
Gisèle Gantois
Architect MSc in Conservation, Lecturer, PhD Candidate
Department of Architecture
Participe à 1 Session
Gisèle Gantois is an architect, specialized in the restoration and adaptive reuse of small-scale rural heritage. She teaches in the International Masters, faculty of architecture at the KU Leuven, campus Ghent, Belgium.
She’s doing research on what methods and tools can be found to explore, to detect, to unveil and to map the intangible of the tangible to develop cultural heritage and its context differently by understanding the actual cultural, social and ecological significance for the individual or the community today. PhD research project: Gantois, G. (2014-2018) The Architect - Heritage Practitioner as Storyteller. Tracing the Ecological and Cultural Significance of rural built heritage of local importance in the framework of adaptive (re-)use.’ Promoters Prof. Yves Schoonjans and prof. Krista De Jonge.
She is author (with Yves Schoonjans as co-author) of The architect as mediator between the built heritage and the social construct. (2014), The Nameless Local. (2015) and Storytelling as strategy to envision the changing meaning of heritage from an object-focused approach towards an intertwined contextual one. (2015) and editor (with Prof. Dr. Yves Schoonjans and Prof. Dr. Kris Scheerlinck) of The Cuesta of the Rupel Region; New Challenges for its Cultural Heritage. Volume I and II (2015)
Documents
A Four Hundred Meters Walk.pdf (53.42KB)
Sessions auxquelles Gisèle Gantois participe
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Small-Scale Heritage: The Canary in the Coal Mine
- Participant.e Gisèle Gantois (Department of Architecture) | Participant.e Yves Schoonjans (Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Gisèle Gantois assiste
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Cocktail
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- 14.00 The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour Heritage Project: Contestation or Contentment?
- Participant.e Laura Murray (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant.e Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages
- Participant.e Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)
- Participant.e Manon Istasse (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne
- Participant.e Marie-Dina Salvione (École de design, UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 11.00 La société civile russe face à l’architecture soviétique, ou comment patrimonialiser un héritage controversé
- Participant.e Julie Deschepper (INALCO) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

7:00
7:00
- Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Tour
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 heures
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
15:30
15:30
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

19:00
19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
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9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- The Lost Stories Project Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation