Conserving the Modern Australia

Abstract

It was ten years after Docomomo international was founded that the fledgling Docomomo Australia working party began its iourney through the challenges of the nnore recent past's conservation. Like Docomomo International, 1the Australian working party stemmed from a conference -the first maior conference in Australia on the conservation of places of the 20 th century. When it examined for the first time the issues raised by the conservation of these places, Docomomo Australia, unlike its earlier counterparts, had ten years of considerations to reflect upon. Many of the initial questions posed during the early Docomomo International conferences had been subsequently debated in various forums across Europe and North America between 1988 and 1998. What was the influence of these discussions here in Australia? VVere these issues relevant to the Australian context, and how does the European and American experience inform our practice here in the Southern hemisphere?

Keywords

• Australia
• Conservation