14.00 – 15.00

Short presentations (Chair: Jaap Nieweg, Chair of the board, Foundation Mobiele Collectie Nederland, MCN)
Paul Smith (Ministry of Culture, Paris): ‘Mobile heritage in France: Policy and practice’
Arjen Kok (Institute for Cultural Heritage ICN, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science): ‘"It ain’t the meat (it’s the motion);" Some remarks on the cultural value of transport heritage’
Gijs Mom (European Centre of Mobility Documentation ECMD): ‘Transporting experiences: Five years of gestation of the idea of a Virtual Mobility Museum.’

15.00 – 15.45

Round Table Discussion: Paul Smith, Arjen Kok, Gijs Mom, Marie Nisser (TICCIH), Garth Wilson (National Science Museum, Ottawa, Canada), Colin Divall (National Railway Museum, York, UK), Max Popma (Mobiele Collectie Nederland, MCN), Peter Nijhof (Dutch National Service for Archaeology, Cultural Landscape and Built Heritage (RACM))

15.45 – 16.00

Break

The Dutch Virtual Mobility Museum

16.00 – 16.30

Short presentation of Jaap Nieweg (Chair of the board, Foundation Mobiele Collectie Nederland, MCN) and handover of the VMM prototype to Mr. Bethlehem (Alderman for Culture, City of Helmond).

16.30 – 16.45

Short response from Mr. Bethlehem.

Keynote address:
David Gartman, ‘The History and Future of Automotive Fetishism’

Parallel sessions 1

Railway world heritage I
Chair: Paul van Heesvelde

Welsh railways
Chair: Colin Divall

Meanderings
Chair: Sjoerd van der Wal

Terrorism & War
Chair: Drew Whitelegg

Trams versus buses
Chair: Luisa Sousa

Michel Cotte and Marie-Noelle Polino

Dudley Clark

Marisa Rechenberg

Marine Lericolais

Ian Gray

Why are mountain trains a common heritage?: the Train Jaune in Pyrenees, France

Progression, Mobility and ‘Career’ on a Welsh Railway, 1880-1914

Flâneries over the internet and the dreamlands

Transportation Infrastructures and Terrorism: Interactive Evolutions through The 20th Century

Trams versus Buses: the construction of conflict over urban transportation equipment

Guenter Dinhobl

Ian Carter

Bart Verspagen

Mensah Kofi Samson

Arnaud Passalacqua

The coming of Railways as UNESCO World heritage

Blood on the Tracks: Rebuilding the Welsh Highland Light Railway

The Spatial Connectivity by Tram and Railway of Municipalities in the Netherlands during the Pre-WWII Period

Transporting war – A study of North-Easthern Ghana

Heritage celebration and public space design: the cases of Paris bus and tram networks

Parallel sessions 2

Railway world heritage II
Chair: Guenter Dinhobl

Welcome on board?
Chair: Peter Lyth

Tourism & socialism
Chair: Heike Wolter

African mobility
Chair: Bruce Pietrykowski

Highway and motorway design
Chair: Mathieu Flonneau

Alberto M. Carreno

Gregory Votolato

Adelina Oana Stefan

Ntewusu S. Aniegye

Rodrigo Booth

Heritage of connectivity/ interrelationship: the movement of peoples and the world heritage list

Round the Bend: Bendy Buses and the end of Public Transport.

Guidebooks and the construction of “holiday sites” in Socialist Romania during the 1960s-1980s

From cattle ranch to lorry park: a social history of Accra tudu lorry park 1920 to recent times

The Pan-American Highway and Latin American road modernization during the 1920s. A vision from the south

Ogris Kerstin

Jochen Eisenbrand

Sergei Zhuk

Sebastiaan Soeters

Julian Greaves

Making History at a World Heritage railway: The Sudbahn Museum

Furnishing ‘a huge, inelastic pickle.’ A Short History of Aircraft Interior Design from the 1920s to the Present

‘Shocking Blue and Nationalism,’ or the Ideological Problems of Advertising the International Tourism in the Soviet Tourist Agencies during the Brezhnev Era,1964-1984

Lost in Translation: The Motor Vehicle and the Making of Tamale, 1907-1939

British Road Policy Before the Second World War: A Case of Academic Underinvestment?

Agrawal Rajesh

Marcus Funck

Heike Wolter and Patrick Benoit

Jan-Bart Gewald

Jonathan Winkler

"Managing the World Heritage Sites of the Great Indian Railways

Customer Treatment in Eastern European Airlines

Informing and Propagandising – Promoting tourist regions and centres of the GDR

Hot and Bothered in the Jungles of Central Africa: The Lake Tanganyika Naval Expedition, Portage Labour and Steam Transport, 1914 – 1918

The role of user benefit in deciding to build motorways in Britain

Kilian T. Elsasser

Hans Dienel

Mateusz Józef Hartwich

Gordon Pirie

Laurel L. Cornell

St. Gotthard railway line – An UNESCO world heritage site?

Before boarding: treatment of waiting customers in German railways and airlines in comparative perspective, 1945-90

A communist and national re-invention of tourism in the Karkonosze mountains, 1945-1970

Automobility in Colonial Africa

How Did Roads in the United States Come to Be So Large? An Analysis of the Person on Foot from the Viewpoint of the AASHTO Road Designer, 1954-1990.

Parallel sessions 3

Roads & regulation
Chair: Mathieu Flonneau

On the waterfront
Chair: Garth Wilson

Designers and users of streets and roads
Chair: Clay McShane

Designing mobility systems
Chair: Richard Vahrenkamp

Tuija Aarnio

R.Choiejit/R. Teungfung

Daniel Flueckiger

Martin Schiefelbusch

The First Traffic Lights as a Symbol of a Modern City in 1957, Turku, Finland

Changing transport’s roles: an exploitation of local tourism development in case of the Waterfront communities in Bangkok

Better Roads for Users: The case of Berne 1800–1850.

