
Brian Rosa
I am an urban geographer and photographer living in Barcelona, Spain, where I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before relocating to Barcelona, I was Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Queens College) and Geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York. I was also affiliated with the Queens College MFA in Social Practice program and was founder and co-Director of the College’s City Lab. From 2013 to 2014, I was Lecturer in Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, a MRP in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a BA in Sociology from Clark University.
My academic work focuses on the transformation of deindustrializing urban districts and landscapes of urban infrastructure, political debates about urban heritage and preservation, gentrification, visual methods, and the spatial and cultural politics of urban transformation in Britain, the United States, and Spain.
I am co-editor, with Christoph Lindner, of Deconstructing the High Line (Rutgers UP 2017), and have published my work in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in English and Spanish.
My current research in Barcelona explores the conservation of smokestacks as monuments-typically, demolishing remaining industrial buildings and structures and leaving them in landscaped plazas- and seeks to understand how and why this urban design strategy has been replicated since the 1980s. Then, through a participatory methodology involving a photography exhibition at the History Museum of Barcelona, I am investigating what people who live, work, and visit working-class, former industrial districts in the city understand these monuments to symbolize, and to understand attitudes about the city's relation with its industrial heritage and history of urban redevelopment since the transition to democracy and its policy-led deindustrialization.
Documents
Sessions in which Brian Rosa participates
- The smokestack in the plaza: Industrial monumentalization and gentrification in Barcelona UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Brian Rosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?
- Paper
Sessions in which Brian Rosa attends
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
- The best defence is a strong offence. When civic society is the best advocate for the protection of industrial heritage. A case study in Barcelona UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Speaker Èlia Casals Alsina (Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement I
- Paper
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Repas
- Photography and Industrial Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 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
- Industrial Landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory - The case of Lordelo do Ouro Woollen Mill, Porto, Portugal (1805-2020) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Mário Bruno Pastor (APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II
- Paper
- Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the Arts UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Speaker Anne Scheinhardt (Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum)) |
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts I
- Paper
- Photography as a tool for industrial heritage research, acknowledge, and social engagement: The case study of Anina (Romania) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Speaker Oana Cristina Tiganea (Politecnico di Milano) |
- 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Identity, society, and industrial heritage preservation in Central and Eastern Europe III
- Paper
- Ruin and revival: Pittsburgh's city staircases as artifacts of alternative urban histories and contemporary narratives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Elena Clarke |
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory III
- Paper
- 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
- Early bird tour. Lachine Canal: A walk through history and commemoration or The Lachine Canal: now and then
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tour
- Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- All the Pink Houses: pastel gentrification and international pastiche UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Elizabeth Carnegie (Northumbria University) | Presenter Derek Bryce (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?
- Paper
- Abandoned industrial buildings as alternative places of creation: Montreal's underground art galleries - The case of 4000 Saint-Patrick UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Participant Myriam Joannette (Chaire de recherche du Canada en patirmoine urbain) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III
- Paper
- Perception of the potential of industrial culture UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Speaker Karsten Feucht (www.industriekultur.berlin) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III
- Paper
- The creative city despite the Creative City. Key factors for sustainable arts-led regeneration programs UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Èlia Casals Alsina (Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?
- Paper
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- 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
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- 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
- Closing dinner
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Usine C - Hall
- 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 3 hours
- Repas