
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)
Documents
A Four Hundred Meters Walk.pdf (53.42KB)
Sessions in which Gisèle Gantois participates
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Small-Scale Heritage: The Canary in the Coal Mine
- Participant Gisèle Gantois (Department of Architecture) | Participant Yves Schoonjans (Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Flanders has a historically grown dense network of routes and paths, linking towns and villages on an average one-day walking distance. Within t...
- Paper
Sessions in which Gisèle Gantois attends
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
- 14.00 The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour Heritage Project: Contestation or Contentment?
- Participant Laura Murray (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Kingston, Ontario, is known for its nineteenth-century limestone buildings and its associations with home-town boy Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada...
- Paper
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...
- Paper
- 14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages
- Participant Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Depuis les années 1990, la notion de paysage s’est développée à travers diverses approches et différentes disciplines. Objet essentiellement géo...
- Paper
- 11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)
- Participant Manon Istasse (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- As a member of a research group, I investigate the role of associations and scholarly societies in the construction and the promotion of heritag...
- Paper
- 15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne
- Participant Marie-Dina Salvione (École de design, UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Cette communication propose de questionner l’idée de patrimonialisation comme condition sine qua non pour la sauvegarde de l’architecture modern...
- Paper
- 11.00 La société civile russe face à l’architecture soviétique, ou comment patrimonialiser un héritage controversé
- Participant Julie Deschepper (INALCO) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- L’étude du patrimoine soviétique est actuellement un champ de recherches en construction. Afin d’effleurer les multiples problématiques que cett...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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
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

7:00
7:00
- Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Movement, stillness, and creation will be combined during this walk as participants are encouraged to attune themselves to the environment through ...
- Tour
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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...
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...
- Paper
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
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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
15:30
15:30
- 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

19:00
19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
- Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
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9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil
- Participant Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- In the past fifteen years, there has been an increasing call for built heritage practitioners to use the values of a broad array of stakeholders...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- The Lost Stories Project Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What is involved in presenting the past as a physical object in public space? There is a significant literature by scholars in various disciplin...
- Research-Creation