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Gisèle Gantois

Architect MSc in Conservation, Lecturer, PhD Candidate
Department of Architecture
Participates in 1 Session
Gisèle Gantois is an architect, specialized in the restoration and adaptive reuse of small-scale rural heritage. She teaches in the International Masters, faculty of architecture at the KU Leuven, campus Ghent, Belgium. She’s doing research on what methods and tools can be found to explore, to detect, to unveil and to map the intangible of the tangible to develop cultural heritage and its context differently by understanding the actual cultural, social and ecological significance for the individual or the community today. PhD research project: Gantois, G. (2014-2018) The Architect - Heritage Practitioner as Storyteller. Tracing the Ecological and Cultural Significance of rural built heritage of local importance in the framework of adaptive (re-)use.’ Promoters Prof. Yves Schoonjans and prof. Krista De Jonge. She is author (with Yves Schoonjans as co-author) of The architect as mediator between the built heritage and the social construct. (2014), The Nameless Local. (2015) and Storytelling as strategy to envision the changing meaning of heritage from an object-focused approach towards an intertwined contextual one. (2015) and editor (with Prof. Dr. Yves Schoonjans and Prof. Dr. Kris Scheerlinck) of The Cuesta of the Rupel Region; New Challenges for its Cultural Heritage. Volume I and II (2015)

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Sessions in which Gisèle Gantois participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
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Sessions in which Gisèle Gantois attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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
    Festive Event

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in...
Event manager
11:00
11:00
12:30
12:30
17:00
17:00
  • Smoked meat in questions
  • Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
  • 17:00 - 18:00  | 1 hour
  • This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Moderator
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
7:00
12:30
12:30
19:00
19:00
  • 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...
  • Public event

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
12:30
12:30
  • 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
    Co-Construction and Community Based HeritageArchitecture and UrbanismPublic event
Philip Evans
Participant
ERA Architects
Dr Jessica Mace
Moderator
University of Toronto
Postdoctoral Fellow
13:30
13:30
  • 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
    Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritagePublic event
    Changes in heritageNew manifestations of heritageNotions of heritage
15:30
15:30
Prof. Xavier Greffe
Participant
University paris I
Professeur de sciences é...
Luc-Normand Tellier
Moderator
UQAM
Professeur émérite
19:00
19:00

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
13:30
13:30