Scholarship to DOCOMOMO Symposium

Morrison County Historical Society (MCHS) staff members Mary Warner and Ann Marie Johnson attended a variety of sessions and tours during the symposium. Among the sessions attended by Mary were Furniture, Growing Up in Modernism, Modern Furniture Tour, Rural Modernism, 20 Years of Docomomo, Abbey Tour at St. John's, Library Tour of St. John's Bible. Mary found the Modern Furniture Tour and the Abbey Tour of St. John's particularly informative and useful. Among the sessions attended by Ann Marie were Modernism in Minnesota, Social Media and Advocacy, Growing Up in Modernism, Urban Landscapes, Rural Modernism, Roundtable: Changing Landscape of Modern Preservation & 20 Years of Docomomo US, Urban Landscapes (tour), Saint John's Abbey & University (tour), Concrete Conservation, Sustainability and SJA Roundtable. Ann Marie particularly enjoyed the session on Social Media and Advocacy, which included an interesting discussion and open exchange on the importance of social media in advocating for modernism, and the urban landscapes tour, which covered several sites along Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis.