
General research background and interests
Gabriella has a cross-disciplinary background with a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Conservation (1996) and a Ph.D. in Architecture–Urban Planning and Design (2002). She did a postdoc in Melbourne in 2004 (The School of Architecture, Building and Planning) and she held a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, in 2005–2008, before taking a leave from research activities for approximately six years. She recently returned to research (part-time), focusing on the regeneration of urban industrial sites. Her interests convene in revealing and highlighting sociocultural values that are often present in dilapidated and stigmatized industrial areas. In the last couple of years Gabriella has utilized her private interest in SF novels for a deepened understanding of everyday lives and urban sustainable visions connected to the regeneration of industrial sites.
Sessions auxquelles Dr Gabriella Olshammar participe
- 11.00 Exploring the Urban Riverfront of Gothenburg: Ruin, History or Continuous Urban Asset?
- Participant.e Dr Gabriella Olshammar (University of Gothenburg) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- What happens to urban plans and visions when the object for such plans/visions transforms in front of people’s very eyes? On the one hand, outsi...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Dr Gabriella Olshammar assiste
- Welcome Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
- Pause
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
- 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
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
- Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- In many parts of Europe and North America, but also in Australia, Japan and parts of China, regions of heavy industry, in particular regions of coa...
- Regular session
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
- 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
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 heures
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 heure
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
- Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
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- Film Series: Exit Zero
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 20:00 - 21:35 | 1 heure 35 minutes
- Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...
- Event
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
- Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- The 1970s witnessed a flourishing of living experiments in space, place and community sharing broad ambitions to bring about transformed human soci...
- Regular session
- Post-Conference Tour: Gourmet Discovery Excursion in Montérégie | Sortie découverte gourmande de la Montérégie UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:45 - 18:45 | 10 heures
- ||| A piece of Gré des champs cheese, a bite of bread with cretons, a taste of chomeur pudding, a glass of cider and blueberry juice... th...
- Tour