Thursday 6th July 2017 09:30 Registration desk open: Tea and coffee on arrival 10:30-11:00 Welcome from the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Keynote Address: David Blockley 11:00-11:45 Reading Bridges: Structure and Meaning Keynote Address: Travis Elborough 11:45-12:30 The Tall Story of A Transatlantic Crossing: How London Bridge Went to America 12:30-13:30 Lunch (1) Bridges of Taiwan followed Connecting Cultures and Stories on the Bridge by (2) Bridges as Industrial Communities Heritage 13:30-15:00 Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge (1) SHY Gwo-Long Shu-yi WANG Yanwei Han Bridge: A Witness of Taiwanese From Segregation to Social Heritage Narratives, a Bridge Vitality Inclusion: Bridging the Difficult for Transformation, Connection 13:30-14:00 Past and Communication Chao-Shiang Li (Patrick) Patrick Fitzgerald Ceri Houlbrook A tale of two bridges in Hutong, Across the Bridge of Hope: Unlocking the Love-Lock Taiwan. The Convergence Crossing divides in an Irish 14:00-14:30 between the industrial past and migration context the commodified present Camilo Contreras Fredric L Quivik Hulya Sonmez Schaap People and coal. The railway Steel Bridges on the Great Plains: The Bridge as a Witness to life, bridge support and witness the Connecting the Desolate Plains Comrade to people and an 14:30-15:00 development of the coalfield with Industrial America, 1880- Essential piece of a city Coahuila, Mexico 1920 15:00-15:30 TEA Bridges as Industrial Heritage Connecting Cultures and Bridge Museums and Visitor Crossing the Ironbridge Communities Centres Gorge 15:30-17:00 Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Room: The Ironbridge Crisitna Matouk Rebecca Burrow Tosh Warwick Roger White Bridge Ojuela, 1898. Mapimí, A Bridge to Nowhere: Building the Bridging the World: Teesside’s Valley of Invention: Bridges 15:30-16:00 Durango, México. Astoria-Megler Bridge bridge-building heritage and the within the Ironbridge Gorge Tees Transporter Bridge Visitor Experience Project Sanja Peter Hisham S. Gabr, Omnia H. Kevin Moore Shane Kelleher Mostafa, Yasmeen ElSemary and Nouran El-Begermy 16:00-16:30 From Älvsborg bridge to Göta The Nouveau rich and the culture The Humber Bridge: A View of the Iron Bridge river bridge, and back of fitting in: Symbols in house engineering triumph and design and the bridging of social cultural icon classes M. William Steele Ndanji Lesetedi and Olivia Richard R. Dion Molefe New Bridges for a New Japan Development, Connecting Places The Bridge Museum: An 16:30-17:00 and Cultures in Southern Africa essential institution for our the Kazungula Bridge Project times Friday 7th July 2017 Bridges in the Urban Context Restoration and Preservation of Historical Perspectives Representations of the Bridge Bridges 10:00-12:00 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Gareth Evans & Rada Beniamino Polimeni Kayla Dettinger Anni Turnbull Djermanovic Perception of ownership of Most Preserving the Historical Bridging the Border Cities: A The Sydney Harbour Bridge: 10:00-10:30 na Adi in Belgrade Structures of Cheonggyecheon History of Windsor and its through the eyes of artists and River: A proposal for the Twentieth-Century Cross- writers restoration of the supyo Bridge Border Relationship Claudine Deom Marcus Jecock and Lucy John Wyatt Greenlee Tony Seaton A cultural landscape of bridges TadcasterJessop Bridge in the aftermath The Bridge to Scotland: From Telford and Stephenson to 10:30-11:00 of Storm Eva, 29 December 2015. Matthew Paris and the Politics Haw's "Brooklyn Bridge": Should we mind the gap? of Mapping Imagined Bridges in Revisiting the Menai Bridges as 13th Century Britain cultural history Ivy Maria Lim & Wu Bing Yi Fu, Hui Zhang Alastair Noble Damian J. Kulash Sheng The Bridges of Puyuan: A Look at The challenge to the conservation ‘Compleating the Union’ and On the Money: Bridge Imagery 11:00-11:30 Bridge-Building and Local of Ancient Bridges: A Lesson from the Construction of Bridges in on Coins Networks in the Town of Puyuan, the Reconstruction of Covered the Post-Culloden Highlands Zhejiang, China Bridges in Taishun, China Furan Cao Helen Maistrou, Irene Efesiou, Bob Daimond Natsuko Akagawa Eleftheria Tsakanika, Maria Balodimou, Margarita Alexiou and Timoleon Kouimtzoglou 11:30-12:00 Research on the National The Historical Stone Bridge of The Menai Strait - Obstacle or The Bridge: embodiment of Iconographies and Cultural Plaka in Greece. Historical, Corridor? pleasure, enlightenment, guilt, Heritage Values Forged by the architectural and constructional agony and death Wuhan Yangtze Great Bridge documentation after the collapse in 2015 12:00-13:00 