
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
- The textile sector led industrialization and urbanization worldwide for nearly three centuries. Textile industries established global trade netw...
- 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
- Available 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
- A one-day itinerary on the opening day of the conference will allow visitors to discover
- Tour
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...
- 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
- This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned comm...
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- Available 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
- Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
- 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
- The Soulanges Canal is an infrastructure, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, which was opened to maritime traffic in 1900, succeedi...
- Tour
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MRC de Vaudreuil-SoulangesSponsor
- Discover the shores of industrial Montreal by river boat
- Available 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
- This tour offers an excursion on a privatized deck of
- Tour
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- Available 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
- In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
- 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
- The textile sector led industrialization and urbanization worldwide for nearly three centuries. Textile industries established global trade netw...
- 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
- Most of the industrial cities, districts, and company towns in a larger scale were planned and built in the late 19th and 20th century; at a tim...
- 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
- At the turn of the 19th and 20th century, the present capital of Latvia, Riga, was a major port and one of the most important industrial centres...
- 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
- Les villes de Chemnitz (Allemagne), Lodz (Pologne), Manchester (Grande-Bretagne) et Mulhouse (France), ont connu un développement exceptionnel dans...
- 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
- Meet the authors Heike Oevermann and Mark Watson, who together with Bartosz Walczak completed the TICCCIH comparative t...
- 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
- The South Central district is a former industrial and working-class neighbourhood with a rich and unique heritage. The visit will allow us to di...
- 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
- In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
- Event
- TICCIH National representatives session II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
- 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
- At every World Congress, the international TICCIH community celebrates a General Assembly of its members. The event is open for any registered m...
- Panel
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Available 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
- In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée