Ulrich Schildberg

Dipl.-Ing. (Town Planning)

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Participates in 1 Session

Studied Urban Planning (Stadtplanung) at the Technical University of Dortmund and worked for a long time in real estate management of worker´s settlements in the German Ruhr Valley.

Personal interests: Industrial Heritage of Mining especially on Svalbard.

Actually PhD-Candidate at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Theme: Development of Company Towns - Longyearbyen/Svalbard as a case study.

Member of the Svalbard Social Science Initiative (SSSI), TICCIH, Vlaamse Vereniging voor Industrieele Archeolgie, Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft and the Society of the friends of the German Mining Museum.

Working as voluntary guide in a visitor´s mine in the Ruhrvalley.

Member of the editorial staff of the quarterly "Industriekultur"

Documents

Kohle am Nordpol.pdf (26.35MB)

Development of Mining Company Towns - Longyearbyen (Svalbard) as case study (1.7MB)

ulrich schildberg.pdf (54.89KB)

Präsentation Montreal_0.1.pdf (5.68MB)

Sessions in which Ulrich Schildberg participates

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

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

9:00 AM

Development of mining company towns - Longyearbyen (Svalbard) as case study

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Part of: 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Ulrich Schildberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Presenter)

Mining Company Towns were often founded in remote regions, because mining is absolutely dependant from the site, were coal or iron-ore are situa...

Sessions in which Ulrich Schildberg attends

Sunday 28 August, 2022

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

10:30 AM

Tour: The Lachine Canal with Heritage Montreal

2 hours, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Signup required

Tour

Explore the banks of the Lachine Canal, the cradle of industry in Canada. Benefiting from access to hydraulic power, maritime and rail tran...

1:00 PM

Book launch: Deindustrializing Montreal

2 hours, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Signup required

Bâtiment 7 - La Taverne

Event

You are invited to the McGill-Queen’s University Press book launch of “

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)

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

Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas I

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

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)

During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...

11:30 AM

History- and heritage making in mining regions with contested pasts and futures

20 minutes, 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Part of: Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective I

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

Paper

Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Speaker)

This aim of this paper is to critically discuss corporate history- and heritage making in the colonial context of Arctic Fennoscandinavia. The pape...

12:00 PM

Uncomfortable past : Qullissat coal mine as colonial memory and built heritage

20 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

Part of: Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420

Paper

Jeppe Lorenzen, National Museum of Greenland (Presenter)

This paper presents insights into how negotiations of colonial past influences present understandings of the value of preserving and presenting ...

1:30 PM

Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas II

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

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)

During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...

2:00 PM

Fake The Fake - Transformation of a training mine to the Montanium museum visitor experience

20 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Part of: Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas II

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420

Paper

Andreas Hoppenrath, LWL-Industriemuseum - Westphalian State Museum of Industrial Heritage (Speaker)

Highly specialized training mines are characteristic elements of a colliery. One of the last of these training centers went out of service ...

3:30 PM

Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas III

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

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)

During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain

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

Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)

Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...

7:30 PM

Pub talk

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace

Cocktail

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

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

9:00 AM

20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation I

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

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)

This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned comm...

11:00 AM

20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation II

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

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)

This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned comm...

1:30 PM

Talk: overview of industrial heritage in Canada

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

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Keynote speaker)

As a "continent” country, in which industrialization began as early as the 19th century, Canada has seen through deindustrialization ...

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...

7:30 PM

Pub talk

1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

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

9:00 AM

Industrie et formes urbaines : village-ouvrier, ville-usine, ville de compagnie, ville industrielle… Enjeux actuels et questions patrimoniales, approches croisées I

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545

Regular session

Gracia Dorel-Ferré, APIC (Moderator)

Simon Edelblutte, Université de Lorraine, LOTERR (Moderator)

L’activité industrielle est un puissant facteur de concentration de population. En témoignent les sites antiques ou médiévaux étudiés par les hi...

Innovations in planning processes for post industrial landscapes

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Part of: Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Markus Otto, Brandenburgische Technische Universität (Speaker)

Post industrial landscapes, esp. region such as post-mining and, even more, post open-pit mining areas do need innovative, specific and strategic p...

Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Regular session

Heidi Pinkepank, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus / Institute for New Industrial Culture INIK (Moderator)

The legacy of open pit mining in general, and in the landscape of the Lusatian lignite district in Germany in particular, is a recultivated, res...

9:30 AM

Sustainable post mining regions through innovative land use

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

Part of: Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Heidi Pinkepank, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus / Institute for New Industrial Culture INIK (Speaker)

In the course of opencast mining, the natural soil became overburst, which had to be cleared as efficie...

11:00 AM

Industrie et formes urbaines : village-ouvrier, ville-usine, ville de compagnie, ville industrielle… Enjeux actuels et questions patrimoniales, approches croisées II

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545

Regular session

Gracia Dorel-Ferré, APIC (Moderator)

Simon Edelblutte, Université de Lorraine, LOTERR (Moderator)

L’activité industrielle est un puissant facteur de concentration de population. En témoignent les sites antiques ou médiévaux étudiés par les hi...

1:00 PM

Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge (III). A tour of the Soulanges Canal

6 hours, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Speaker)

Marianne Sigouin-Lebel (Other Participant)

The Soulanges Canal is an infrastructure, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, which was opened to maritime traffic in 1900, succeedi...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

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

9:00 AM

Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

RNDr. Pavel Bednar PhD., Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

Dr Milan Balaban, Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in Zlin in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, today being part of the Czech Republic, at ...

Path dependency and industrial culture heritage: The case of the Bata Shoe company towns

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Part of: Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Delft University of Technology (Speaker)

Between 1929 and 1935, the Bata Shoe Company planned the construction of a series of modern industrial satellite towns in Europe, Asia, and America...

9:30 AM

The Bata company towns - building, development, changes, continuity?

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

Part of: Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

Dr Milan Balaban, Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Speaker)

In our paper, we will try to outline the comparative development of the Bata company towns in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The Company be...

10:00 AM

Industrial culture and the company town: from Bata’s Fordist to creative city

20 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Part of: Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

RNDr. Pavel Bednar PhD., Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Speaker)

The old industrial medium-sized cities outside agglomeration areas undergo the transition from former drivers of change in terms of entrepreneurshi...

11:00 AM

Challenges and urban heritage of the Bata's company towns in the 21st century II

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

RNDr. Pavel Bednar PhD., Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

Dr Milan Balaban, Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Moderator)

The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in Zlin in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, today being part of the Czech Republic, at ...

1:30 PM

Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives

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

Available

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Stefan Berger (Speaker)

This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...