
Brian Rosa
I am an urban geographer and photographer living in Barcelona, Spain, where I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before relocating to Barcelona, I was Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Queens College) and Geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York. I was also affiliated with the Queens College MFA in Social Practice program and was founder and co-Director of the College’s City Lab. From 2013 to 2014, I was Lecturer in Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, a MRP in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a BA in Sociology from Clark University.
My academic work focuses on the transformation of deindustrializing urban districts and landscapes of urban infrastructure, political debates about urban heritage and preservation, gentrification, visual methods, and the spatial and cultural politics of urban transformation in Britain, the United States, and Spain.
I am co-editor, with Christoph Lindner, of Deconstructing the High Line (Rutgers UP 2017), and have published my work in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in English and Spanish.
My current research in Barcelona explores the conservation of smokestacks as monuments-typically, demolishing remaining industrial buildings and structures and leaving them in landscaped plazas- and seeks to understand how and why this urban design strategy has been replicated since the 1980s. Then, through a participatory methodology involving a photography exhibition at the History Museum of Barcelona, I am investigating what people who live, work, and visit working-class, former industrial districts in the city understand these monuments to symbolize, and to understand attitudes about the city's relation with its industrial heritage and history of urban redevelopment since the transition to democracy and its policy-led deindustrialization.
Documents
Sessions auxquelles Brian Rosa participe
- The smokestack in the plaza: Industrial monumentalization and gentrification in Barcelona UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Conférencier.ère Brian Rosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Is Industrial Heritage an Agent of Gentrification II?
- Though Barcelona has become a center for cultural tourism since the 1992 Olympic Games, the city has historically had an economy and identity shape...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Brian Rosa assiste
- Cérémonie d'ouverture
- Inscription req. UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 heures
- Joignez-vous aux organisateurs du congrès et aux membres du board de TICCIH pour un cocktail de bienvenue et quelques mots festifs de présentati...
- Cocktail
- The best defence is a strong offence. When civic society is the best advocate for the protection of industrial heritage. A case study in Barcelona UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Conférencier.ère Èlia Casals Alsina (Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement
- Many cities with a highly industrial past in Europe, the US and, more recently, the Global South have developed regeneration programs to overcom...
- Paper
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 heure
- Repas
- Le patrimoine industriel et la photographie UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Patrimoine industriel et photographie entretiennent des relations étroites. La photographie constitue une source de l’archéologie industrielle. ...
- Regular session
- Conférence publique: Le patrimoine industriel, un agent de gentrification?
- Disponibles Épuisé La vente de billets est terminée La vente de billets n'a pas encore débuté Vous avez acheté un billet UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Les efforts visant à préserver le patrimoine industriel s'inscrivent dans un contexte socio-économique et politi...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Industrial Landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory - The case of Lordelo do Ouro Woollen Mill, Porto, Portugal (1805-2020) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Conférencier.ère Mário Bruno Pastor (APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Industrial Landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II
- In this work we discuss the concept of industrial landscape and its geographical and heritage implications. We understand this concept is open and ...
- Paper
- Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the Arts UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Conférencier.ère Anne Scheinhardt (Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum)) |
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts
- Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the ArtsSince the end of the Industrial Age, the treatm...
- Paper
- Photography as a tool for industrial heritage research, acknowledge, and social engagement: The case study of Anina (Romania) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Conférencier.ère Oana Cristina Tiganea (Politecnico di Milano) |
- 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Identity, society, and industrial heritage preservation in Central and Eastern Europe
- In the last 10 – 15 years, a variety of bottom-up initiatives have emerged in Romania as a result of civic action, focusing on the safeguarding and...
- Paper
- Ruin and revival: Pittsburgh's city staircases as artifacts of alternative urban histories and contemporary narratives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Conférencier.ère Elena Clarke |
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes Partie de: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory III
- Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) has over 800 public staircases that began to appear on its hillsides at the peak of the region’s industrial developm...
- Paper
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- Disponibles Épuisé La vente de billets est terminée La vente de billets n'a pas encore débuté Vous avez acheté un billet UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- 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
- Visite lève-tôt. Le canal de Lachine : une plongée au cœur de l’histoire et de la commémoration
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- De sa construction à sa restauration, plongez dans l’histoire et le présent de ce lieu incontournable du patrimoine industriel canadien. Voie ma...
- Tour
- Is Industrial Heritage an Agent of Gentrification? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
- Regular session
- All the Pink Houses: pastel gentrification and international pastiche UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Conférencier.ère Elizabeth Carnegie (Northumbria University) | Présentateur.rice Derek Bryce (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Is Industrial Heritage an Agent of Gentrification?
- This paper critically assesses the phenomenon of rejuvenated post-industrial and urban spaces through the theoretical lenses of gentrification and ...
- Paper
- Abandoned industrial buildings as alternative places of creation: Montreal's underground art galleries - The case of 4000 Saint-Patrick UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Participant.e Myriam Joannette (Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III
- Urban exploration, urbex, consists of the unauthorized and non-profit visit of abandoned places (hospitals, churches, warehouses, industrial bui...
- Paper
- Perception of the potential of industrial culture UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Conférencier.ère Karsten Feucht (www.industriekultur.berlin) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III
- All over the world, committed monument conservationists point out cultural heritage sites endangered by...
- Paper
- The creative city despite the Creative City. Key factors for sustainable arts-led regeneration programs UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Conférencier.ère Èlia Casals Alsina (Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Is Industrial Heritage an Agent of Gentrification II?
- The concept ‘arts-led regeneration’ is nowadays one of the trendiest slogans for the transformation of contemporary cities. Despite this fact, i...
- Paper
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- Disponibles Épuisé La vente de billets est terminée La vente de billets n'a pas encore débuté Vous avez acheté un billet UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- 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
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Disponibles Épuisé La vente de billets est terminée La vente de billets n'a pas encore débuté Vous avez acheté un billet UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- 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
- Dîner de clôture
- Disponibles Épuisé La vente de billets est terminée La vente de billets n'a pas encore débuté Vous avez acheté un billet Usine C - Hall
- 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 3 heures
- Venez échanger sur les bons moments du congrès et célébrer vos découvertes scientifiques et professionnelles dans une ancienne fabrique de confi...
- Repas