Katarzyna Piotrowska
Katarzyna Piotrowska obtained a doctoral degree in architecture and urban planning in the field of landscape architecture at the Kraków University of Technology and a master's degree in the same field at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She started her professional career in 1999 in the Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscapes in Warsaw, which she continued in the National Institute of Cultural Heritage. She was responsible, among other issues, for implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, heading the Centre for World Heritage as well as representing Poland in the World Heritage Committee during Poland’s term of office. Currently, she works for Kraków Municipality as deputy director of the Department of Culture and National Heritage.
Sessions in which Katarzyna Piotrowska attends
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
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-...
