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Panel 1 National Socialism on Display: Technology, Design, and the Four-Year Plan at Schaffendes Volk
Professor Karen Fiss, United States “Which New Deal? Utopianism and Pragmatism at the 1939 New York World’s Fair”
Professor Robert Kargon, United States “Modernity on Display: The 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan”
Professor Morris Low, Australia “The Appian Way to Modernity: Past Meets Future at Mussolini’s World Fair of Rome (E42)”
Dr. Arthur Molella, United States
Panel 1 Juanelo Turriano, engineer and royal clockmaker. Building a myth
Dr. Jesús Sáenz de Miera, Spain The visual arts and engineers from Filippo Brunelleschi to Juanelo Turriano: clock making and humanistic culture in the shaping of a noble profession
Ph.D. candidate Cristiano Zanetti, Italy The literary portrayal of engineering: public works in sixteenth and seventeenth century chorographic literature
Dr. David García, Spain
Panel 2 Civil engineering: image and identity in early nineteenth century Spain
Dr. Daniel Crespo, Spain Icons of the modern age: nineteenth century engineers and developers
Ph.D. candidate Alfonso Luján, Spain
Architectures and Technologies of Sound Session organiser: Professor Kristen Haring, United States Session chair: Professor Hans-Joachim Braun, Germany Session commentator: Professor Trevor Pinch, United States
Panel 1 Designing the Invisible: The Architecture of Roadside Noise Barriers, 1970-2010
Professor Karin Bijsterveld, Netherlands Building for Telephones in Postwar America
Professor Kristen Haring, United States The Technologies of High Culture: Glenn Gould, Architecture and the Philosophy of Recording
Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep, Canada
Panel 1 Sport as the Politics of Speed: Mapping the ‘New Economics’ of Indian Cricket
Graduate student Vidya Subramanian, India From Pleasure Gardens to Fun Factories: Amusement Parks in the United States
Professor Carroll Pursell, Australia Soccer as Science? What’s so special about FC Barcelona?
Professor Hans-Joachim Braun, Germany
Panel 2 Dangerous Fun: Technology and the Commodification of Risk in Early 20th Century American Amusement Parks
Professor Arwen Mohun, United States Utopian play: The “Dandanah” glass building blocks by Bruno Taut
Dr. Artemis Yagou, Germany The Unfixed. Investigations into the early years of modern technical toys
Lecturer Anika Schleinzer, Germany
Panel 3 From climbing to sport climbing: How technical innovations changed a traditional sport
Dr. Claus Schäfer, Germany Playing Chess by Cable – Telegraphic Chess Playing: On the Interrelation of Technology and Sport in the long Nineteenth Century
Lecturer Simone Müller-Pohl, Germany Let us Drive … Mobility Displayed at Annual Fairs and in Amusement Parks 1830s – 1970s
Dr. Stefan Poser, Germany
Panel 4 Building and Sailing Small Boats for Pleasure
Professor James Williams, United States Technology and Play in Children’s Literature: Non-fiction books for children in the Netherlands, 1945 - 1970
Ph.D. candidate Hilde Harmsen, Netherlands Huizinga and his children: ‘Homo Ludens’ and modern technology from the 1930s to the 1960s in the Netherlands
Professor Dick van Lente, Netherlands
Panel 5 The Art of Model Railroading: Serious Play at the Consumption-Production Junction
Mr. Jeffrey Larrabee, United States The ›Great American Revolution‹. Perception and Bioengineering in the Loop
Dr. Sebastian Vehlken, Germany
Ph.D. candidate Jan Mueggenburg, Germany
Panel 1 Technological catastrophe: the life in the modern risk societies
Professor Gotthard Bechmann, Germany From Chernobyl to Fukushima: technological risks as ethical and social problems
Professor Vitaly Gorokhov, Russia
Mrs. Galina Gorokhova, Russia Comparative analysis of the social and cultural features of the development of the nuclear technology in Russia and in Germany
Professor Vitaly Gorokhov, Germany
Mrs. Constanze Scherz, Germany Is Chernobyl accident regularity or chance?
