Thursday 12th July
08.45 Buses to Terrassa - Meeting point: ETSEIB
Parallel Sessions (mNACTEC, Rambla d’Egara 270, TERRASSA)
If you go to mNACTEC on your own, take the FGC trains from Plaça Catalunya, the S1 line to Terrassa Rambla Station. There is a train every 12-15 min. and the journey takes 40 minutes. The FGC station is on Rambla d’Egara.
09.45 Welcome to the museum
10.00 – 11.30
Room: Diesel
S9 7th Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on Social History of Military Technology (V)
Session Organiser: Dr. Barton Hacker, United States
Session Chair: John Miller, United States
Technology and War Propaganda in World War I Italian Advertising
Loredana Vannacci and Ciro Paoletti, Italy/France
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, United States
Room: Auditori
S6 Functionality of Homes and Their Appliances – Challenges for Design, Technology and Production (I)
Session Organiser: Professor Timo Myllyntaus, Finland
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
Lecturer 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
Room: Narcís Monturiol
S39 Reproducibility and Standardisation
Session organized by the programme committee
Session Chair: Dr. Antoni Roca-Rosell, Spain
“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
Room: Matemàtiques
S21 Robot-Humans and Humanlike Robots
Session organized by the programme committee
Session chair: Dr. Pere Grapí, Spain
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.
Dr. Anna Pujadas Matarín, Spain
Room: Sala de Reunions
S38 Design, Education and Technology
Session organized by the programme committee
Session Chair: PD candidate Jaume Sastre, Spain
“The Goal is the Invention.” – Technical Innovations from Bauhaus Students
Ph.D. candidate Yvonne Blumenthal, Germany
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
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.30
Room: Diesel
S9 7th Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on Social History of Military Technology (VI)
Session Organiser: Dr. Barton Hacker, United States
Session Chair: Margaret Vining, United States
The Military-Scientific Translator
David Zimmerman, Canada
Transforming the American Army After the Cold War
Frank Maas, Canada
The Sinai Field Mission, the Electronic Third Part
Enrico Magnani, Italy/United States
Room: Auditori
S13 Functionality of Homes and Their Appliances – Challenges for Design, Technology and Production (II)
Session Organiser: Professor Timo Myllyntaus, Finland
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
Functionality of Indian Homes and their Societal Settings: Indicators of the Way of Life
Dr. Naresh Sourabh, Finland
Room: Narcís Monturiol
S20 Transport: Steamships, Railroad Technology and Cars
Session organized by the programme committee
Session Chair: Yoel Bergmann, Israel
“Her Model is Beautiful”: Addressing Fears by Design for the First “Steamship” in History.
Mr. John Laurence Busch, United States
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
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
Room: Matemàtiques
S33 Aesthetic Reception of Technology (I)
Session organized by the programme committee
Session Chair: Dr. Antoni Roca-Rosell, Spain
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
Room: Sala de Reunions
S2 Depicting Engineering: Portrayal of the Engineer in the Modern Era (I)
Session Organiser: Dr. Daniel Crespo, Spain
Chairman: Dr. Patrice Bret, France
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
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00
Room: Diesel
S29 Films as Historical Sources
Session organized by the programme committee
Session chair: Alfons Zarzoso, Spain
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
Room: Auditori
S15 Art, Science & Technology for Public Understanding and Media Representation of Technology in XIX-XXI Centuries
Session organiser: Researcher Roman Artemenko, Russia
Session chair: Professor Elena Helerea, Romania
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
Non-Textbook Education: Records, Cinema, Radio, TV and DIY in Soviet System of Enlightenment (1930-1970)
Researcher Roman Artemenko, Russia
Room: Narcís Monturiol
S11 Architectural Transformations in the Information Age
Session organiser: Dr. Ahenk Yilmaz, Turkey
Session chair: Dr. Ahenk Yilmaz, Turkey
“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
Room: Matemàtiques
S33 Aesthetic Reception of Technology (II)
Session organized by the programme committee
Session chair: Professor Ana Cardoso de Matos, Portugal
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
Modernist Architecture and the Rise of the Aesthetic Identity of Technology
Dr. Riccardo Dirindin, Italy
Renewing Traditional Technology
Researcher David López López, Spain; Ph.D. candidate Marta Domènech Rodríguez, Spain
Room: Sala de Reunions
S2 Depicting Engineering: Portrayal of the Engineer in the Modern Era (II)
Session organiser: Dr. Daniel Crespo, Spain
Chairman: Dr. Patrice Bret, France
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
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 19.00
(Attendants will be gathered in two groups A and B. The two activities will be done one after the other)
A. Visit to the mNACTEC (National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia)
B. Walking around an industrial city: Terrassa Heritage
20.30 – 21.10
Flamenco Evening **
Palacio del Flamenco
C/ Carrer de Balmes, 139
08008 Barcelona
On our return from the Congress sessions in Terrassa you will be dropped off at the Palacio de Flamenco in the heart of Barcelona.
** Not included in the registration fee