
Dr. Eric Nay (B.Arch, Kentucky; M.Arch, Cornell; PhD, Toronto) has practiced architecture in New York City, Chicago and California and held multiple faculty and research appointments in Canada, the US and internationally. Eric teaches architectural history and theory as well as environmental and industrial design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a tenured Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto. His interdisciplinary research deals with a wide range of issues ranging from modern architecture as cultural heritage to decolonization and the geopolitical repercussions lurking beneath the intersection of sustainability, social justice and globalization on both practical and pedagogical levels.
Current work includes a number of international research projects well underway or continuing. Eric has been invited to participate with the Deutsches Nationalkomitee von ICOMOS in Berlin in March in a symposium meant to strategize how to enshrine the ouvre of Architect, Erich Mendelsohn, on the UNSECO World Heritage List with funding provided by the German government and research assistance funded by an OCADU Faculty of Arts & Science Grant. This follows up on his previous research on Le Corbusier's serial UNESCO WH listing (Nay 2018). Eric recently completed a second year as "Architect" working with the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) participating in the Architecture Connects Program in Dublin, Ireland. This program provides an ongoing collaborative series of in-class workshops and online courses within the Irish secondary school system meant to bring Architects and architecture into classrooms with teachers as collaborators. These programs are led by the IAF and Arts in Junior Cycle| Nah Ealaíonasat Sraith Shóisearach with funding provided by the Government of Ireland, Rialtas na hÉireann; Creative Ireland, Bunaíodh Éire; Arts in Junior Cycle| Nah Ealaíonasat Sraith Shóisearach; and ESCI, Ionaaid Taacaíocht Oideachais na hÉireann. Eric also presented a conference paper in October centred on notions of spatial justice, ironically titled, “In Defense of Defensible Space” at the Policing and Society Conference held at the University of Akureyri in Akureyri, Iceland. Háskólinn á Akureyri. Lastly, along with co-authors: Dr. Karina Landman and Dr. Kundani Makakavhule from the Dept. of Town and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Eric has a book proposal moving very slowly through the review process with Routledge (UK) titled, "The Meaning Of Decolonization in the Built Environment" that is finally moving forward after a year of Covidian delays and distractions.
Sessions in which Eric Nay participates
- Post-colonialism, geo-politics and architectural heritage in Arctic coal mining towns UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Speaker Eric Nay (OCAD University) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutos Part of: Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas IV
- This project focuses on the unique geo-political and postcolonial situationality in two very...
- Paper
- Post-industrial placeholders in the Melting Arctic UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- Speaker Eric Nay (OCAD University) |
- 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | 20 minutos Part of: Critical approaches: social power, sustainability and decolonizing industrial heritage III
- In this paper, I will explore the geopolitical utility of Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining village in Sbvalbard, as a post-industrial ruin an...
- Paper
Sessions in which Eric Nay attends
- Tour: The Lachine Canal with Heritage Montreal
- Signup required
- 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 2 hours
- Explore the banks of the Lachine Canal, the cradle of industry in Canada. Benefiting from access to hydraulic power, maritime and rail tran...
- Tour
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Héritage MontréalSponsor
- 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
- 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
- Break
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 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 stron...
- Regular session
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- Industrialization processes have been global from their very beginning. However, their interpretation still tends to be limited to specific loca...
- Regular session
- Old beams and new norms – The conservation of steel structures I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- This session is about the “hard facts” of conservation. It aims to draw together technical knowledge from related fields. Industrial conserva...
- Regular session
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Repas
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 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 stron...
- Regular session
- Changing landscape of industrial heritage education - Innovative and creative pedagogical approaches in industrial heritage learning UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- This roundtable will examine innovative and creative pedagogical approaches and partnerships that have created opportunities for experiential le...
- Roundtable
- Break
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- Industrialization processes have been global from their very beginning. However, their interpretation still tends to be limited to specific loca...
- Regular session
- Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 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 syste...
- Regular session
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 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 stron...
- Regular session
- Break : Sugar Shack Event
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
- Tickets required 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 minutos
- Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- The acceptance and belonging of industrial heritage and tourism in Central and Eastern Europe I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- According to Rodney Harrison, “in the spirit of greater cross-disciplinary engagement, there is […] a pressing need to pay more attention to non...
- Regular session
- Balance and perspectives of the conservation and reuse of the industrial heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- After 25 years of the launching of the first Latin American Industrial Heritage's organizations (México, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Perú...
- Regular session
- Break
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- The acceptance and belonging of industrial heritage and tourism in Central and Eastern Europe II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- According to Rodney Harrison, “in the spirit of greater cross-disciplinary engagement, there is […] a pressing need to pay more attention to non...
- Regular session
- 20th century company towns and urban planning, from creation to preservation II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 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 comm...
- Regular session
- Industry rediscovered: Technical knowledge as critical to understanding industrial sites in Eastern Canada II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- It is widely accepted that understanding a historic place is a critical first step to guide subsequent management and conservation. Industrial s...
- Regular session
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Repas
- Talk: overview of industrial heritage in Canada UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 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 ...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Break
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- Industrial Heritage Conservation and Climate Change UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- Past efforts to conserve and interpret industrial heritage have rarely acknowledged the role of industry causing damaging environmental chang...
- Roundtable
- Early bird tour: L'Écomusée du fier monde, musée d'histoire et musée citoyen
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- Visit of the permanent exhibition : À cœur de jour, grandeurs et misères d'un quartier populaire, which traces the history of one of the oldest ...
- Tour
- The role of mega-event to enhance industrial heritage in urban (re)development I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- The role of industrial heritage in urban development has been extensively acknowledged in guiding and legitimizing the policies and discourses i...
- Regular session
- Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- The legacy of open pit mining in general, and in the landscape of the Lusatian lignite district in Germany in particular, is a recultivated, res...
- Regular session
- Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- North America has a large number of historic canals, which have been closed to commercial shipping due in part to the evolution of transportatio...
- Regular session
- Industrie et formes urbaines : village-ouvrier, ville-usine, ville de compagnie, ville industrielle… Enjeux actuels et questions patrimoniales, approches croisées I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- L’activité industrielle est un puissant facteur de concentration de population. En témoignent les sites antiques ou médiévaux étudiés par les hi...
- Regular session
- Break
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- Industrie et formes urbaines : village-ouvrier, ville-usine, ville de compagnie, ville industrielle… Enjeux actuels et questions patrimoniales, approches croisées II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- L’activité industrielle est un puissant facteur de concentration de population. En témoignent les sites antiques ou médiévaux étudiés par les hi...
- Regular session
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Repas
- 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
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- This session addresses a perpetuating disjunction between conceptualisation of heritage and heritage making in heritage studies vis-a-vis herita...
- Regular session
- Break
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutos
- Pause
- Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutos
- The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
- Regular session