Professor Natalia Baranovska, Ukraine
Panel 2 Prospects and risks of new technologies: the formation of superhard materials synthesis in Ukraine
Dr. Alla Lytvynko, Ukraine Activities of the Physical Department at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1931 - 1955: historical aspect
Professor Lilia Ponomarenko, Ukraine History of the Chernobyl disaster as social and political Problem
Graduate student Anastasia Gorokhova, Russia
Panel 3 Systemic Risks in the Electric Power Infrastructure?
Dr. Carsten Orwat, Germany Are scientists for the safety of the technological systems responsible?
Professor Hans Lenk, Germany The Big Apple and the Giant Mushroom: Depictions of a Nuclear Attack on New York City, 1945-2012
Dr. Robert Jacobs, Japan
Panel 1 Session chair: Lecturer Artemis Yagou, Greece Detached Cottages, Model Houses and Intelligent Homes: Visions of Housing and Experiences of Reality in 20th Century Finland
Professor Timo Myllyntaus, Finland Finnish Houses for Polish Miners: Importing Ideas on Functional Homes with Prefabricated Buildings in the mid-20th Century
Dr. Slawomir Lotysz, Poland
Professor Timo Myllyntaus, Finland Varieties of Scarcity: Industrial Designers and the East German Transition Economy
Ph.D. candidate Swen Steinberg, Germany
Ph.D. candidate Sylvia Wölfel, Germany
Panel 2 Session chair: Professor Timo Myllyntaus, Finland Gendering Electricity: The Docile Servant
Ph.D. candidate Bahar Emgin, Turkey Domestic Fluorescent: The Technological Illumination of the American Suburbs
Ph.D. candidate Georgina Ruff, United States Impact of Kitchen and Household Appliances on the Everyday Life of Korean Women: From Kimchi Jars to Kimchi Refrigerators
Professor Jung Sook Bae, France Functionality of Indian Homes and their Societal Settings: Indicators of the Way of Life
Dr. Naresh Sourabh, Finland
Panel 1 The Development of Oil Refining in the Paintings
Lecturer Olga Poletaeva, Russia
Professor Eldar Movsumzade, Russia Development of the technologies and technical means for production, transportation and storage of the liquefied natural gas (LNG)
Ph.D. candidate Rim Teregulov, Russia
Professor Urii Dorojkin, Russia International experience and prospects of the sea oil and gas production in Russia
Professor Boris Mastobaev, Russia
Professor Ayrat Shammazov, Russia
Panel 2 Development of methods and technical means for inspection of pipeline transportation
Ph.D. candidate Urii Lisin, Russia Removal of the oil sludge from subsea tanks under the toughening of the ecological requirements
Ms. Anna Lokshina, Russia
Panel 1 Walking through the city, looking for spectacle. Lay perceptions of technology at the 1888 Barcelona International Exhibition
Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan, Spain Animal technologies. Francesc Darder and applied natural history in the Barcelona Zoo around 1900
Dr. Oliver Hochadel, Spain Improving nature. The pursuit of agricultural technologies in Barcelona in the early twentieth century
Ph.D. candidate Laura Valls, Spain
Panel 2 Technological Fun: Thoughts on Amusement Parks and the Exhibitionary Complex in Barcelona (1888-1929)
Ph.D. candidate Jaume Sastre, Spain
Ph.D. candidate Jaume Valentines, Spain Do you know how to light this space? Rational lighting in Barcelona, 1929-1936
Ph.D. candidate Jordi Ferran, Spain Looking for the public: medical clinics in Barcelona around 1900
Dr. Alfons Zarzoso, Spain
Panel 3 The Cerdà Plan for the Extension of Barcelona: A Constructivist Analysis of a Town-planning controversy
Professor Eduard Aibar, Spain Artistic influences in Barcelona’s Urbanization and Industrial Heritage
Mr. eusebi casanelles, Spain
Panel 1 What Was the Trojan Horse?
Harry Rand (US) The Trireme–The Ship That Changed the Ancient World?