The “emotional attractiveness” of public and private transport and the role of design

Gonçalo R. Gonçalves

Todd F. Carney

Jørgen Burchardt

David Stewart-David

Street clashes: traffic policing in the interwar Lisbon

Better Late than Never: The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and Canal Transporta-tion in the United States, 1890 – 1913

The design of roads as a craft: The role of research, experiments and experiences in road construction from 1880-1960

Kept in Their Place: How the Design of Transport Systems contrived Unequal Waiting

Gyula Virag

Arthur Donovan

Jo Guldi

Hilary Graingers

From Kossuth Bridge to Stalin Bridge, Politicisation of infrastructure in the Sovietized Hungary (1946-1950)

Containerization, mobility history and cultural heritage in the ‘liquid world’ of globalization

The Road to Rule: The Expansion of the British road network, 1725-1848

The final journey: Transport and cremation in Britain

Parallel sessions 4

Designing safety
Chair: Sjoerd van de Wal

Design and desire
Chair: Peter Lyth

Culture & commemoration
Chair: Corinne Mulley

Designing time & space I
Chair: Di Drummond

Marine Moguen-Toursel

Olle Hagman

Bruce Pietrykowski

Asta Von Buch

An Institution Regulating Safety Issues and transforming car design accordingly at the European Level: The Case-Study of EuroNCAP (European New Car Assessment Program)

Making Differences. On the Appeal of SUVs and EFVs.

‘Different Roads’ Automobiles for the Next Century: Revisiting the 1999 Museum of Modern Art Exhibit

Snap-Shots of Transport History in Railway Station Art

Steve Bernardin

John Wanberg

Garth Wilson

David Bán

Crashing Science into Politics: Reframing Automobile Safety for the Consumer,1960-1965

Personalized Culture: The History and Culture of Customized Automobiles

Designing Meaning : The Case of CN 6400

The Railway Station: Junction of the Design and the Human Researches

Jameson Wetmore

Pieter Neirinckx

Filippo Nieddu and Vittorio Marchis

Ralf Roth

Building a Better Air Bag: the continuing Search for a Technical Fix

Belgian Railway Posters 1833-1985

Running Shapes. The presence of innovative Italian car design beside the"big names"

Iconography and Architecture of Central Railway Stations in the Nineteenth Centrury

Parallel sessions 5

Designing travel in the 19th century
Chair: Corinne Mulley

Designing identity
Chair: Drew Whitelegg

National motorisation
Chair: Jameson Wetmore

Designing time & space II
Chair: Bruce Pietrykowski

Paul Dobraszczyk

Clay McShane and Sandra Swart

Eva Lindgren

Peter Lyth

Contesting ‘Fraudulent Space’: Information Design for London’s Cab Passengers, 1832-1914

Designing Equids in South Africa and North America

Driving from the centre to the periphery?
An Empirical Study of the Diffusion of Private Cars and Private Car Ownership in Sweden 1950-2000 with focus on 1960-1975

‘Robin Hood on wheels: speed, tourism and the British heritage industry’.

Mike Esbester

Anne Wealleans

José Barros Rodrigues and M.Luisa Sousa

Lung Hsing Chu

Designing Time, Contesting Time: The Design & Use of Nineteenth Century Transport Timetables

The Changing Face of British National Identity: the Interior Design of Ocean Liners

The myth of the Portuguese automobile: Dreams, projects and causes of failure

Invisible Heritage: The Image of the Ximen Square: A View from the Public

Di Drummond

Sjoerd van der Wal

Bård Toldnes

Charissa Terranova

Railway Space(s) and the Creation of New Forms of Nationhood in Britain 1830-1900

National design styles stereotypes, traditions and strategies

The automobile on ice and snow – Domestication of the automobile in Norway 1912-1926

Mobile Perception and the Double Aperture: Conceptualism, the Car, and Urban Sprawl

Round table (moderator: Timo de Rijk)
Penny Sparke (Dean of the Design Faculty at Kingston University, London, UK)
Anne Wealleans (Professor Design History at Kingston University, London, UK)
Marcus Funck (Visiting Assistant Professor of History at York University, Toronto, Canada)
David Gartman (Professor of Sociology at the University of South Alabama, USA)
Gregory Votolato (Professor of Design at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College)

15.30 – 16.15

Interview of Penny Sparke and Gregory Votolato (interviewer: Gijs Mom)

Parallel sessions 6

Colonial roads & railways
Chair: Mike Esbester

Moving pictures
Chair: Jameson Wetmore

Metropolitain railways
Chair: Ralf Roth

Imaginary mobility
Chair: Bård Toldnes

Tokunbo Ayoola

Alec Badenoch and Frank Schipper

Roberto Cavallo

Gijs Mom

In the Hands of Receivership? Management of the Nigerian Railway by Rail India Technical and Economic Services, 1979 – 1982

Moving Pictures for a Fixed Purpose?
Mobility, Marshall & Movies
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Entangled with the city: the metropolitan railways

‘The song of the conquered distance’: literature, aggression and "flight" in early Dutch automobilism (1900 – 1914)

Erich De Wald

G. Vermeer

Catherine Bertho Lavenir

The development of a road culture in late colonial Vietnam

Amsterdam: the Railway and the Waterfront

Feelings, emotions, and mechanics : the automobile travel of a French Canadian woman through France in 1909