Mark Watson

Deputy Head of Industrial Heritage

Historic Environment Scotland

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Born in Dundee, Scotland, Mark took degrees in History (Oxford) and Industrial Archaeology in Ironbridge (Birmingham), worked in museums and then joined what is now Historic Environment Scotland, managing change to historic buildings and conservation areas across Scotland. He wrote the nomination for New Lanark’s inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List (inscribed 2001) and part of that for the Forth Bridge (2015). He has provided ICOMOS desk reviews of World Heritage nominations and carried out one field assessment. In at the start of two Europa Nostra award-winning projects, (Knockando and Stanley Mills in Scotland) he is currently the UK national rep for The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) and researches textile mill history, architecture, adaptive re-use and industrial heritage. He is collaborating on the TICCIH global thematic study on Textile Industries. "The Heritage of the Textile Industry" by Heike Oevermann, Bartosz M Walczak and Mark Watson (2022), available online: http://repozytorium.p.lodz.pl/handle/11652/4237

Documentos

Mark Watson.pdf (49.5KB)

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Darning the past, present and future of textile sites

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Regular session

Heike Oevermann, Universität Bamberg (Moderator)

Mark Watson, Historic Environment Scotland (Moderator)

The textile sector led industrialization and urbanization worldwide for nearly three centuries. Textile industries established global trade netw...

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TICCIH National Representatives fourth roundtable: Serbia, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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Hsiao-Wei Lin, Chung Yuan Christian University (Presenter)

Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Presenter)

Anica Draganic, University of Novi Sad (Presenter)

Mark Watson, Historic Environment Scotland (Presenter)

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Getaway in Montérégie

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Tour

Jean-Yves Bourdages (Speaker)

A one-day itinerary on the opening day of the conference will allow visitors to discover

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Opening ceremony

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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...

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

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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...

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Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?

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Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)

Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...

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

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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...

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Discover the shores of industrial Montreal by river boat

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Tour

This tour offers an excursion on a privatized deck of

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Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism

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Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Speaker)

In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...

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Darning the past, present and future of textile sites

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Regular session

Heike Oevermann, Universität Bamberg (Moderator)

Mark Watson, Historic Environment Scotland (Moderator)

The textile sector led industrialization and urbanization worldwide for nearly three centuries. Textile industries established global trade netw...

Urban Textile Mills: examples of industrial districts, company towns and urban planning in Europe

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Paper

Heike Oevermann, Universität Bamberg (Presenter)

Most of the industrial cities, districts, and company towns in a larger scale were planned and built in the late 19th and 20th century; at a tim...

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Architectural heritage of textile sites in Latvia: evaluation and possibilities for reinterpretation

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Paper

Liene Sondore, Riga Technical University (Presenter)

Anita Antenišķe, Faculty of Architecture of Riga Technical University (Presenter)

At the turn of the 19th and 20th century, the present capital of Latvia, Riga, was a major port and one of the most important industrial centres...

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Un patrimoine immatériel en réseau pour les « Manchester » d’Europe

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Paper

Pascale Nachez, Université de Haute-Alsace - Mulhouse - France (Speaker)

Les villes de Chemnitz (Allemagne), Lodz (Pologne), Manchester (Grande-Bretagne) et Mulhouse (France), ont connu un développement exceptionnel dans...

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"Meet the author": "The Heritage of the Textile Industry"

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Talk

Meet the authors Heike Oevermann and Mark Watson, who together with Bartosz Walczak completed the TICCCIH comparative t...

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Tour: A glimpse at Montreal's Centre-Sud Neigborhood

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Tour

The South Central district is a former industrial and working-class neighbourhood with a rich and unique heritage. The visit will allow us to di...

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Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp

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Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine

Cocktail

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TICCIH National representatives session

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Event

Hildebrand de Boer, European Route of Industrial Heritage - ERIH e.V. (Participant)

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...

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TICCIH National representatives session II

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Event

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...

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TICCIH General meeting of members

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Panel

At every World Congress, the international TICCIH community celebrates a General Assembly of its members. The event is open for any registered m...

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Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate

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Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)

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...