Jorit Wintjes (Germany) Keeping the Gun and Nothing Else: Pre-existing “Military” Organization in Kandy and Burma and the Introduction of Firearms.
Michael Charney (UK)
Panel 2 Arms and Armor of Arab Warriors; or, When Artisanship Becomes Art and Technique.
Laila Belhaj (Morocco) The Livre de cannonerie et artifice de feu published by Vincent Sertenas (1561) and Its Technological Milieu
Bert Hall (Canada) The Mediterranean Origins of 18th Century Swedish-Finnish Naval Innovations
Mikko Huhtamies (Finland)
Panel 3 How to Choose the Cadets in Military Schools at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Juan Navarro-Loidi (Spain) A Steel Ring and Its Consequences
Petter Wulff (Sweden) Victorian Innovation? Yankee Enterprise versus English Conservatism in Military Technology
Steven Collins (US)
Panel 4 Nineteenth-Century British Coastal Defenses: The Fear of Invasion, Naval Challenge, and Palmerston’s Follies
Jesse Heitz (UK) The Role of the Confederate and Union Telegraph Systems in the Outcome of the American Civil War
John Miller (US) The Military-Scientific Translator
David Zimmerman (Canada)
Panel 5 Shooting Wells. Geology and Development of Oil Mining Technology
Francesco Gerali (Italy/Mexico) Alfred Nobel's August 1890 letter to the Russian minister of War
Yoel Bergmann (Israel) Nobel’s Dynamite Factory in Bratislava
Nina Bartosova (Slovakia)
Panel 6 The career of an Infernal Lady—Big Bertha
Bruno De Corte (Belgium) Innovative Tactics and Techniques in the Dardanelles Campaign during World War I.
Esat Arslan (Turkey) Technology and War Propaganda in World War I Italian Advertising
Loredana Vannacci and Ciro Paoletti (Italy/France)
Panel 7 Technology, Sectional Interest and Norwegian Air Power 1920–1940
Frode Lindgjeret (Norway). “The Spitfire Is ‘Now an Aeroplane’”: RAF Fighter Command, the Constant-Speed Propeller, and User Innovation
Jeremy R. Kinney (US) Transforming the American Army after the Cold War
Frank Maas (Canada)
Panel 8 The Sinai Field Mission, the Electronic Third Part
Enrico Magnani (Italy/UN) Aid-for-Labor: Civil Engineering and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Scott Alamanach Mikalauskis (US/Thailand) Chivalric Culture and Cyborganism: Tribe and Territory in a Holographic Age of Human Security
Michael A. Budd (US)
Panel 1 Breaks in Line: The Development and Dissemination of Intaglio Prints
Graduate student Jun Nakamura, United States Women, Work, and Worms: The Woodcuts of Dialoghi di M. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo Venetiano sopra l’utili sue inventioni circa la seta
Graduate student Emily Anderson, United States "Virtues and Defects of the European peoples": Choices, Repetitions, and Deliberate Misinterpretations in the Late Colonial Americas
Ph.D. candidate Joseph Hartman, United States
Panel 1 “The Art and Craft” of the Digital: The First Machine Age, Technology and Digital Architecture
Dr. Ahenk Yilmaz, Turkey The Metamorphosis of Tectonics: Towards a Digitized Frampton
Graduate student Arzu Beyza Yanar, Turkey Digital Technologies and Architectural Education: The Concept of Biomimesis in The 4th Year Architectural Design Studio
Graduate student Irem Cabbaroglu, Turkey The effects of New Technologies on the Intersections of Arts and Architecture
Graduate student Isil Kazaz, Turkey
Panel 1 Is there a national style in Spanish engineering? The case of ‘industrial engineering’
Lecturer Antoni Roca-Rosell, Spain An example of multidisciplinary engineering education: the Barcelona Royal Military Academy of Mathematics (1720-1803)
Lecturer Maria Rosa Massa-Esteve, Spain Mechanics and Experimental Physics in Spanish technical training in the first half of the 19th century: the Barcelona’s case
Lecturer Carles Puig-Pla, Spain
Panel 1 Last in first out. How the Telegraph brought to international organization before Post and Trains
Dr. Simone Fari, Italy
Dr. Gabriele Balbi, Italy
Professor Giuseppe Richeri, Switzerland Why did a public telephone system fail in Spain?
