
Èlia Casals Alsina
PhD student with a background as a cultural manager focused on performative arts; currently researching on culture-led policies developed in former industrial clusters in European urban contexts and their role in overcoming the challenges arising from deindustrialization processes.
She graduated in Musical Performance at ESMuC (Barcelona) and obtained a degree in Humanities and a master's degree in Cultural Management at the UOC, in all three cases with honours in the final thesis. In 2020 she was awarded a Santander-UdL pre-doctoral scholarship and began her PhD studies at the UdL (University of Lleida) as part of the "Territory, heritage and culture" programme under the direction of Dr Paül i Agustí. Since then, she teaches the subject "Cultural and city tourism" at this university.
She has done study stays and internships in Germany and Italy and has professional experience in the fields of music performance, teaching and cultural management.
Sessions in which Èlia Casals Alsina participates
- 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
- Many cities with a highly industrial past in Europe, the US and, more recently, the Global South have developed regeneration programs to overcom...
- 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?
- The concept ‘arts-led regeneration’ is nowadays one of the trendiest slogans for the transformation of contemporary cities. Despite this fact, i...
- Paper
Sessions in which Èlia Casals Alsina attends
- Book launch: Deindustrializing Montreal
- Signup required Bâtiment 7 - La Taverne
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 2 hours
- You are invited to the McGill-Queen’s University Press book launch of “
- Event
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...
- Cocktail
- Word of Welcome UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Event
- Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Roundtable
- Intangible industrial heritage – is that a thing ? Defining and recognizing intangible industrial heritage in Finland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Speaker Hanna Kaisa Melaranta (Teollisuusperintöseura/ TICCH Finland) |
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement II
- This presentation focuses on the concept of intangible industrial heritage and how its features can be recognized locally and nationally through co...
- Paper
- Narrating valuations – an urban strategy: Values of urban heritage as planning strategy in Vejle, a Danish working-class neighbourhood UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Speaker Kasper Albrektsen (Aarhus School of Archutecture) |
- 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement II
- In this paper, I will focus on the use of urban heritage as a planning tool in the transformation of an old working-class neighbourhood in the city...
- Paper
- Enjeux écologiques et citoyens de la définition patrimoniale des hybrides : le cas de la Boucle Noire à Charleroi UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Speaker Michael Bianchi (Université de Liège) |
- 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement III
- Comme l’ensemble des villes situées sur le « croissant industriel » ouest-européen, le pays de Charleroi (appelé aussi Pays Noir) a vécu l’arrêt pr...
- Paper
- Requalification, symbolic value and audience engagement of automotive heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Speaker Rossella Maspoli (Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design DAD) |
- 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement III
- The present study analyses the high symbolic value linked to car heritage, outlines the types and technologies of conservation and reuse interventi...
- Paper
- Photographers engaged in the preservation campaign of Flanders’ last coal processing plant in Beringen (Belgium) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Patrick Viaene (TICCIH-Belgium) |
- 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Photography and Industrial Heritage
- Few years after closure (1989) of the coalmine in Beringen, all constructions remaining were protected as "Historical Monument". Since legal protec...
- Paper
- Pub talk Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Cocktail
- Industrial heritage, different social powers and public policy in East Asia : a comparison of typical cases in China and Japan UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- Speaker Sunny Han Han (Landscape Architecture Design Institute of Wuhan University) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Critical approaches: social power, sustainability, decolonization and industrial heritage I
- East Asian countries frequently consider the diversification of social power and how to balance power relations through policy formulation and i...
- Paper
- Case studies in community-led and collaborative industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Community lies at the heart of the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization. From labor to landscapes and from social fabric to e...
- Regular session
- L'Usine, a cultural place in Châteauroux (France): Industrial heritage as a lever for re-engagement through citizen initative UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- Speaker Juliette Passilly |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Case studies in community-led and collaborative industrial heritage
- This paper proposes to study the case of L'AP, an artistic and cultural association located ...
