Sustainable Heritage for the 21st Century

Curating Technology began in 2020 with two friends and colleagues discussing their shared passions for sustainability and connections to heritage and place.

Our unique approach to heritage conservation takes holistic concern for sustainability for both tangible & intangible heritages through creative reuse, adaptive technologies, and circular economies.

Blending traditional techniques with digital innovation, we aim to bring fresh perspectives for what it means to conserve heritage with care for the 21st century.

Project Founders

Ashley Kochiss

Ashley Kochiss is an architectural designer and sustainability consultant currently based in Paris, France and New York, NY. Her work focuses on sustainability of new and existing structures through safety investigation, material analysis and emerging digital tools. With a foundation in restoration, preservation, and remediation, she also works on whole life cycle carbon (WLC) assessments and circular economy statements.

Rebekah Coffman

Rebekah Coffman is a historian, preservationist, and curator from Minneapolis, MN currently working in Chicago, IL. Her interdisciplinary work is at the intersection of religious identity and the built environment and explores themes of tangible and intangible heritages in material and visual culture through place-based, community-centered approaches. She regularly writes on sustainable and equitable approaches for cultural heritage conservation.