Professor Angel Calvo, Spain On Bell's telephone patents in Europe
Professor Jesús Sánchez Miñana, Spain Urban telephone networks in the Basque Country: significant differences in the three provinces, 1881-1908
Ph.D. candidate Begoña Villanueva García, Spain
Panel 1 Introducing new norms and new technology to the Danish Housewives 1900-1960
Researcher Jytte Thorndahl, Denmark How is the Public prepared for technical Innovations
Dr. Colin A. Hempstead, United Kingdom Images of the Engineer in American Popular Culture in the 20th Century
Professor Mark Clark, United States Non-textbook education: records, cinema, radio, TV and DIY in soviet system of enlightenment (1930-1970)
Researcher Roman Artemenko, Russia
Panel 1 Forest, arts and culture
Mr. Pekka Virtanen, Finland What are technical museums about? The semiotics of technological display at the New York Museum of Science and Industry (1927-1950)
Ph.D. candidate Jaume Sastre-Juan, Spain The Quest for the Technical Soul of the Nation: Technological Displays and Catalan Nationalism (1909-1939)
Ph.D. candidate Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, Spain
Panel 2 Displaying Technological Knowledge in a Museum
Mr. Kimmo Antila, Finland Machines and ideas. Three interpretations of the Portsmouth block making machines and what they say and don’t say about technology.
Ms. Katariina Mauranen, United Kingdom
Panel 1 A review of the literature on the history of the telephone, 1876-2010
Ph.D. candidate Villanueva Garcia Begoña, Spain Did there exist a Pythagorean at the Fountainhead of the “Taulas” of Menorca? (Monuments of the Talayotic culture dating from V—IV B.C. )
Dr. Vicente Ibañez Orts, Spain The railroad industry and its heritage in the cultural landscape of Uruguay
Professor Carola Romay, Uruguay
Researcher Daniel Primucci, Uruguay
Researcher Virginia Etchevarren, Uruguay
Panel 1 Light and science. Proposal for the reading of two engravings of Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae of Athanasius Kircher
Dr. Ana Paula Sanchez
Drawing machines and drawing reconstruction
Professor Fernando Fadón Salazar
Ph.D. candidate Francisco Jose Saiz
Ph.D. candidate Jose Enrique Cerón Hoyos The choreographies of household technologies in the first animated cartoons
Researcher Hugo Palmarola
Panel 1 Examination of Cultural Characters of Korean Train Interiors : with Emphasis on Leading Design Guidelines based on Cultural Theory
Graduate student Sora Lee-Remond, France Abolition of Architectural Language or Release of a New One
Dr. Souad Sassi Boudemagh, Algeria The art of the war: tradition and innovation in the iconographic representation of Alentejo fortresses (XVII-XVIII centuries)
Professor Antónia Fialho Conde, Portugal
Panel 1 The Sublime and Technology: steamship travelling across the Atlantic
Ph.D. candidate Dagmar Bellmann, Germany “Her Model is Beautiful”: Addressing Fears by Design for the First “Steamship” in History.
Mr. John Laurence Busch, United States On the rails from ancient times - Busteni Paper Factory's Narrow Gauge Electric Railway
Mr. Andrei Berinde, Romania Strategic monitoring as an opportunity to preserve cultural heritage exemplified by the track harp and historically significant technical monuments in front of Leipzig Main Station, Germany
Professor Burkhard Pahl, Germany
Panel 2 Engineer’s schemes are also design : the shape of the Paris’ Métro from the 1860’s
Lecturer Pascal Desabres, France Technology users as amateur mechanics: The case of the construction and decoration of extemporaneous automobiles in WWII and postwar Greece
Ph.D. candidate Sofia Alexia Papazafeiropoulou, Greece Human evolution and the car - Too much power for the legs and not enough for the brain?