- Paper
- Scalar sustainability in UNESCO’s industrial heritage : community geographies of the slate landscapes of Northwest Wales UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- Presenter Mark Allan Rhodes II (Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program) | Presenter Brooke Batterson (Michigan Technological University) | Presenter Kathryn Hannum (Michigan Tech University) | Presenter James Juip (Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program) | Presenter Larissa Juip (Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program) | Presenter Zoé Ketola (Michigan Technological University) | Presenter Timothy Maze (Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program) | Presenter Wandipa Mualefhe (Michigan Technological University) | Presenter Shardul Tiwari (Michigan Technological University) | Presenter Emma Wuepper |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Case studies in community-led and collaborative industrial heritage
- As a country ubiquitous with industry and the industrial revolution, the identity of the United Kingdom, and Wales specifically, is rooted into ...
- Paper
- La fabrique des savoirs et le musée industriel de la corderie Vallois : de la reconversion d'usines textiles à l'archéologie des paysages de l'industrie UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Morgane Moello (Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Museums and industrial culture: presentation and interpretation issues and cases I
- En Normandie, deux anciennes usines textiles reconverties en établissements culturels cristallisent les dynamiques d'impact industriel sur leur ...
- Paper
- Mining heritage and mining tourism of Czechia on the example of the UNESCO region Krušnohoří/Erzgebirge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Jakub Jelen (Charles University) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: The acceptance and belonging of industrial heritage and tourism in Central and Eastern Europe II
- Mining can be considered as one of the key human activities that affects the development of many regions, conditions the economic development of co...
- Paper
- Geek Heritage : Proposition of a new heritage concept UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- Speaker Takashi Itoh (Japan ICOMOS, Japan Industrial Archaeology Society) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective V
- Judging from our experience these past 30-40 years of visiting civil engineering heritage and industrial heritage, including ruins, we saw many thi...
- Paper
- Un patrimoine de l’anthropocène. Élaborer une mémoire de la modernité pour pouvoir en sortir UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- Speaker Nathanaël Wadbled (Université de Tour) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Critical approaches: social power, sustainability, decolonization and industrial heritage II
- Le patrimoine industriel aujourd’hui abandonné est l’occasion d’interroger et de repenser la pratique même du patrimoine. La pratique normale depui...
- Paper
- Company suburbs: how pastoral ideals and real estate investment extended corporate hierarchies into neighborhoods that continue to define North American Cities UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Presenter Sarah F Scarlett (Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation II
- The influence of twentieth-century industrial companies on city and town planning can be traced beyond the creation of isolated company towns an...
- Paper
- "Meet the author" from DePOT UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main Hall; DePOT table
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- During this lunch break, you can come and discuss with the author about his most recent book.This is happening at the DePOT Table in the ...
- Talk
- Shippensburg station: A laboratory for heritage-based community development UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- Presenter Allen Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University) |
- 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Critical approaches: social power, sustainability and decolonizing industrial heritage III
- Since 2017, I have been a participant-observer in an innovative project to use industrial heritage as a springboard for...
- Paper
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- Available 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
- Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Pub talk Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Innovations in planning processes for post industrial landscapes UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Speaker Markus Otto (Brandenburgische Technische Universität) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining
- Post industrial landscapes, esp. region such as post-mining and, even more, post open-pit mining areas do need innovative, specific and strategic p...
- Paper
- Creative clusters in China : from artists villages to the leisure city UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Helena Roux (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: The role of mega-event to enhance industrial heritage in urban (re)development I
- Renovating and enhancing industrial sites in the context of Olympic Games is a way of showing the full integration of such sites to the neoliberal ...
- Paper
- Concepts, political and social background and the responsible people and actors of industrial heritage in the GDR between the 1950s and the German reunification in 1990 UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Presenter Helmuth Albrecht (IWTG TU Bergakademie Freiberg) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Identity, society, and industrial heritage preservation in Central and Eastern Europe I
- Paper
- Developing a theoretical framework towards World Heritage recognition of post open-cast mining landscapes UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Presenter Lea Brönner (IHM - Institute for Heritage Management GmbH) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining
- Fossil resource extraction is a phenomenon which has dominated social and economic aspects of life for many generations and which has drasticall...
