Lucie Morisset. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage at the Université du Québec à Montréal, trained as an architectural historian, Lucie K. Morisset conducts research on the 20th century, with a particular focus on company towns and aluminium. She has published several works on company towns around the world, including in the book Architetture del lavoro. Città e paesaggi del patrimonio industriale (Luigi Fontana and Andrea Gritti eds) and works closely in Canada with policy makers in the protection and enhancement of urban heritage sites, including the town of Arvida in Canada. She is also curator of exhibitions on industrial heritage, such as the new Canadian Aluminium Museum. She also takes a particular interest in industrial heritage from a social justice perspective and proposes rethinking public policy through the lens of a concept she explores in her more recent work: the right to heritage. She is a member of the Board of the AQPI, of TICCIH and of ICOMOS Canada.
Title of the lecture: Everything we’ve always wanted to know about company towns but have not yet asked
Antonio Monte. Architect, PhD, researcher of the CNR-Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC). Vice president of the Italian Association for Industrial Archaeological Heritage (AIPAI), he is co-director of the journal Patrimonio industriale, published by Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (ESI) and co-director of the series Patrimonio industriale. Conoscenza & progetto for the publisher Edifir Edizioni Firenze. He deals with the processes of knowledge, patrimonialization, conservation and enhancement of industrial assets, of History, Museums and Corporate Archives. Author of numerous publications in the sector, he has been designer and works director in the recovery and repurposing of industrial monuments. Professor of Science of conservation and architectural restoration of heritage at the University of Basilicata, he was also a professor at the Master in Conservation, Management and Enhancement of Industrial Heritage, University of Padova, for the teaching of Inventory and cataloguing of the assets of industrial civilization. He has taught History of artisanal production and Industrial Archaeology at the University of Salento; History of productive settlements and industrial heritage, Architecture and restoration for the built heritage, and Landscape architecture and industrial heritage at the University of Basilicata. Member of the Teaching Board of the PhD Cities and Landscapes: Architecture, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, History and Resources-DiUSS Department-University of Basilicata, Matera campus. From 2000 to 2022 he was the creator, carried out the research and was the scientific coordinator of the MAI-Museo ArcheoIndustriale di Terra d’Otranto in Maglie (LE)
Renato Covino. National President of the Italian Association for Industrial Archaeological Heritage (AIPAI) from 2006 to 2013. Full Professor of Economic History at the University of Perugia, where he also taught Contemporary History and Industrial Archaeology. Member of the Teaching Board of the PhD in History at the University of Perugia, as well as director of numerous research and enhancement projects of industrial heritage. He has held roles of great relevance in the academic and scientific fields, including Among his most significant projects are the coordination of the “Daily Bread” project (2018-2019)-Fondazione Cariparo, and various initiatives for the census and enhancement of industrial heritage in Umbria, Puglia and other Italian regions. He directed the “Pilot project for the conservation of industrial heritage in Puglia” in San Cesario di Lecce, and the census of the industrial heritage of the province of Brindisi. He has also held leadership roles in cultural and scientific institutions, including vice president of the Institute for the History of Contemporary Umbria (ISUC) and director of journals such as “Patrimonio Industriale”. He is also director of the series “Storia e Territorio” for the publisher Il Formichiere, and co-director of the series on Archaeology and Industrial Heritage for Marsilio Editori. His work has focused on the protection and enhancement of historical-industrial heritage, with the aim of preserving and promoting the historical and cultural memory of industrial heritage in Italy.
Title of the lecture: Le stagioni del Patrimonio industriale del Mezzogiorno le storie, le macchine le architetture
Valérie Nègre is professor of history of technology at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University where she coordinates the Erasmus mundus master’s degree program “Techniques, Heritage, Industrial Territory” with Marco Bertilorenzi (University of Padua) and Antonia Conde (University of Evora). Her research focuses on the history of architecture and construction (18th-19th century). Her work contributes to the identification and description of craft knowledge (L’Art et la matière. Les artisans, les architectes et la technique (1770-1830), 2016). Her recent studies focus on the representation of techniques. She curated the exhibition and the catalogue L’Art du Chantier. Construire et démolir du XVIe au XXIe siècles (Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2018) and edited with J. Baudry Dessiner la technique. Pensée et discours visuels (XVIe-XIXe siècle), 2024. Valérie Nègre is co-director of the THERESA project on the history of the construction, maintenance, and restoration of brick masonry in Occitania and co-editor of the journal Aedificare. International Journal of Construction History.
Title of the lecture: The construction site as a form of ephemeral industrial architecture