Congratulations to longtime DePOT research associate Gui Pozzer who has been awarded the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s Community Engagement Award for his project “Crafting the Past" which will result in a Community Creative Heritage Toolkit.

🔍 Read our new blog: Riccardo Rosa explores the history of Naples' Bagnoli colmata, tracing its transformation from a steel industry platform to a contested post-industrial space. It examines the tensions between environmental restoration, urban regeneration, and new forms of extractivism.

👀 Interested in Environmental Pasts and Futures in Mining? Watch the recorded session from the DePOT Conference to learn more! Watch it here:

🙌Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s conference in Montreal on (Un)Just transitions. We’re already looking forward to next year’s conference.

🎨This evening, the 4th Space hosted the vernissage of “Dirty Old Town,” where the artists and curator were able to present their work. At the same time, the event featured this year's artists-in-residence, Nina Vroamen and Hervé Demers.

🔉This morning, we welcomed our amazing keynote speaker, Lianne Leddy, on "Resurgence and Reckoning: Anishinaabe Activism and the Environmental Legacies of Cold War Extraction"

📕Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting the launch of the first DePOT volume, *The Politics of Industrial Closure*, with its contributors. We also presented several edited volumes listed in our program, which were followed by lively discussions and exchanges throughout the evening.

really excited about the start of the DePOT @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Summer Institute in Montreal, such a great program (which will definitely keep me awake after my overnight flight from Calgary)

🎨 Join us for the opening reception of Dirty Old Town: Deindustrial Art next week! 📍 4TH SPACE, J.W. McConnell Building, Concordia University 📅 June 18, 4–6 PM Come explore the exhibition, meet the artists, and continue the conversation on the environmental legacies of industrial change.

📢 Just a few days left until DePOT annual conference! “(Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment” Montreal, Canada, June 18-20, 2026 We look forward to welcoming you and discovering the presentations, discussions, and new collaborations that will emerge from this year’s event.

Spent two great days researching industrial restructuring at the OECD in Paris. Huge thanks to the fantastic Ruud and Maxime for all their help! This material is going to be very useful in my book on "The Runaway Shop: How Corporations Weaponized Geography Against Trade Unions." Now on to London!

🎨The AIR Program is welcoming new applications for 2026-2027! AIR will fund projects that address the relationships between industrial heritage sites and the working-class areas that often adjoin them. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 Read the full call for applications on our website:

NEW BLOG! Read Steven High's latest blog on the Tricofil experience in Saint-Jérôme: a significant attempt at worker self-management in the 1970s, between dreams of national liberation and economic realities.

We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation

NEW BLOG! Read Clarence Hatton-Proulx latest blog, examining how urban administrations played a central role in shaping how deindustrialization unfolded in Montreal.

🎨 ARTISTS in RESIDENCY. We are pleased to welcome Nina Vroemen and Hervé Demers to the DePOT project, whose work will be featured at this year’s DePOT conference in Montréal, Canada. Welcome and congratulations! Read their biography and project description:

NEW BLOG! Read Nina Vodopivec's latest blog, examining how the experiences of Slovenian industrial (textile) workers were systematically silenced during the post-socialist transition, with their demands dismissed as “nostalgia” while deindustrialization was portrayed as inevitable.

Happy to announce the publication of The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories, which is a collective outcome of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Huge thanks to Stefan Berger and all 26 contributors. It was a beautiful process of collaborative research and writing.

The Politics of Industrial Closure

The Politics of Industrial Closure explores how the political consequences of neoliberal globalization have led to the decline of industrial regions across W...

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Roundtable: Don't forget that we are hosting a roundtable this Thursday on Political Abandonment, Silencing, and Absence in deindustrialization. Register here:

Roundtable: Political Abandonment Silencing and Absence

Join us for the March Roundtable to discuss Political Abandonment Silencing and Absence in deindustrialization

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‼️The updated program, in both French and English, for our upcoming conference in Montreal this June is now available! Please use the link below to download the bilingual version from our website. DéPOT is excited to see you in Montreal!

Don't forget our environmental workshop tomorrow morning on Gentrification and Greening! Register on our Eventbrite link:

DePOT Environmental Workshop: Gentrification and Greening

The environment initiative is welcoming you for a workshop on Gentrification and Greening!

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BLOG: Read our latest blog post by Philippine d'Halleine, a master's student at Concordia University. Philippine reviews Romain Castellesi's impressive publication, "Savoir Commencer un Grève," published by Agone Editions, in a detailed book review.

WORKSHOP - March 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment workshop to discuss ongoing research!

DePOT Environmental Workshop: Gentrification and Greening

The environment initiative is welcoming you for a workshop on Gentrification and Greening!

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Join us this Friday for a roundtable on Industrial Heritage! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1980405314...

New blog for February! Dylan Brewerton-Harper, a postgraduate student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dylan is interested in the “half-life” of the former shipyard, adorned with monuments, sculptures, and murals commemorating Port Glasgow's industrial past.

ROUNDTABLE - February 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment roundtable to discuss ongoing research!

Labor and Working Class Environmentalism

Join us for our first Deindustrialization and the Environment working group discussion!

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‼️The program, in both French and English for our upcoming conference in Montreal this June is now available! Please find the link below to our website to download both the English and French version. DéPOT is excited to see you in Montreal!

Happy New Year!🎊 Read our latest blog post by Melissa Meade from Seton Hall University. Learn about how public memorialization struggles to center workers in the narrative of industrial history.

Appel à candidatures - Devenez le nouveau ou la nouvel artiste en résidence de DePOT ! Une bourse de 16 000 dollars canadiens est offerte à un.e artiste ou à un groupe d'artistes explorant le thème de cette année, « La désindustrialisation et l'environnement ». Postulez avant le 15 janvier !

Artistes résidents – Deindustrialization

Le Programme d’Artistes résidents (AR) pour le projet DéPOT soutient le développement de projets créatifs qui abordent des thématiques liées aux racines historiques de la désindustrialisation et les…

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Call for applications - Become DePOT's new Artist in Residence! CA$ 16,000 in funding is available for an artist or group of artists exploring this year's theme of Deindustrialization and the Environment - Apply by January 15!

Artists in Residence – Deindustrialization

The DePOT Artist in Residence (DePOT AIR) program supports creative engagements with the historical roots and lived experience of deindustrialization. We are interested in proposals that range across…

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