
Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns
Owner
Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS
Participates in 3 items
Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns is the owner of Erfgoed.nu, she advises governmental institutions, cooperations and private owners in heritage related issues. Speciality, monument legislation, grants, research, religious heritage issues, conversion, spacial planning and re use and redesign of heritage. Erfgoed.nu goal is to give heritage buildings a purpose in nowadays society. There for an integrated approach is a necessity. She is a council member of FRH *Future for Religious heritage, a non faith european wide organisation on places of worship. Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen, a national and independent citizen’s movement in the Netherlands aiming to re establish religious buildings as living elements of the urban and rural landscape and communities. Author and publisher of several guidelines and handbooks on re use of listed buildings. Guest lecturer of HAN University of applied sciences: repurpose and Monuments module Cooperation (2011). Author of Guidelines for Religious Heritage Gelderland (2009) “Oren van Steen” (2011) and “Future of our built history, guideline for re use ” (2014).
Sessions in which Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns participates
7:30
7:30
- 09.00 Introduction
- Participant Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns (Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS ) | Participant Édith Prégent (Université du Québec à Montréal, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain, Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Signup required Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 hours
- __ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to regi...
- Regular session
- 09.30 A Second Life, the Dutch Approach to Transforming Classified Religious Heritage: Process, Challenges, Examples
- Participant Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns (Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS ) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Religious heritage and redevelopment is constant and through fast secularization, the number of abandoned churches is accelerating in the Nether...
- Paper
Sessions in which Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns attends
11:30
11:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
- Regular session
7:30
7:30
- Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Signup required Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 hours
- __ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to regi...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Signup required Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...
- Regular session