Lucie K. Morisset
Elle, She
Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, Lucie K. Morisset is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the School of Management Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal.
An architectural historian and anthropologist by training, she is interested in the ideas and objects of urbanism, particularly in company towns and industrial wastelands. She researches the formation and meaning of the built landscape and the relationships between identity, culture and territories, among others as they manifest themselves through heritage practices and the production of heritage discourses. Her work includes theoretical explorations of heritage communities and the right to heritage, and action research initiatives on territorial and local development.
Lucie K. Morisset is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sessions in which Lucie K. Morisset participates
Wednesday 25 May, 2022
We propose a rich and colorful inaugural evening, in a mythical place: Dawson Hall, behind St James United Church (1887-1889, Alexander Francis Dunlop, arch.), known as the "Montreal Methodist Cathedral" - with 2000 seats, it was the largest Methodist church in Canada when it was built. Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996, it escaped demolition in 1980 when it was classified as a historic monument, and then escaped extinction thanks to an ambitious restoration project, in...
Sessions in which Lucie K. Morisset attends
Saturday 28 May, 2022
We offer a unique experience for the closing dinner of this conference in Montreal, in the former U.S. pavilion of Expo'67 - the most popular of the exhibition, with 5.3 million visitors: the "geodesic dome" designed by architect Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) with the collaboration of Shoji Sadao. The self-supporting steel honeycomb structure, covered with a polymer skin, was burned down in 1976 and redeveloped in the 1990s, according to the plans of architect Éric Gauthier, into an envir...