The National Trust is seeking to have the Canberra Olympic Pool added to the ACT Heritage Register in an attempt to save the structure from demolition.
The Australian Institute of Architects previously nominated the pool to the register, but the ACT Heritage Council in 2014 knocked it back.
The National Trust ACT is now conducting a social value survey with a view to generating new information that may support renomination of "this significant place".
National Trust ACT president Linda Roberts said the simple eight-question survey was about getting to the heart of the reasons people loved going to Civic pool.
"We do think it should be saved," she said.
"I think there is a feeling about the new facility in Commonwealth Park - will it have the same amenities? The dive pool, the toddler pool and the vast parkland setting?
"People love their pools, Manuka pool, Dickson pool as well and they want to protect those amenities that seem to be slipping away."
The Commonwealth and ACT governments are jointly funding a planned $137.8 million aquatic centre in Commonwealth Park to replace the "ageing" pool in Civic. The Canberra Olympic Pool site has been slated for a new convention centre and entertainment precinct.
The ACT government has said plans for the new aquatic centre have not been finalised. The initial tender process was paused when the documents did not include a dive pool or dive platform.
The National Trust survey asks if people feel the Civic pool is a special place to them and what they value about each element of the pool precinct, including the extensive parkland.
Mrs Roberts said one of the reasons the pool was not provisionally listed last time was because the Heritage Council believed it could not be proved that the facility played a part in the social or cultural life of patrons.
"That's why a member of our heritage committee decided to do this social value survey," Mrs Roberts said.
"We're really getting a good response to it through our social media.
"It's looking at that deeper sense of connectedness to the place rather than just the physical building - the experiences people have there, that go a bit deeper than just the amenity of it."
The Canberra Olympic Pool was built in 1955 by the Commonwealth Department of Works, ACT Branch.
It was built with an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a children's wading pool and a diving pool and tower "within a post-war international-style building complex and modern family-orientated landscaping".
In 1955, the pool won the 1955 Royal Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter Sir John Sulman Award for meritorious architecture.
The National Trust survey can be taken via the organisation's website.
