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

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.30 Small-Scale Heritage: The Canary in the Coal Mine

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

Paper

Gisèle Gantois, Department of Architecture (Participant)

Yves Schoonjans, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium (Participant)

Flanders has a historically grown dense network of routes and paths, linking towns and villages on an average one-day walking distance. Within t...

Sessions in which Gisèle Gantois attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

11:00

14.00 The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour Heritage Project: Contestation or Contentment?

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Laura Murray, Queen's University (Participant)

Kingston, Ontario, is known for its nineteenth-century limestone buildings and its associations with home-town boy Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada...

13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Mehdi Ghafouri, Vanier College (Participant)

Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...

14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal (Participant)

Depuis les années 1990, la notion de paysage s’est développée à travers diverses approches et différentes disciplines. Objet essentiellement géo...

11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Manon Istasse, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Participant)

As a member of a research group, I investigate the role of associations and scholarly societies in the construction and the promotion of heritag...

15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Marie-Dina Salvione, École de design, UQAM (Participant)

Cette communication propose de questionner l’idée de patrimonialisation comme condition sine qua non pour la sauvegarde de l’architecture modern...

11.00 La société civile russe face à l’architecture soviétique, ou comment patrimonialiser un héritage controversé

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Julie Deschepper, INALCO (Participant)

L’étude du patrimoine soviétique est actuellement un champ de recherches en construction. Afin d’effleurer les multiples problématiques que cett...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

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...

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

7:00

Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Movement, stillness, and creation will be combined during this walk as participants are encouraged to attune themselves to the environment through ...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

19:00

Film Series: De engel van Doel

2 hours, 19:00 - 21:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Marc Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Moderator)

Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...

12:30

Small (ERA Architects Inc.)

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445

Talk

Philip Evans, ERA Architects (Participant)

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:30

Engaging Authenticity

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant)

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 ...

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...

19:00

Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill

35 minutes, 19:00 - 19:35

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

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...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:30

The Lost Stories Project

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130

Research-Creation

Prof. Ronald Rudin (Moderator)

Lalie Douglas (Moderator)

What is involved in presenting the past as a physical object in public space? There is a significant literature by scholars in various disciplin...