- Paper
- Industrial heritage as cultural hub: the case study of the Real Vinícola and Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos (Portugal) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- Speaker Beatriz Takahashi (CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory») |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Uses of industrial heritage: cases in transformation II
- This study is based on the discussion of industrial heritage developed during the final thesis of my ma...
- Paper
- Barcelone et son arrière-pays, un dialogue interrompu UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- Speaker Gracia Dorel-Ferré (APIC) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Industrie et formes urbaines : village-ouvrier, ville-usine, ville de compagnie, ville industrielle… Enjeux actuels et questions patrimoniales, approches croisées II
- Il s'agit de montrer comment l'extension de Barcelone, au XIX siècle, rend compte non seulement de sa croissance mais aussi et surtout de sa main m...
- Paper
- “Industrial Abbey” in 21st century Belgium: issues and prospects of a forgotten heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Mathilde Macaux (University of Namur (UNamur)) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II
- The rural landscape of Belgium abounds with ancient monasteries not far from which you can perceive, occasionally hidden under the vegetation, some...
- Paper
- Preservation of place identity through (re)interpretation of the meaning of industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Speaker Anica Draganic (University of Novi Sad) |
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Identity, society, and industrial heritage preservation in Central and Eastern Europe III
- According to the identity process theory (Breakwell, 1986), identity is perceived as a dynamic, social product of the interaction between memory ca...
- 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
- Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the ArtsSince the end of the Industrial Age, the treatm...
- Paper
- L’urbex, une expérience re-créative du patrimoine industriel délaissé UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Robin Lesné (Laboratoire TVES (ULR 4477)) |
- 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Patrimoine industriel et construction culturelle des corps
- Qui n’a pas souvenir, dans son enfance ou après, d’être parti.e à l’aventure dans la maison « hantée », l’ancien atelier abandonné ou le bunker mil...
- 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
- Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) has over 800 public staircases that began to appear on its hillsides at the peak of the region’s industrial developm...
- Paper
- L’alimentation durable, cheval de Troie d’une gentrification urbaine? Le cas du projet TIF UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Alexandre Fauquette (Université de Lille) |
- 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Patrimoine industriel et construction culturelle des corps
- "We must raise our heads and reveal the richness of our industrial past, which is what we want to do with our food court"; "Let's not forget tha...
- Paper
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- Available 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
- In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Pub talk Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- 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?
- This paper critically assesses the phenomenon of rejuvenated post-industrial and urban spaces through the theoretical lenses of gentrification and ...
- Paper
- New strategy for industrial heritage regeneration from the concept of mosaic art: case of Hanyang Iron Factory UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Yuqiu Liu (TONGJI UNIVERSITY) |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?
- With the development of urbanism, cities in China have attached great importance on “Urban Regeneration...
- Paper
- Fixed typology, fluid functions, continuous narrative: Spacious and intangible narratives forming a new planning strategy in Vestbyen, a Danish working-class neighbourhood UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Kasper Albrektsen (Aarhus School of Archutecture) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?
- In addition to abandoned industrial complexes, deindustrialization left its working-class neighbourhoods in an identity vacuum. Since deindustriali...
- 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?
- Though Barcelona has become a center for cultural tourism since the 1992 Olympic Games, the city has historically had an economy and identity shape...
- Paper
- Stop gentrification. Adaptive reuse for social housing purposes UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Rafaela Citron (USP) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?
- In the UK and in many other European and Noth American countries, industrial sites have been regenerated over the past decades and turned into v...
- Paper
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- Available 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
- This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
- Signup required Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
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Écomusée du fier mondeSponsor
- Early bird tour: Walking the Postindustrial Lachine Canal (postponed to Friday)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Walkers will meet at the entrance (there is only one) of Lionel Groulx Metro and from there walk along the canal to t...
- Tour
- Lunch : barbecue event with Tout un Fumoir
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Repas
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Available 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
- 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...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée