Brian Rosa

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in Urban Geography, Department of Humanities

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Participates in 1 Session

I am an urban geographer and photographer living in Barcelona, Spain, where I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before relocating to Barcelona, I was Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Queens College) and Geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York. I was also affiliated with the Queens College MFA in Social Practice program and was founder and co-Director of the College’s City Lab. From 2013 to 2014, I was Lecturer in Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, a MRP in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a BA in Sociology from Clark University.

My academic work focuses on the transformation of deindustrializing urban districts and landscapes of urban infrastructure, political debates about urban heritage and preservation, gentrification, visual methods, and the spatial and cultural politics of urban transformation in Britain, the United States, and Spain.

I am co-editor, with Christoph Lindner, of Deconstructing the High Line (Rutgers UP 2017), and have published my work in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in English and Spanish.

My current research in Barcelona explores the conservation of smokestacks as monuments-typically, demolishing remaining industrial buildings and structures and leaving them in landscaped plazas- and seeks to understand how and why this urban design strategy has been replicated since the 1980s. Then, through a participatory methodology involving a photography exhibition at the History Museum of Barcelona, I am investigating what people who live, work, and visit working-class, former industrial districts in the city understand these monuments to symbolize, and to understand attitudes about the city's relation with its industrial heritage and history of urban redevelopment since the transition to democracy and its policy-led deindustrialization.

Documentos

Rosa TICCIH.docx (15.44KB)

Sessions in which Brian Rosa participates

Jueves 1 septiembre, 2022

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

11:00 AM

The smokestack in the plaza: Industrial monumentalization and gentrification in Barcelona

20 minutos, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Brian Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Speaker)

Though Barcelona has become a center for cultural tourism since the 1992 Olympic Games, the city has historically had an economy and identity shape...

Sessions in which Brian Rosa attends

Domingo 28 agosto, 2022

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

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...

Lunes 29 agosto, 2022

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

11:30 AM

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

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

Part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement I

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Èlia Casals Alsina, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture (Speaker)

Many cities with a highly industrial past in Europe, the US and, more recently, the Global South have developed regeneration programs to overcom...

12:30 PM

Lunch

1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

3:30 PM

Photography and Industrial Heritage

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

Laurent Sauvage (Moderator)

Industrial heritage and photography have a close relationship. Photography is a source for industrial archaeology. It sheds light on the links b...

Martes 30 agosto, 2022

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

5:30 PM

Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?

1 hour 30 minutos, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

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

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...

Miércoles 31 agosto, 2022

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

11:00 AM

Industrial Landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory - The case of Lordelo do Ouro Woollen Mill, Porto, Portugal (1805-2020)

20 minutos, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Mário Bruno Pastor, APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT (Speaker)

In this work we discuss the concept of industrial landscape and its geographical and heritage implications. We understand this concept is open and ...

1:30 PM

Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the Arts

20 minutos, 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts I

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

Paper

Anne Scheinhardt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum) (Speaker)

Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the ArtsSince the end of the Industrial Age, the treatm...

2:00 PM

Photography as a tool for industrial heritage research, acknowledge, and social engagement: The case study of Anina (Romania)

20 minutos, 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Part of: Identity, society, and industrial heritage preservation in Central and Eastern Europe III

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

Paper

Oana Cristina Tiganea, Politecnico di Milano (Speaker)

In the last 10 – 15 years, a variety of bottom-up initiatives have emerged in Romania as a result of civic action, focusing on the safeguarding and...

Ruin and revival: Pittsburgh's city staircases as artifacts of alternative urban histories and contemporary narratives

30 minutos, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory III

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Elena Clarke (Speaker)

Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) has over 800 public staircases that began to appear on its hillsides at the peak of the region’s industrial developm...

5:30 PM

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

1 hour 30 minutos, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available

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

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...

Jueves 1 septiembre, 2022

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

7:00 AM

Early bird tour. Lachine Canal: A walk through history and commemoration or The Lachine Canal: now and then

1 hour 30 minutos, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Signup required

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

Tour

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Presenter)

Matthieu Paradis, Agence Parcs Canada (Presenter)

From its construction to its restoration, immerse yourself in the now and then of this key Canadian industrial heritage site. A country’s

9:00 AM

Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

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

The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...

All the Pink Houses: pastel gentrification and international pastiche

20 minutos, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Elizabeth Carnegie, Northumbria University (Speaker)

Derek Bryce, University of Strathclyde (Presenter)

This paper critically assesses the phenomenon of rejuvenated post-industrial and urban spaces through the theoretical lenses of gentrification and ...

11:00 AM

Abandoned industrial buildings as alternative places of creation: Montreal's underground art galleries - The case of 4000 Saint-Patrick

20 minutos, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III

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

Paper

Myriam Joannette, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patirmoine urbain (Participant)

Urban exploration, urbex, consists of the unauthorized and non-profit visit of abandoned places (hospitals, churches, warehouses, industrial bui...

11:30 AM

Perception of the potential of industrial culture

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

Part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III

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

Paper

Karsten Feucht, www.industriekultur.berlin (Speaker)

All over the world, committed monument conservationists point out cultural heritage sites endangered by...

12:00 PM

The creative city despite the Creative City. Key factors for sustainable arts-led regeneration programs

20 minutos, 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

Part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Èlia Casals Alsina, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture (Speaker)

The concept ‘arts-led regeneration’ is nowadays one of the trendiest slogans for the transformation of contemporary cities. Despite this fact, i...

1:30 PM

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

1 hour 30 minutos, 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...

Viernes 2 septiembre, 2022

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

3:30 PM

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

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

Available

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

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...

6:30 PM

Closing dinner

3 hours, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Available

Usine C - Hall

Repas

Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...