
Mark Watson
Born in Dundee, Scotland, Mark took degrees in History (Oxford) and Industrial Archaeology in Ironbridge (Birmingham), worked in museums and then joined what is now Historic Environment Scotland, managing change to historic buildings and conservation areas across Scotland. He wrote the nomination for New Lanark’s inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List (inscribed 2001) and part of that for the Forth Bridge (2015). He has provided ICOMOS desk reviews of World Heritage nominations and carried out one field assessment. In at the start of two Europa Nostra award-winning projects, (Knockando and Stanley Mills in Scotland) he is currently the UK national rep for The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) and researches textile mill history, architecture, adaptive re-use and industrial heritage. He is collaborating on the TICCIH global thematic study on Textile Industries. "The Heritage of the Textile Industry" by Heike Oevermann, Bartosz M Walczak and Mark Watson (2022), available online: http://repozytorium.p.lodz.pl/handle/11652/4237
Documents
Sessions in which Mark Watson participates
- Darning the past, present and future of textile sites UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- TICCIH National Representatives fourth roundtable: Serbia, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- Presenter Hsiao-Wei Lin (Chung Yuan Christian University) | Presenter Dag Avango (Luleå University of Technology) | Presenter Anica Draganic (University of Novi Sad) | Presenter Mark Watson (Historic Environment Scotland) |
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: TICCIH National representatives session II
Sessions in which Mark Watson attends
- Getaway in Montérégie
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM | 8 hours 15 minutes
- Tour
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
- 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge (III). A tour of the Soulanges Canal
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 6 hours
- Tour
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MRC de Vaudreuil-SoulangesSponsor
- Discover the shores of industrial Montreal by river boat
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Tour
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Darning the past, present and future of textile sites UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Urban Textile Mills: examples of industrial districts, company towns and urban planning in Europe UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Presenter Heike Oevermann (Universität Bamberg) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Darning the past, present and future of textile sites
- Paper
- Architectural heritage of textile sites in Latvia: evaluation and possibilities for reinterpretation UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Presenter Liene Sondore (Riga Technical University) | Presenter Anita Antenišķe (Faculty of Architecture of Riga Technical University) |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Darning the past, present and future of textile sites
- Paper
- Un patrimoine immatériel en réseau pour les « Manchester » d’Europe UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Pascale Nachez (Université de Haute-Alsace - Mulhouse - France) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Darning the past, present and future of textile sites
- Paper
- "Meet the author": "The Heritage of the Textile Industry" UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Tour: A glimpse at Montreal's Centre-Sud Neigborhood
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 2 hours
- Tour
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Écomusée du fier mondeSponsor
- Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
- Signup required Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
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Écomusée du fier mondeSponsor
- TICCIH National representatives session UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Event
- TICCIH National representatives session II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Event
- TICCIH General meeting of members UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée