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Jean-Louis Delaet

Patrimoine industriel Wallonie-Bruxelles
Participates in 2 items

Né en 1958, master en histoire de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (1981), aspirant au Fonds national de la Recherche scientifique, Jean-Louis DELAET est ensuite archiviste de la Ville de Charleroi de 1986 à 2000 et, accessoirement, conservateur du musée de l’Industrie dès sa création en 1988. Nommé conseiller culturel de la Ville en 2001, il est aussitôt détaché en tant que directeur au Bois du Cazier, mis en valeur dans le cadre des Fonds structurels européens. Sous sa direction l'ancien site minier propose aujourd’hui un large panorama du développement industriel et social de la Wallonie, autour de la trilogie charbon-fer-verre : Espace 8 août 1956, musée de l’Industrie et musée du Verre. Avec les trois autres sites miniers majeurs de Wallonie, le Bois du Cazier est inscrit depuis l2012 sur la Liste du Patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO. Jean-Louis DELAET est auteur ou co-auteur de nombreux ouvrages et articles consacrés à la Révolution industrielle et au développement urbain et social du Pays de Charleroi. Il assume depuis 2007 la présidence de l’association « Patrimoine Industriel Wallonie-Bruxelles » (PIWB), dont l’objectif est la sauvegarde et la valorisation de ce patrimoine dans un souci aussi bien scientifique et technique que culturel et touristique. PIWB publie annuellement sa revue Des Usines et des Hommes.

Sessions in which Jean-Louis Delaet participates

miércoles 31 agosto, 2022

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viernes 2 septiembre, 2022

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Sessions in which Jean-Louis Delaet attends

domingo 28 agosto, 2022

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7:45 AM - 4:00 PM | 8 hours 15 minutos

A one-day itinerary on the opening day of the conference will allow visitors to discover Exporail in Saint-Constant, the Beauharnois hydroelectric plant and the Cotea...

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 the École technique de Montréal, founded in 1909, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal campus.

lunes 29 agosto, 2022

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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutos
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos

During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created strong regional industrial identities and mentalities, as well as industrial images and imaginaries in the eyes and minds of external observers. Such identities and ideas of coal would go on to shape industrial landscapes and communities.The papers presented in this session  investigate the social and economic changes that were triggered by ...

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos

This session presents case studies and policy reviews that contribute to ongoing debate and international dialogue on the role of planning systems and conservation practices in addressing the challenges of citizen engagement—conserving local interests, place attachments alongside physical remnants of industrial heritage. Over the past half century, we have witnessed the development and changing focuses of urban planning and conservation discourses addressing industrial heritage. Relevant p...

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

Industrial heritage and photography have a close relationship. Photography is a source for industrial archaeology. It sheds light on the links between people, their tools, their machines and their workplaces. Once the industrial activity is over, photography is also a tool for documenting and studying the sites. But far beyond that, captured by artists capable of transcending common representations, conferring on industrial remains the ugliness of an era that was thought to be over, photog...

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutos

In a traditional Quebec sugar shack atmosphere, enjoy a maple taffy rolled on snow in the purest tradition, accompanied by music of the occasion!

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

Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.

martes 30 agosto, 2022

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

This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial heritage as well as their impacts on communities and their territory.  The analysis of museums, cultural spaces, itineraries and urban developments will be an opportunity to highlight the questions of identity, meaning, relevance and impact that animate all the actors of this heritage in transformation.   

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos

This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned communities, usually centered around a single industry, where a company commissions an urban plan, builds housing for its workers, and sets up recreational, commercial, institutional or community facilities. While these are now endangered by a second wave of deindustrialization, we observe that, aside studies or monographs of individual towns that popu...

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos

As a "continent” country, in which industrialization began as early as the 19th century, Canada has seen through deindustrialization and urban redevelopment, parts of this heritage have been either altered or destroyed. Yet, Canada still possesses a very significant industrial heritage. With Canada being a confederation, approaches to the protection and the safeguard of its industrial heritage differs throughout the provinces and territories of the country. The same is true of i...

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

This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial heritage as well as their impacts on communities and their territory.  The analysis of museums, cultural spaces, itineraries and urban developments will be an opportunity to highlight the questions of identity, meaning, relevance and impact that animate all the actors of this heritage in transformation.   

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

Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being preserved and for whom? And, relatedly, what is the relationship between industrial heritage sites and the deindustrialized working-class communities that often adjoin them? The keynote will consider the ways that the preservation of Montreal’s Lachine Canal, Canada’s premier industrial heritage site, has enabled gentrification processes that have forc...

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

Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.

miércoles 31 agosto, 2022

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

Examples from several continents, in Europe, South America, North America, Turkey, show strong continuity in the objectives that govern the reuse of industrial buildings, for example the concern to take into account the industrial heritage as a resource for urban and territorial development, or the close links that it has with culture, whether it is used to house cultural facilities or more simply to bear witness to the history and memory of the place. Increasingly, policies for the reuse ...

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutos

This tour offers an excursion on a privatized deck of Montreal's bateau-mouche; a playful guided tour that takes in some of the city's industrial landmarks from the St. Lawrence River.The tour is priced to cover additional costs; the fee includes access to the bateau-mouche, the tour and a drink.Departure will be on foot from the conference venue; boarding is at 3:45 p.m. at the l...

jueves 1 septiembre, 2022

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viernes 2 septiembre, 2022

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial heritage in their respective countries. The presentations are based on the national reports that TICCIH has gathered for the 2022 World Congress, but may emphasize particular matters. These can range across several fields where industrial heritage plays a role – from academic research and other forms of knowledge production, to heritage management a...

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour