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Danielle Doucet is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she has taught since 2001. She holds a PhD completed in 2011 on Montreal’s public art discourse in the 1950s, focusing on mural production. She also serves as an associate researcher at the Canada Research Chair in Built Heritage at the Université de Montréal, contributing to the inventory of public art in modern Montreal schools. Her work bridges academic research and heritage activism.
Her research interests center on the production and heritage designation of modern and contemporary Quebec public art. She employs interdisciplinary methods from art history, sociology of art, and discourse analysis to study how public art is created, valued, and preserved. A key theme in her work is the tension between artistic significance and urban development pressures.
Danielle Doucet is deeply engaged in public heritage advocacy. Since 1995, she has been active in Docomomo Québec, leading preservation efforts for endangered public artworks such as Joseph Iliu’s mural at the Métro Morgan supermarket and Charles Daudelin’s Mastodo fountain sculpture at Viger Square. Her expertise is frequently sought by public institutions, university professors, and journalists.
She has published on artistic controversies involving public art, including the conservation of Gerald Gladstone’s Orbite optique no 2 and the relocation of Jean-Paul Riopelle’s La Joute from the Olympic Park to downtown Montreal. These cases highlight broader issues in heritage policy and public memory.
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Danielle Doucet regularly participates in academic and public discussions on heritage. She advises on university courses and seminars and contributes to public discourse through media engagements. Although she is not listed as supervising graduate students, her applied research and advocacy reflect a commitment to mentoring through practice and collaboration. She is also involved in collaborative research projects focused on urban heritage and the integration of art in architectural environments.
Danielle Doucet is affiliated with the Canada Research Chair in Built Heritage at the Université de Montréal and works closely with the heritage organization Docomomo Québec. These affiliations support her dual role as a scholar and activist in the field of public art preservation.