Professor Hermann Knoflacher, Austria
Dr. Harald Frey, Austria
Panel 1 From resuscitation dummies to patient simulators: When technology tries to look human
Professor Constantin Canavas, Germany The Art of the Robot
Dr. Julie Wosk, United States Human‐robot / Robot‐human. Processes of cultural change brought about by digital revolution. A new era in the history of mankind.
Professor Anna Pujadas Matarín, Spain
Panel 1 Made of pieces. Sheet metal processing in Russia at the end of the 19th Century.
Ph.D. candidate Ekaterina Nozhova, Switzerland Exported Styles – The Early Production and Distribution of Cast Iron Building Components
Professor Axe Sowa, Germany Informal Networks of Empire: the Case of Scottish Architectural Ironwork in Argentina
Ph.D. candidate Lucia Jurarez, Spain Progressive dies. History and evolution
Lecturer Enrique Ceron, Spain
Dr. Fernando Fadon, Spain Materials II: Plastics
Panel 1 The definition of the plastic arts: Technique versus Habitus
Dr. Adi Efal, Germany Imitation and Originality in Synthetic Plastics
Professor Robert Friedel, United States Electrical and Chemical engineering in Portugal from 1855 onwards
Professor Maria Elvira Callapez, Portugal
Professor Ana Paula Silva, Portugal A future made of plastics? – exploration of a Sixties Design discourse
Graduate student Tina Thiel, Austria
Panel 1 Regional approaches to the industrial heritage: the Ural's case.
Researcher Anatoly Kurlaev, Russia Hydroelectric heritage in Valtellina. Understanding the local historical interaction between technical development, architecture and landscape.
Ph.D. candidate Francesco Carlo Toso, Italy Between Memory and Goodbye. How theater works with the remains of coal industry in the former GDR and its impact on local society
Ph.D. candidate Torben Ibs, Germany From company museums to the Roman gods: new perspectives in the protection of industrial heritage in Italy.
Researcher Astrid D'Eredità, Italy
Panel 2 Industrial heritage reuse - authenticity versus commodification
Ph.D. candidate Anica Tufegdzic, Serbia and Montenegro Industrial Heritage Sites as Neoliberal Spaces of Ordering
Dr. Duygun Erim, Turkey
Ph.D. candidate Gökce Öcal, Turkey Presentation of Industrial Heritage in the Ural Region
Graduate student Nadezda Solonina, Russia
Panel 1 Power and Glory: A report on the rise and fall of the Australian made portable electric drill.
Ph.D. candidate Berto Pandolfo, Australia You have to know your blood pressure value! Medical Technical Innovations between Research and the Market.
Dr. Michael Martin, Germany
Professor Heiner Fangerau, Germany Podbielniak – a centrifuge, that made the world head-spin
Dr. Slawomir Lotysz, Poland
Panel 2 First instruments for the Helsinki School of technology 1850
Dr. Panu Nykänen, Finland Pocket and field instruments in the past. Some examples of the collection of scientific instruments of the Physics Faculty of the University of Barcelona
Professor Santiago Vallmitjana, Spain Spinning Gyroscopes - the 'go' of operative understanding
Ph.D. candidate Lina Hakim, United Kingdom
Panel 1 Experiencing Silence – Are there room for technological sounds?
Dr. Outi Ampuja, Finland Shaping Music in Space: The role of technology in space related music and sound art
Dr. Martha Brech, Germany Technology of iconography in Buddhists caves of Eastern Turkestan. On example of musical instruments.
