Continuing our conversation with Latin American conservators, Roxy speaks with Josefa Orrego Trincado is preventative conservator based in Santiago, Chile.

Josefa’s recent MA thesis focused on the approaches that LA conservators take to be sustainable. While many don’t use the language specifically, their actions and perspectives often are congruent with sustainable action.

Due to financial and local sourcing difficulties, LA conservators are much more adaptive, making reuse a common strategy of their practice as well as reconsidering rigid climate set point regulation, and reliance on energy-consuming equipment.

She argues for a more holistic perspective of sustainability one that includes social and economic alongside environmental, and highlights how having a relationship with the indigenous communities as a steward ...