James Douet

Heritage consultant and writer

patrimoni-industrial.com

Participates in 2 items

James Douet is a consultant industrial historian and exhibition curator, based in Barcelona. Recent research projects have included the comparative thematic studies for TICCIH and ICOMOs, used to guide World Heritage evaluations, of the heritage of the water industry and of oil/petroleum production. A long collaboration with TICCIH since the Greek Congress in 1997 includes drafting the Nizhny Tagil Charter, editing the TICCIH guide Industrial Heritage Retooled, and producing the quarterly TICCIH Bulletin. I teach an on-line course on industrial heritage conservation with the Canadian Athabasca University.

The history of waterworks, The Architecture of Steam, linking social, architectural and technical perspectives, is published by Liverpool University Press in February 2023.

Exhibition projects include museums of cement production, textiles, building construction, and most recently of work itself, a viewpoint extending from prehistoric bands to artificial intelligence.

My current focus is on developing a project for a comparative study of the royal manufactories and production facilities which were established by ancien régime states as an alternative path to industrialization, and identifying common approaches to their conservation and management.

Documents

JamesDouet_fulleto.pdf (208.53KB)

Oil industry thematic report.pdf (3.35MB)

Sessions in which James Douet participates

Monday 29 August, 2022

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

1:30 PM

Changing landscape of industrial heritage education - Innovative and creative pedagogical approaches in industrial heritage learning

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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)

This roundtable will examine innovative and creative pedagogical approaches and partnerships that have created opportunities for experiential le...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

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

9:00 AM

Evaluating the global heritage of oil and energy production

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Roundtable

James Douet, patrimoni-industrial.com (Moderator)

James Gunn, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (Panelist)

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Panelist)

Elisa Rubalcava, GoA - Historic Resources Management Branch (Panelist)

This session will bring together four specialists in the history of the production of oil and petroleum, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, t...

Sessions in which James Douet attends

Sunday 28 August, 2022

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

5:00 PM

Opening ceremony

2 hours, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Signup required

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)

Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...

Monday 29 August, 2022

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

9:30 AM

Word of Welcome

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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)

10:00 AM

Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Roundtable

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)

11:00 AM

Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective I

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Moderator)

Marion Steiner, TICCIH International (Moderator)

Industrialization processes have been global from their very beginning. However, their interpretation still tends to be limited to specific loca...

12:30 PM

Lunch

1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

5:00 PM

Break : Sugar Shack Event

30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Pause

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

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

9:30 AM

La manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix, en Bretagne, patrimoine industriel et diffusion de culture scientifique

20 minutes, 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Part of: Museums and industrial culture: presentation and interpretation issues and cases I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Paul Smith, Comité d'Information et de liaison pour l''archéologie, l'étude et la mise en valeur du patrimoine industriel (CILAC) (Speaker)

Depuis 2019, avec la fermeture d’une usine à cigarettes à Riom, près de Clermont-Ferrand, l’industrie française des tabacs n’existe plus, une affai...

11:00 AM

Museums and industrial culture: presentation and interpretation issues and cases II

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial herit...

3:30 PM

Industrial Heritage Conservation and Climate Change

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Roundtable

Roman Hillmann, German Mining-Museum, Bochum (Panelist)

Peter Kitay, Ontario Secondary Schools Federation / Ottawa Carleton District School Board (Moderator)

Past efforts to conserve and interpret industrial heritage have rarely acknowledged the role of industry causing damaging environmental chang...

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)

Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

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

11:00 AM

Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

Mário Bruno Pastor, APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT (Moderator)

This session brings together a set of studies focused on the uses adaptative reuses (and even replications) of industrial heritage in the larger...

Industrial heritage as cultural hub: the case study of the Real Vinícola and Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos (Portugal)

20 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Part of: Uses of industrial heritage: cases in transformation II

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Paper

Beatriz Takahashi, CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» (Speaker)

This study is based on the discussion of industrial heritage developed during the final thesis of my ma...

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Speaker)

In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

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

9:00 AM

Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...

11:00 AM

Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...

Big-data geospatial heritage infrastructures and industrial heritage

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R910 (access from the metro floor)

Workshop

Daniel Trepal, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Don Lafreniere, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Sarah F Scarlett, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Moderator)

Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

The use of industrial heritage is a profoundly important factor in the process of creating a sustainable economic, social, and political future ...

5:30 PM

Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp

2 hours, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Signup required

Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine

Cocktail

Friday 2 September, 2022

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

9:00 AM

TICCIH National representatives session

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Event

Hildebrand de Boer, European Route of Industrial Heritage - ERIH e.V. (Participant)

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...

11:00 AM

TICCIH National representatives session II

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Event

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...

12:00 PM

Lunch : barbecue event with Tout un Fumoir

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Repas

To keep you in shape for the TICCIH General Meeting, we are offering a special lunch, prepared on site on a smokehouse by Ron Wiser. Her...

1:00 PM

TICCIH General meeting of members

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Panel

At every World Congress, the international TICCIH community celebrates a General Assembly of its members. The event is open for any registered m...

3:30 PM

Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate

1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)

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...

6:30 PM

Closing dinner

3 hours, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Available

Usine C - Hall

Repas

Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...