. You’ll get a glimpse of a glimpse of the future of heritage conservation–new ways of thinking about what we save, why we save it, and for whom.
Show notes
E1: Trudi and Cindy discuss the inspiration behind Save As and hint at future episode topics.
Welcome to Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation! We are excited to launch this new podcast introducing our listeners to the original research happening in the field of heritage conservation by our talented USC students, alumni, and faculty.
The podcast is hosted by Trudi Sandmeier, Director of Heritage Conservation programs at the USC School of Architecture and Cindy Olnick, a heritage conservation communications specialist. The two hosts have been colleagues and friends for years and share a deep passion for telling the stories of places that matter and the people who save them.
Our producer Willa Seidenberg is our secret weapon. Not only is she a long-time professor of radio journalism for the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, but she is also earning her Master’s degree in Heritage Conservation. We look forward to interviewing her about HER thesis in the near future!
Podcast breakdown:
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- [3:51]: Why use the term heritage conservation instead of historic preservation?
- [6:51]: A little bit about the research foci of USC/MHC
- [10:42]: Descriptions of upcoming episodes
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Interested in learning more about heritage conservation or some of the things mentioned in this episode? Check out:
USC Master of Heritage Conservation program
California Register of Historical Resources
National Register of Historic Places
Latinos in Heritage Conservation
APIAHiP (Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation)
California Preservation Foundation
Episode Credits:
We couldn’t do this without our amazing Save As Dream Team – Xiaoling Fang (visiting Urban Light at LACMA), Lindsay Mulcahy (she’s on the right with her classmates Stacy Williams and Rafael Fontes at the Paul R. Williams-designed Founder’s Church), and Julia Ressler who offer creative input, advice, perspective, reality checks, and hands-on help to make this episode even possible.
The Save As logo was designed by the talented Fern Vargas – and we are grateful for the support of the Communications team at the USC School of Architecture!
Special thanks to Stephen Conley who wrote our Save As theme music – you can reach him at stephenconleymusic@gmail.com.
And thanks many times over to Tom Davies for his sound engineering and tech support.
Trudi and Cindy! So glad to see the podcast up and running. It’s very well done, as is expected from you all. And it’s a great way to hear about the original research going on. I’ve been hoping someone would do the scholarly research on Robert Kennard, and now I know a USC student is working in it. Looking forward to the episodes to come!
And I didn’t even spell my name right 🙂 You know who this is.
Hi Flora! Sorry for the delayed reply and thanks so much for your comment! Hope you’re enjoying the podcast. You’re right; it’s been a long time coming. We’re excited it’s out and grateful to our dear listeners!