Dr. Sanat Kibirova, Russia Building Boom: Technology, Luxury, and the Sound Explosion of the 1970s
Professor Susan Schmidt, United States
Panel 1 Maximilien Luce’s Neo-Impressionist Paintings of Charleroi Blast Furnaces: Aestheticizing Technology in Anarchist Thought
Ph.D. candidate Corina Weidinger, United States Dalí, Le Corbusier and the Presence of Technology
Dr. Simon Weir, Australia Production Lines: the fetishisation of industry in the architectures of Max Ernst
Dr. Michael Chapman, Australia
Panel 2 Science Towns in Russia: A Dichotomy of Technological Drive and Societal Constrains. The Case of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok
Professor Evgeny Vodichev, Russia
Lecturer Ekaterina Zhimuleva, Russia The Social Function of the Technological Aesthetic in Luxembourg's Illustrated Press, 1933-1940
Dr. Anne-Marie Millim, Luxembourg The printing Technology and the Cultural Role of Prints. Case Study: Historical Images of nowadays Romanian Cities
Dr. Anda-Lucia Spânu, Romania
Panel 3 Watermill Technologies in Paintings of Ancient China and Ancient Europe
Lecturer Xiaolei Shi, China Drawing Machines: Illustrations of Steam Engines and the Construction of Industrial Culture in Britain, 1820-1840
Ph.D. candidate Courtney Salvey, United Kingdom Science and technology representations in paintings of Prado's Museum in Madrid
Mr. Joan Munt, Spain
Panel 4 The demise of the Darwinian struggle in popular zoological illustration around 1900 and the peaceful power of photography
Dr. Alexander Gall, Germany New Vistas, New Visions: The Technological Sublime and the Problem of Landscape in Contemporary Art Photography
Lecturer Kara Hammond Larrabee, United States Lost Technology
Dr. Marta Jecu, Portugal
Dr. Jose Manuel Gomes Pinto
Panel 1 The Roots of Computer Graphics: A patent Literature Analysis
Mr. Eduardo Perez Molina, Netherlands The emergence of computer graphics in 3D in France, between creation and industry.
Ph.D. candidate Cécile Welker, France Desktop kitch or mirrors of Self? Background images in visual cultural studies
Professor Maunu Häyrynen, Finland Artworks‘ and the point of no return in the history of electronics. The emergence of computer aided computer design.
Ph.D. candidate Peter Koval, Germany
Panel 1 American Grain Elevators, Factories and Modern Mass-Production or: European Architectural Techno-Determinism towards planning the Fordist City
Ph.D. candidate Sophie Hochhaeusl, United States Old Technologies, Agrarian Reform, and Social Efficiency: Spain 1900-1950
Dr. Santiago M. Lopez, Spain
Professor Ricardo Robledo, Spain "An Idyllic Workers’ Community" – Alvar Aalto, Finnish Industry, and the Emerging Town Centre Concept in Regional Planning of the 1940s
Dr. Markku Norvasuo, Finland
Panel 2 Road design and urban planning in Athens at the turn of the 20th century: in search of a shortcut to modernization.
Ph.D. candidate Evangelia Chatzikonstantinou, Greece Architecture Between Ideology and Technology – Building Socialist Modernism in Former Yugoslavia
Ms. Dragana Konstantinovic, Serbia and Montenegro
Panel 1 History of Technology and the Cinema: an experience of reproduction of scientists images by means of the screen
Professor Vasily Borisov, Russia Roman Hydraulic Technology in the Cinema
Lecturer Francisco Javier Pérez de la Cruz, Spain A Short Documentary Film ‘ZAGREB U SVJETLU VELEGRADA’ (‘Zagreb in a Metropolitan Light’): an Urban Satire of the 1930’s as a Historical Source
Mr. Goran Arcabic, Croatia
Panel 1 A Medieval Industrial Revolution in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the City of Riga in the Russian Empire
Professor Janis Langins, Canada
The Polytechnic Education of Architects and Civil Engineers in the 19th Century – The Role of Arts, Humanities and Science at the Zurich Polytechnic School
Dr. Torsten Meyer, Switzerland
Ph.D. candidate Christoph Rauhut, Switzerland
Dr. Knut Stegmann, Switzerland How technology is made visible. Technology standards promoted by the Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios: their influence on the teaching curricula
Ph.D. candidate Leonor Gonzalez, Spain
Dr. Victor Guijarro, Spain
The teaching of arts applied Industry in Portugal. From Industrial Aesthetics to Design
Professor Ana Cardoso de Matos, Portugal
Professor Helena Souto, Portugal
Panel 2 SPIRU HARET (1851-1912) – From a Masterly Doctoral Thesis to the Reform of Romanian Education
Mrs. Eufrosina Otlacan, Romania The origins of the technical chemistry studies in Spain.
