
Mengke Zhang
Mengke Zhang is a PhD candidate at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the Institute for Area and Global Studies, and is involved in the SNSF project entitled “Uses of cultural heritage at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of 2022.” She holds a Master of Arts in China Development Studies from the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, and a BA in Chinese from Zhejiang University. Her masters dissertation discusses the heritage discourse in urban China with a case study of the Hangzhou Section of the Grand Canal. Previously, she has been involved in research projects related to the spatial and social transformation of the Chinese danwei system, as well as live music and the digital platform in contemporary China. Her research interests span across urban, cultural and social geography, especially in the fields of urban heritage conservation, culture-led regeneration, and creative and cultural industries in cities.
Her publications:
Zhang, M., & Lenzer Jr, J. H. (2020). Mismatched canal conservation and the authorized heritage discourse in urban China: a case of the Hangzhou Section of the Grand Canal. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(2), 105-119.
Zhang, M., Zhang, T., Xiao, Z., & Chai, Y. (2021). Property rights redistribution and the spatial evolution of the Chinese danwei compound: a case study in Beijing. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36(4), 1585-1602.
translation_fallback: Sessions in which Mengke Zhang translation_fallback: participates
Translation_fallback: miércoles 31 agosto, 2022
- The state-led use of industrial heritage in mega-events in China UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- Speaker Mengke Zhang (EPFL) |
- translation_fallback: 11:30 AM - translation_fallback: 11:50 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: The role of mega-event to enhance industrial heritage in urban (re)development II
- This paper investigates the role of industrial heritage during mega-events in a Chinese context. By adopting a comparative analysis of the use of i...
- Paper
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- Opening ceremony
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- translation_fallback: 5:00 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 2 translation_fallback: 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
- Word of Welcome UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 9:30 AM - translation_fallback: 10:00 AM | 30 minutos
- Event
- Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 10:00 AM - translation_fallback: 11:00 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour
- Roundtable
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 12:30 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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 I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 12:30 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Changing landscape of industrial heritage education - Innovative and creative pedagogical approaches in industrial heritage learning UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 3:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- This roundtable will examine innovative and creative pedagogical approaches and partnerships that have created opportunities for experiential le...
- Roundtable
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 3:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Photography and Industrial Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Industrial heritage and photography have a close relationship. Photography is a source for industrial archaeology. It sheds light on the links b...
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 5:30 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Case studies in community-led and collaborative industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 10:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Community lies at the heart of the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization. From labor to landscapes and from social fabric to e...
- Regular session
- Critical approaches: social power, sustainability, decolonization and industrial heritage I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 10:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Drawing on case studies from diverse social, cultural, and political contexts the papers in this session discuss...
- Regular session
- Critical approaches: social power, sustainability, decolonization and industrial heritage II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 12:30 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Drawing on case studies from diverse social, cultural, and political contexts the papers in this session discuss...
- Regular session
- Talk: overview of industrial heritage in Canada UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 3:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective VI UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Critical approaches: social power, sustainability and decolonizing industrial heritage III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Drawing on case studies from diverse social, cultural, and political contexts the papers in this session discuss...
- Regular session
- La patrimonialisation du tourisme comme industrie ? Pertinence et limite d’un élargissement de la notion de patrimoine industrie au cas des stations de ski alpines UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- Speaker Anne Dalmasso (Université grenoble Alpes LARHRA) |
- translation_fallback: 4:00 PM - translation_fallback: 4:20 PM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective VI
- La notion de patrimoine industriel a été construite autour de la volonté de sauvegarder et de donner sens aux traces, matérielles et immatérielles,...
- Paper
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 5:30 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Translation_fallback: miércoles 31 agosto, 2022
- The role of mega-event to enhance industrial heritage in urban (re)development I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 10:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- 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
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 3:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 5:30 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Translation_fallback: jueves 1 septiembre, 2022
- Early bird tour. Lachine Canal: A walk through history and commemoration or The Lachine Canal: now and then
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- translation_fallback: 7:00 AM - translation_fallback: 8:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- From its construction to its restoration, immerse yourself in the now and then of this key Canadian industrial heritage site. A country’s
- Tour
- Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 10:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: 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
- Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 10:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
- Regular session
- Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 12:30 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
- Regular session
- Big-data geospatial heritage infrastructures and industrial heritage
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R910 (access from the metro floor)
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 12:30 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- The use of industrial heritage is a profoundly important factor in the process of creating a sustainable economic, social, and political future ...
- Workshop
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Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Programtranslation_fallback: Sponsor
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 3:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Tour: A glimpse at Montreal's Centre-Sud Neigborhood
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:30 PM | 2 translation_fallback: hours
- 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...
- Tour
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Écomusée du fier mondetranslation_fallback: Sponsor
- Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
- translation_fallback: Signup required Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
- translation_fallback: 5:30 PM - translation_fallback: 7:30 PM | 2 translation_fallback: hours
- Cocktail
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Écomusée du fier mondetranslation_fallback: Sponsor
Translation_fallback: viernes 2 septiembre, 2022
- Early bird tour: Walking the Postindustrial Lachine Canal (postponed to Friday)
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- translation_fallback: 7:00 AM - translation_fallback: 8:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Walkers will meet at the entrance (there is only one) of Lionel Groulx Metro and from there walk along the canal to t...
- Tour
- TICCIH National representatives session UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
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- In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
- Event
- TICCIH National representatives session II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
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- In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
- Event
- Lunch : barbecue event with Tout un Fumoir
- translation_fallback: 12:00 PM - translation_fallback: 1:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour
- To keep you in shape for the TICCIH General Meeting, we are offering a special lunch, prepared on site on a smokehouse by Ron Wiser. Her...
- Repas
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- 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...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Closing dinner
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket Usine C - Hall
- translation_fallback: 6:30 PM - translation_fallback: 9:30 PM | 3 translation_fallback: hours
- Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...
- Repas
Translation_fallback: sábado 3 septiembre, 2022
- Tour: The Angus shops and Rosemont with Heritage Montreal
- translation_fallback: Signup required
- translation_fallback: 2:00 PM - translation_fallback: 4:00 PM | 2 translation_fallback: hours
- Uncover the vestiges of the Canadian Pacifie Railway tracks and the former Angus Shops, which played integral raies in the industrial and reside...
- Tour
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Héritage Montréaltranslation_fallback: Sponsor