Lunch Bridges in the Urban Context Restoration and Preservation of Historical Perspectives Symbolism of the Bridge Medieval Stone Bridges Bridges 13:00-14:30 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Room: Tower Bridge Gert Jan Luijendijk Silvia Irene Arroyo Duarte Maria Balodimou William Fulton David Harrison Amsterdam, city of bridges History, conservation and The Network of the 19th c. Bridge of Remembrance: World The Rise and Fall of the 13:00-13:30 maintenance of the colonial Stone Bridges in the Wars and Earthquakes Medieval Stone Bridge King´s bridge of Panama Mountainous area of Zagori, Epirus, North Western Greece Constantin Canavas Judy Jones Jayashree Shamanna and Karen Astwood Bruce Watson Martina Bacarella Misperceptions of bridges Rebuilding Elland Bridge Harrison Ave Bridge: The Life Beyond engineering Heavenly Work on Earth: 13:30-14:00 and death of a small town icon achievement: Heritage New Medieval bridge building as Zealand's recognition of why an act of piety bridges are important Hisham S. Gabr, Aliaa AlSadaty E J Rees Jeffrey L. Beard Danielle Delon Peter McKeague and Lamiaa Shehata Bridges in Historic Areas: The Clifton Suspension Bridge – A Tale of Three Arches: The Bridges of Trinidad and A Review of the evidence for Juxtaposition of Value and The Preservation of a Functional Grosvenor (Chester, UK); Tobago: Land of the English bridge chapels 14:00-14:30 Incongruity Heritage Bridge Union/Cabin John Hummingbird, created (Washington, DC, USA; and Steelband, Calypso and brought Adolphe (Luxembourg, LU) Carnival to London. British Iron bridges built over 100 years ago still service this multicultural nation. 14:30-15:00 Tea Bridges in the Urban Context Restoration and Preservation of World Heritage Bridges Symbolism of the Bridge Bridging the Landscape Bridges 15:00-17:00 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Room: Tower Bridge Ying-Li Peng Win Scutt Kate Lynch Carly Guest Antonia Koukouvelou 15:00-15:30 Urban Transformation and Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct: 'The Remembering the 'Bridge of Bridges are landscape 15:00-15:30 Bridge’s Metaphor in City Reconnecting a Medieval Fortress bridge that joins' Peace' - women's stories of infrastructure elements. A peace, solidarity and feminism method for connecting a bridge with landscape and infrastructure Cezary Bednarski Denis Gojak Krupa Rajangam Amrita Madan and Sindhuree Christopher Tallman and Iyengar John Koepke Bridge as a tool of Urban The timber truss bridges of New Looking forward, looking back: A tale of two bridges,two Gidaazhoganikemin “WE 15:30-16:00 Accupuncture South Wales, Australia – Narratives of hope and glory participates,two cities and two MAKE A BRIDGE”: conservation challenges from the bridge at Hampi World states, Bridges as landscapes of Landscape Architecture Heritage Site, India cultural and political identity Practice as Social Bridge Building Enzo Siviero (on behald of Wojciech Eckert, Bartosz Mark Watson Joost Coté Alexander Hied and Alessandro Stocco) Michalak Christopher Tallman The Golden Horn Metro Crossing The historic steel bridge in Stany. World Heritage Bridges in Steel The Red Bridge: A bridge to Landscape Architecture as 16:00-16:30 Bridge in Istanbul: Between Heritage preservation. Changing - Types Linking Communities national liberation Bridge Between People, Development and Universal the function. Knowledge, and Place Values Enzo Siviero (On behalf of Ian Berger and David Greenfield Mark Langridge Shi Xiuyong Soheila Hadipour Moradi Viviana Martini) and Mozhgan Hadipour Moradi The significance of the bridge in Looking inside Lennox Bridge, New Bridges in a Canadian City Symbols: Cultural Analysis Luristan Cultural Landscape: 16:30-17:00 the historic urban landscape Parramatta, New South Wales World Heritage Site – An of Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge A glance at the xcapital of among the history and future, Architect’s Perspective historical bridges in Iran metaphors and hints, dream and (Sasanian and Early Islamic vision, challenge and wit Periods) 18:00-20:00 Conference Dinner (prior booking required) Saturday 8th July 2017 Architects, Designers and The Bridge as a Metaphor Literary Representations of Stari Most and Bridges of Bridge Builders the Bridge Bosnia and Herzegovina 10:00-12:00 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Ana Porok Flavio Carsalade; Diomira Sian Mitchell Nermina Katkić Faria; Frederico Marinho; Paulo Siffert; Josiane Barbosa 10:00-10:30 Plečnik's Bridges in Ljubljana Building bridges through culture The Poetic Bridge in the The Symbolism of the new Old Nineteenth Century Bridge in Mostar Dennis