
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 Prof. 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
- The 1970s witnessed a flourishing of living experiments in space, place and community sharing broad ambitions to bring about transformed human soci...
- Regular session
- 16.00 Modernism and Anti-modernism in 1970s “Green” Architecture: The Case of the Ark for Prince Edward Island
- Participant Prof. 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
- The emergence of “Green” approaches to environmentally-conscious architecture in the 1970s reflects and responds to a number of then-current eve...
- Paper
Sessions in which Prof. Steven Mannell attends
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
- 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 Dr. 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
- This comparative paper will examine how discourses and practices concerning gastronomic heritage serve as agents of sustainable change and trans...
- 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
- When radio entered Canadian homes beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, it produced a new socio–spatial experience for listeners and became a key co...
- 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
- “In the utilisation of the ‘old bodies’ of cities, there are both economic and psychological phenomena. They constitute goods as well as refere...
- 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?
- Migration is no longer, in the phrase coined by French historian Gérard Noiriel, a “non lieu de mémoire.” Public sites increasingly harbour the ...
- 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
- Just before six o’clock on Sunday evening, November 10, 1940, the bow of the MV Golden Dawn collided with the MV Garland, throwing its passenger...
- 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 Dr Suzie Thomas FSA (University of Helsinki) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- In different circumstances and at different times, the actions of countries, communities, and even individuals may be prioritized and celebrated...
- 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
- In 1909, Newfoundland’s first pulp and paper mill was opened at Grand Falls by the British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth. Virtually overni...
- Paper
- 14.30 The Highland House Site: Archaeological Pasts, Present and Future on Barbuda, West Indies
- Participant Prof. 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
- As a small Caribbean island-nation with a developing economy, Barbuda has struggled in accessing, documenting, and maintaining archaeological si...
- 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
- Debates spanning the value of urban heritage have recently intensified with the increasing belief that tangible and intangible heritage are “ind...
- 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
- The title of the paper refers to Tony Bennett’s article “Acting on the social” and his employment of the Foucauldian notion of governmentality e...
- 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
- This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...
- Paper
- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...
- Talk
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...
- 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
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- 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
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- 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
- (en français) Le centre-ville a été au cœur de nombreuses luttes depuis les années 1970. Le parcours proposé par Martin Drouin, historien, pr...
- 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 Prof. 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
- As for many cities with strong industrial legacies, including those that were once racially segregated, Baltimore provides profound opportunitie...
- 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
- The Homeless Heritage project (2009–2013) was a collaborative public archaeology project that sought to document contemporary homelessness from ...
- 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
- This paper will take as its starting point ongoing heritage discourses related to participatory, performative, and co-curational practices withi...
- 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
- Rarely do we see a piece of monumental architecture standing in such a state of invisibility in the community to which it belongs. Such is the c...
- 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
- Intangible cultural heritage is tightly coupled with material culture in a variety of ways. Learning traditional languages is helped by access t...
- 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
- Montreal is just over a year away from celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Expo 67, the world’s fair held in Montreal during the summer of...
- 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 Dr 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
- This paper will analyze the complex history of Jean-Paul Mousseau’s "Lumière et mouvement dans la couleur," an abstract fibreglass, resin, coppe...
- 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 Prof. Étienne Berthold (Université Laval, Department of Geography / Département de géographie ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- For a few years now, sustainable urban heritage conservation has been arousing a growing interest in the scientific community. Numerous studies ...
- 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 ?
- Montréal, à l’instar d’autres villes ayant adopté les principes de l’urbanisme post-fonctionnaliste, met en place depuis une décennie un projet ...
- Paper
- 12:00 The House of the Dawn: The Chalke Gate in Istanbul Interpreted as Absent Heritage
- Participant Prof. 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
- In this paper, I will discuss one of a number of contested heritage sites in Istanbul that have been extensively analyzed in articles and in the...
- 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
- En 1965, en réponse aux débats sur la vétusté des institutions londoniennes, l’architecte britannique Cedric Price publie « The Pop-up Parliamen...
- Paper
- 10.00 Urban Waste (Places) and Heritage Values
- Participant Prof. Susan Ross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- The idea of built heritage as potential waste is commonly represented by images of demolition and landfill sites. This contributes to an idea th...
- 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
- Can historic sites serve as places to discuss the roots of contemporary environmental issues? Since the 1970s, we have acknowledged the...
- 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
- In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...
- Regular session