
Johanna Björkman is an art historian specializing in architectural history. She received her PhD at the University of Helsinki in May 2019. Her work was entitled The Success of the Forest Industry in Architecture. Architect W. G. Palmqvist cooperation with the companies in the industrial communities in the 1920s and 1930s. The dissertation connected the architecture she researched to the political, economic and cultural contexts of the studied time frame. Björkman has an interest in industrial architecture and was associated with a Nordic-Baltic research group that published the book Industry and modernism: Companies, architecture, and identity in the Nordic and Baltic countries during the high-industrial period (2007).
Björkman works as deputy Head of Environment in the Helsinki City Museum. She has worked with built cultural heritage and conservation questions for over fifteen years in museums and at the Finnish Heritage Agency. Björkman has also trained herself in architectural conservation and completed a one-year post-master’s course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden.
Main publications:
- Metsäteollisuuden menestyksen jälki arkkitehtuurissa. Arkkitehti W.G. Palmqvistin ja yhtiöiden yhteistyö tehdasyhdyskunnissa 1920- ja 1930-luvulla. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto 2019. [Disseratation: The Success of the Forest Industry in Architecture. - Architect W. G. Palmqvist co-operation with the companies in the industrial communities in the 1920s and 1930s].
- Post-War Modernism in Helsinki City Centre: Heritage or Material for re-use? In Docomomo 14th International conference proceedings 2016. Adaptive reuse, the modern movement towards the future.
- Architects realizing Gösta Serlachius' visions in the industrial community of Mänttä, Kirjassa Industry and Modernism. Companies, Architecture and Identity in the Nordic and Baltic Countries during the High-Industrial Period, toim. Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna. Helsinki: SKS, 2007.
Documents
Sessions auxquelles Johanna Björkman participe
- Finnish company towns of forest industry as model communities UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Conférencier.ère Johanna Björkman (Helsinki City Museum) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Les villes de compagnie du XXe siècle et l'urbanisme, de la création à la conservation
- The forest industry was at the forefront of Finland’s rapid industrialization in the beginning of the 20th century. Industrialization created econo...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Johanna Björkman 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
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- 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 UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- This session presents case studies and policy reviews that contribute to ongoing debate and international dialogue on the role of planning syste...
- Regular session
- Conférence publique: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
- 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
- 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
- Les villes de compagnie du XXe siècle et l'urbanisme, de la création à la conservation UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned comm...
- Regular session
- 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
- 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