Graduate student Ignacio Suay Matallana, Spain The Role of Leisure Education in Adapting Traditional Society with Scientific and Technological Development
Professor Abbas Ardekanian, Iran
Mr. Abbas Hassani, Iran Technologies of Buildings
Panel 1 The Art of Ventilation in Barcelona in the Second Half of the XIX Century
Dr. Francesc X. Barca-Salom, Spain Development of timber and steel-timber trusses in Italy (1800-1950)
Ph.D. candidate Emanuele Zamperini, Italy The Beauty of a Beam. The Continuity of Joan Torras’s Beam of Equal Strength in the Work of his Disciples: Guastavino, Gaudí and Jujol
Lecturer Ramon Graus, Spain
Lecturer Helena Martín Nieva, Spain
Panel 2 The Architecture and Decoration of Ottoman Mosques: Religious Devotion, Art, or Technology?
Dr. Ahmed Wahby, Egypt Balloon Frame in Chile, a foreign integrated expression in our landscape
Professor Marcela Pizzi, Chile Renewing traditional technology
Researcher David López López, Spain
Ph.D. candidate Marta Domènech Rodríguez, Spain
Panel 1 “Art into Design, or how the Technicity of Design complements and incites the Thingliness of Art”
Dr. Mark Titmarsh, Australia AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO and GERMÁN SIERRA: Two Points of View of Postindustrial Society
Ph.D. candidate Carlos Gámez, Spain Views of early 20th century visionary cities through the lens of auto-mobility.
Ph.D. candidate Areti Sakellaridou, Greece
Panel 2 Embodiment/Temporalization: Rethinking the Architectural Image
Dr. Lutz Robbers, Germany Rethinking urban space through art and technology: the case of Davide Boriani
Ph.D. candidate Alessandra Acocella, Italy Rethinking urban space through art and technology: the case of François Morellet
Graduate student Alessandro Gallicchio, Italy
Panel 1 The complex relations between Homo Technicus Technologicus and Homo Aestaticus in Romania in the historical period 1945-1989/1990. Some maximal / limit case studies
Professor Elena Helerea, Romania
Professor Liviu Alexandru Sofonea, Romania Cultural buildings between technology and art: Casa da Música at the frontier of iconicity
Ph.D. candidate Joana Ramalho, Portugal
Dr. José Luís Garcia, Portugal Aesthetics and construction in industrial production:architecture as a tool for business communication
Researcher Antonio Monte, Italy
Professor Raffaella Maddaluno, Italy
Panel 2 The demonisation of the Eiffel Tower. The difficulty of introducing an industrial culture, in which the worlds of technology and the arts come together, in 19th-century Paris.
Professor Robert BELOT, France Representation Transformed: Reading The Change from Architectural Periodicals
Researcher Özlem Altun, Turkey
Researcher Betül Orbey, Turkey
Researcher Nihan Gürel, Turkey Modernist architecture and the rise of the aesthetic identity of technology
Dr. Riccardo Dirindin, Italy
Panel 1 The Keeling Curve: Causes and Consequences of Global Warming
Dr. Anthony N. Stranges, United States Exploration of the industrial use of solar energy in the nineteenth century.
