Alireza Farrokhi
Alireza Farrokhi is the Head of Conservation and Construction Services with Alberta Culture and Status of Women, responsible for heritage conservation and environmental management of provincially-owned designated historic resources. This includes more than 300 historic structures and assemblies at 23 historic sites including three industrial heritage sites. The Turner Valley Gas Plant, Bitumount, and the Greenhill Mine site contain natural features and industrial remains embodying early oil and natural gas, oil sands, and coal extraction activities in Alberta and are protected as Provincial Historic Resources due to their outstanding historic significance as birthplaces of Alberta’s energy industry.
Alireza has always been a strong advocate for heritage education. He has been instrumental in building capacity in the heritage filed partly through his work with several educational institutions, bringing neighboring discipline communities together to spark collaborative research, providing opportunities for faculty and research groups, and by underlining real-world problems and mentoring student cohorts to reach practical solutions founded on academic rigor.
An example of success in such collaborative work is the partnership between the Government of Alberta and Athabasca University’s Heritage Resources Management Program for the development of four graduate-level heritage resources management courses that support and promote heritage conservation education. Alireza had a leading role by securing funding for the initiative through Government of Alberta’s Innovation Fund, by identifying areas of need and providing input into course content and material, and by assisting with the delivery of in-person component of the courses.
Alireza holds a B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. degree in Heritage conservation. For his PhD research, he focused on heritage documentation technologies and their impact on heritage conservation management.
Sessions in which Alireza Farrokhi participates
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
Roundtable
Hsiao-Wei Lin, Chung Yuan Christian University (Panelist)
Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo, Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management (Moderator)
Helmuth Albrecht, IWTG TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Panelist)
James Douet, patrimoni-industrial.com (Panelist)
Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Panelist)
Alireza Farrokhi, Heritage Division- Government of Alberta (Moderator)
Sessions in which Alireza Farrokhi attends
UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
Cocktail
Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Other Participant)
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Event
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Presenter)
Christian Agbobli, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) (Presenter)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
Regular session
Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Moderator)
Marion Steiner, TICCIH International (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
Roundtable
Hsiao-Wei Lin, Chung Yuan Christian University (Panelist)
Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo, Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management (Moderator)
Helmuth Albrecht, IWTG TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Panelist)
James Douet, patrimoni-industrial.com (Panelist)
Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Panelist)
Alireza Farrokhi, Heritage Division- Government of Alberta (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
Regular session
Norbert Tempel, TICCIH (Chair)
Michael Prange, University of Applied science Georg Agricola (Moderator)
Ronald Mondor, Termarust Technologies (Panelist)
Eva Wentland, InduKon - network for the conservation of industrial heritage (Panelist)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
Regular session
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
Bode Morin, Anthracite Heritage Museum (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
Regular session
Christina Han, Canadian Industrial Heritage Center (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
Regular session
Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
Regular session
Heidi Pinkepank, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus / Institute for New Industrial Culture INIK (Moderator)