Helena ROUX
Helena Roux is a Phd student in urban geography. She did her master's degree in urban studies at the University of Lyon, during which she had the opportunity to live in China, and to work as an intern at WHITRAP Shanghai (World Heritage Center for Training and Research in Asia and Pacific) in 2019. She worked on public heritage policies in the Yangtze River Delta Water Towns, on Historic Urban Landscape approach and implementation, and did her master’s thesis on industrial heritage and the M50 study case in Shanghai. Her research interests include heritage conservation and heritage policies, industrial spaces and creative clusters and their integration on urban development projects, alternative cultures and uses of the urban space. She is now a doctoral assistant at EPFL for the SNSF project entitled “Uses of cultural heritage at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of 2022", at the Institute for Area and Global Studies (IAGS). She started her Phd in June 2020.
Sessions in which Helena ROUX participates
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
Sessions in which Helena ROUX attends
Sunday 28 August, 2022
Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of the École technique de Montréal, founded in 1909, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal campus.
Monday 29 August, 2022
This session presents case studies and policy reviews that contribute to ongoing debate and international dialogue on the role of planning systems and conservation practices in addressing the challenges of citizen engagement—conserving local interests, place attachments alongside physical remnants of industrial heritage. Over the past half century, we have witnessed the development and changing focuses of urban planning and conservation discourses addressing industrial heritage. Relevant p...
Within the scope of a research project, state of the art sensor-carrying drones using optical, thermal and multispectral imaging are used for the inventory of object of industrial heritage. Within the a first study the applicability of the sensors on corroded/coated surfaces and complex geometries (crevices) shall be elaborated. For this purpose, tests will be carried out on exhibits and samples under defined laboratory conditions and initial results will be compared. The further approach,...
During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created strong regional industrial identities and mentalities, as well as industrial images and imaginaries in the eyes and minds of external observers. Such identities and ideas of coal would go on to shape industrial landscapes and communities.The papers presented in this session investigate the social and economic changes that were triggered by ...
In a traditional Quebec sugar shack atmosphere, enjoy a maple taffy rolled on snow in the purest tradition, accompanied by music of the occasion!
Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.
Tuesday 30 August, 2022
Drawing on case studies from diverse social, cultural, and political contexts the papers in this session discuss the different responses to maintaining and assessing not only the physical sustainability of industrial heritage but also the sustainability of its social values and meaning.
Le patrimoine culturel africain est un tout sauf évident. Il est transversal au point où il est difficile le circonscrire et limiter l'appréhension de ses différents types aussi bien matériel qu'immatériel. Au regard de cette difficulté théorique et conceptuelle, la question du patrimoine industriel en Afrique noire française pendant et après la colonisation présente des difficultés en termes de définition de ses caractéristiques. En tant que composante du patri...
Past efforts to conserve and interpret industrial heritage have rarely acknowledged the role of industry causing damaging environmental change. But todays obvious worldwide climate change inevitably impacts our thinking about conservation. This is why we propose a Roundtable session to encourage people to take a fresh look at environmental impacts of industrial heritage.Already in the 1970s narratives of industrial history as a succession of triumphs began to be qu...
Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being preserved and for whom? And, relatedly, what is the relationship between industrial heritage sites and the deindustrialized working-class communities that often adjoin them? The keynote will consider the ways that the preservation of Montreal’s Lachine Canal, Canada’s premier industrial heritage site, has enabled gentrification processes that have forc...
Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
The Soulanges Canal is an infrastructure, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, which was opened to maritime traffic in 1900, succeeding the "old canal" of Beauharnois (established since 1843 on the north shore of the St. Lawrence). The Soulanges Canal was abandoned in 1959, when the current St. Lawrence Seaway linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic opened.The Soulanges Canal was designed by the engineer Thomas Monro (1831-1903). Of Irish origin but trained in civil engin...
In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-wing populism. Drawing on studies of memory and heritage, I argue that right-wing populists have cornered the market on talking about the past of deindustrialised communities. They have successfully misrepresented this rich and complex history to fuel rage, resentment, fear and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, ‘the past’, and in particular the industr...
Thursday 1 September, 2022
The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized working-class areas. The four papers seek to understand the socio-economic and political impact of recognizing the industrial past in the present. Two guiding questions will be asked. Can industrial heritage support those ‘left behind’ in deindustrialized areas where nothing, or very little, has filled the economic or cultural vacuum? Has industrial h...
The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized working-class areas. The four papers seek to understand the socio-economic and political impact of recognizing the industrial past in the present. Two guiding questions will be asked. Can industrial heritage support those ‘left behind’ in deindustrialized areas where nothing, or very little, has filled the economic or cultural vacuum? Has industrial h...
This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world are directly related to the place-specific trajectories of deindustrialization. In other words: the different ways in which deindustrialization impacts on local communities has a direct bearing on the emergence of forms of industrial heritage. I will differentialte between deindustrialization paths and related industrial heritage regimes in a) Anglo-...