Ph.D. candidate Nelson Arellano, Chile The Contested Origins of the Biodigester: “Natural” Histories of Energy Technology, Colonial Histories of Waste
Graduate student Nicole Labruto, United States
Panel 1 Invisible Mechanisms of the Modern Interior: Electric Lighting and the Expression of the American "Machine Age" Aesthetic
Lecturer Margaret Maile Petty, New Zealand Merging Design and Culture in New York City's Chrysler Building
Dr. John Stranges, United States Intersections: Office Furniture Design - Technologies - Aesthetics
Dr. Uber Terrence, United States
Panel 2 To buy or not to buy
Ph.D. candidate Doreen Donovan, Australia Consumer society: the role of design
Ph.D. candidate Ingrid Moura Wanderely, Brazil
Professor Maria Cecília Loschiavo Dos Santos, Brazil Zen and Industrial Design? Visions of Japanese Technology during World War II and Beyond
Dr. Daqing Yang, Japan
Panel 1 T113 History of public works conservation and restoration in Spain
Dr. Daniel Crespo Delgado, Spain T131 Building A Multi-Level Prussian Ruhr, 1898-1928
Dr. Edmund N Todd, United States T237 Public Spaces of Land Road Infrastructure in Imperial Russia: Planning, Building, and Use. 1820-50s
Dr. Aleksandra Bekasova, Russia T274 From the Telegraph to Automated Messages – A History on the Convergence and Integration of Communication and Service Infrastructures
Ph.D. candidate Carina Lopes, Portugal
Panel 1 Gilbert Simondon and the evolution of technical objects
Ph.D. candidate Bogdan Dragos, United Kingdom Global trade networks, competition, and the development of a European system of invention privileges.
Graduate student Marius Buning, Netherlands Teams, Tools and Expertise: Technological Innovation in the Italian Packaging Industry, 1960-1998
Dr. Matteo Serafini, Italy
Panel 2 Technologies of thermal comfort to transform spatial patterns of a nation, 1955-1980: Turkish Iron Casting Co. and Aygaz gas delivery network
Ph.D. candidate Gokhan Ersan, United States
Technological momentum reconsidered. A Nobel Prize in chemistry and its background.
Professor Bo Sundin, Sweden
Panel 1 "The Goal is the Invention." - Technical Innovations from Bauhaus Students
Ph.D. candidate Yvonne Blumenthal, Germany The parallel worlds of technology and architecture
Dr. Ted Cavanagh, Canada Pioneer institutions of industrial design in Portugal (1960-74): the Industrial Design Nucleus of the National Institute of Industrial Research
Professor Maria Helena Souto, Portugal
Panel 1 The factory object to the test of reproducibility (1750-1880): rupture industrial, economic and cultural
Ph.D. candidate Millet Audrey Patrizia, France The Master at the Royal Mint: How much money did Newton save Britain?
Dr. Ari Belenkiy, Canada "Notes on research into standardisation in Japan at the beginning of the industrial age, 1880s∼1950s"
Dr. Anne Gossot, France The machines in the production processes of the agro-food industry From the models of the proto industry to the early patents
Researcher Antonio Monte, Italy
Estonian Technical Schools in Germany after the Second World War
Dr. Vahur Mägi, Estonia
Listening and Creating: The significance of the radio and the sewing machine in the Greek household culture (1955-1965).
Dr. Johannis Tsoumas, Greece
Cultural impacts of mining industry in Atacama desert, Chile and Lausitz region, Germany. Proposal for a documentary
Ph.D. candidate Torben Ibs, Germany
The Effect of Using Industrial Equipment on Handicraft Workshops (Special Case: Woodcarving)
Ms. Nazanin Akbarian Dehaghani, Iran
Ms. Helianeh Malekipour, Iran
Ms. Fatemeh Safikhani, Iran
Ms. Zahra Alikhani, Iran
Assistant Prof.Hassan Sadeghi Naeini (PhD), Iran
Toledo´s Water Supply: Roman Approach as the Origin of the Final Solution
Lecturer Francisco Javier Pérez de la Cruz, Spain
The role of workshop equipment of universities in theses of industrial design students (a case study among some universities of Iran, Tehran)
Ms. Nasim Haghighi, Iran
Ms. Sara Rezaei, Iran
Ph.D. candidate Hasan Sadeghi naeini, Iran
Ecological Responsi(ve)bility
Professor Bradley Cantrell, United States
Professor Frank Melendez, United States
Technology and Design in the evolution of Industrial Bent Wood Procedures.
Researcher Julio Vives Chillida, Spain
New materials in jewellery: an approach to consumers through new technological and symbolic resources.
Ph.D. candidate Andrea Medina Gómez, Colombia
Dr. Bernabé Hernandis Ortuño, Spain
Ph.D. candidate José Rafael González Díaz, Venezuela