
Steven Mannell, NSAA, FRAIC, is founding Director of Dalhousie University's international award-winning College of Sustainability, and led the College from 2008 to 2020. He is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture. His research includes waterworks architecture and engineering, the conservation of modern built heritage, lightweight construction techniques, and the late 20th century emergence of “ecological” architecture. He is curator and author of Atlantic Modern: The Architecture of the Atlantic Provinces 1950-2000 (2001) and Living Lightly on the Earth: Building an Ark for Prince Edward Island 1974-76 (2016). His recent chapter “Environmental Architecture” (in Lam & Livesay, Canadian Modern Architecture, 2019) examines the origins, development, and potentials of sustainable built environments in Canada. He is currently expanding this study with a focus on the intersections of design and social movements.
Sessions in which Steven Mannell participates
- Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 16.00 Modernism and Anti-modernism in 1970s “Green” Architecture: The Case of the Ark for Prince Edward Island
- Participant Steven Mannell (Dalhousie University) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities
- Paper
Sessions in which Steven Mannell attends
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
- 11.30 Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change
- Participant Jonathan B. Mabry (Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson) | Participant Teresita Majewski (Statistical Research, Inc.) | Participant Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
- Paper
- 12.00 Tuning into Canada’s Radio Heritage
- Participant Michael Windover (Carleton University) | Participant Hilary Grant (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- Paper
- 09.30 Conceiving the “Deep City”: The Teaching of Aldo Rossi
- Participant David Malaud (Laboratoire de l'école d'architecture de Versailles) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- Paper
- 14.00 The Museum of Immigration and Diversity at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields: Multi-Vocality in the Interpretation of the Migration Experience and Heritage
- Participant Andrea Delaplace (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 09.30 Memorializing Bell Island Mining Mobilities
- Participant Sharon Roseman (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- Paper
- 11.00 Locals, Incomers, Tourists and Gold Diggers: Space, Politics, and the "Dark Heritage" Legacy of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
- Participant Suzie Thomas (University of Helsinki) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- Paper
- 09.00 Labour Mobility in Newfoundland’s Forest Industry, 1909-1929
- Participant Dustin Valen (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- Paper
- 14.30 The Highland House Site: Archaeological Pasts, Present and Future on Barbuda, West Indies
- Participant Allison Bain (CELAT, Université Laval) | Participant Perdikaris, Sophia (CUNY Brooklyn College, USA and Barbuda Research Centre) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- Paper
- 11.00 "You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future”: Young People, Activism and the Indivisible Nature of Intangible and Tangible Heritage
- Participant Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- 11.30 Acting on the Body: Heritage as a Governing Strategy for Disciplining the Female Body in Twentieth-Century Iceland
- Participant Ólafur Rastrick (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
- Participant Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Talk
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
- Autour de Concordia. Au cœur du Golden Square Mile : explorations de luttes patrimoniales | Around Concordia. In the Heart of Golden Square Mile: Explorations of Heritage Struggles
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:30 - 8:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Tour
- 09.00 The Pedagogical Benefits of Critical Heritage Studies: Helping Students to Reveal and Engage with the Complexities of Deindustrialization and Urban Change (Baltimore, USA)
- Participant Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- Paper
- 09.10 “Home is the Streets”: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Work with Contemporary Homeless People and its Function as Advocacy
- Participant Rachael Kiddey (Independent Social Research Foundation) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 10.00 All the Fun of the Fairground: Challenges Representing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Scotland’s Travelling Showpeople
- Participant t s Beall (University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
- Paper
- 13.30 Behind the Wall: Fort St. Louis and the Colonial Legacy at Kahnawake Kanienke’ha:ka Territory
- Participant Wahsontiio Cross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- Paper
- 11.00 A Critical Eye in the Mirror: Building a North American Research Agenda on the Preservation of Intangible Heritage within Library and Information Science
- Participant Jerome McDonough (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- Paper
- 11.40 Expo 67, Revisited and Recycled
- Participant Johanne Sloan (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- Paper
- 11.00 Hydro-Quebec and the Cultural Legacies of the “Quiet Revolution”: On Photography and the Restoration of Jean-Paul Mousseau’s Lumière et mouvement dans la couleur (1962–2002)
- Participant Nicola Pezolet (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- 14.00 Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation and Research by Indicators: For an Open Approach to Discourse Analysis. The Case of the Historic District of Quebec City
- Participant Étienne Berthold (Université Laval, Department of Geography / Département de géographie ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- Paper
- 14.00 Negotiating Aestheticized Urban Space: What About the Modernist Mass Housing Project Sitting in Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles?
- Participant Guillaume Ethier (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Qu’est-ce que l’art contemporain fait au patrimoine ?
- Paper
- 12:00 The House of the Dawn: The Chalke Gate in Istanbul Interpreted as Absent Heritage
- Participant Nigel Westbrook (University of Western Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage
- Paper
- 09.30 The "Pop-Up Parliament" Designed by Cedric Price: The Architectural Project as an Imaginary Transformation
- Participant Maud Nys (Laboratoire LéaV - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles & Université Paris Saclay) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- 10.00 Urban Waste (Places) and Heritage Values
- Participant Susan Ross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- Paper
- 09.30 The Limits of the Frontier: Historic Sites and Sustainability in Western Canada
- Participant Claire Campbell (Bucknell University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- Paper
- "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session